Stephen Schaf

With a career that has been varied, Stephen brings over 25 years of high-level leadership experience, design intuition, and creative mentorship with a penchant for digital expertise. Beneficial to any design problem, he brings real-life agency experience where he has been a creative director in several positions. He also envisioned, started, and ran his own successful design studio start up. He has also taught in various capacities within higher education institutions for over 20 years. This range of expertise has not only allowed him to build on his passions for mentoring and cultivating the creative process, but also affords a unique ability to help clients and to guide other creative souls to find what it takes to successfully maneuver the creative process — an often arduous and overwhelming task. Coupled with an MFA degree in Interaction Design, Schaf’s expertise brings together a strong bench of unique, industry-standard capabilities, including those gleaned from envisioning and starting the Indianapolis Contemporary, formerly Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (iMoCA). As with all endeavors, he employs his start-up experience to guide business-mindedness with an entrepreneurial perspective.