Steve is an experienced creative marketing professional with over 20 years of experience. He has consistently implemented successful marketing campaigns from initial concept through execution. He is known as an innovative leader who is passionate about marketing and contributing to organizational success. Steve has strong communication, relationship building, and leadership skills and has managed marketing programs and budgets for various organizations.

1. Steve Harrison
Experienced Marketing and Art Director
416 459 9078. stevemharrison@gmail.com
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About Steve
Steve is a career creative marketing professional with a proven track record of consistently implementing a variety of
projects and campaigns from initial concept through to successful execution. He is a high energy and innovative
results-oriented leader recognized for innovative tactics and strategies. He has consistently demonstrated expertise in
competitively positioning brands, products and services.
Proven successful in conceptualizing, developing and orchestrating internal and external marketing initiatives to
support national and international organizations and corporations, he is known as a team builder with strong problem
solving skills coupled with a passion for marketing with a commitment to contribute to an organizations bottom line.
Steve has excellent communications and interpersonal skills with a strong ability to create and maintain partnerships
and stakeholder relations. He is a team leader and a contagious ambassador with strong promotional skills and a wide
variety of disciplines to provide a full spectrum of marketing services.
Highlights
 Over 20 years’ experience developing and managing of all facets of marketing and communication programs.
 Extensive experience with building and developing brands by leveraging multiple marketing platforms, including
online strategies, social media, fundraising, sponsorships, government funding, and special events.
 Experienced financial management of marketing resources and budgets, including effective adherence to budgets.
Demonstrated creativity in multiple approaches to fundraising.
 Successfully achieved and maintained government funding 8 years in a row.
 Strong people manager; ability to rally resources that report both directly or indirectly
 Exceptional relationship management and communication skills
 My Personal Philosophy: “Deliver exceptional results, be kind, and have fun”
Work Experience
8 Blocks North Inc. (1991 to present) Owner, Creative Director and President
A small agency dedicated to Marketing and Communication disciplines
Eight Blocks North Inc. was founded over 20 years ago in Toronto Canada. Its success is a direct result of core
principles to provide strategic, results-oriented creative marketing solutions, and the ability to remain creative, evolve,
and remain relevant and leading edge through change in an evolving marketing profession.
A partial list of our clients include The Hudson Bay Company, Upper Canada Lager, The Toronto Blue Jays, The Ontario
Service Safety Alliance, WSIB, National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA), Carlsberg, Shoppers Drug Mart,
LCBO, IKEA, Brookfield, The MOSTT Financial Software solution, are a few client highlights to have the pleasure of
serving over the past years.
8BN strategically integrated services include traditional medias, software, web, video editing and sales promotions,
providing services that offer a wide range of expertise at a fraction of the cost.
Marketing Director and Product Development
HUDSON BAY COMPANY AND NHLPA

2. Steve Harrison
Experienced Marketing and Art Director
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Concept, design, manufacture, import and marketing of a collector hockey stick promotion co-branded between the
Hudson Bay Company the oldest retailer in North America and the National Hockey League Players Association the
union representing all NHL players and Alumni.
From concept to prototype to full design and fulfillment of a limited edition birch retro hockey sticks silk screened and
varnished with twelve original facsimile players signatures. With both brands represented coupled with the HBC stripes
- this one of a kind souvenir stick was marketed during the Olympics in the “superstore” in Vancouver and 80 HBC
stores across Canada. It was a positive public relations coup for both brands.
A complete turn-key concept from start to finish including all logistics and coordination handled in-house. This is a
great example of teamwork in a multifaceted promotion involving two large and very recognizable brands. Concept,
negotiations, design and execution.
Director of Marketing and Operations
ICA International Charity Association
A National Charity dedicated to the education and digital literacy of Canadians.
30 million in revenues and charitable donations. Lead staff and associates of ICAN through and entire re-branding
process, starting with a new corporate identity system to a full operational overhaul to maximize and streamline all
internal divisions and associated components.
 Conceptualized, designed and executed a complete corporate identity system.
 Reconstructed underperforming programs to align with new objectives.
 Conceptualized, designed and assembled the complete marketing package.
 Conceptualized, designed and implemented a new office layout & makeover.
 Re-launched the entire Brand and charity.
 Closely monitored and optimized new organizational changes.
 Created, planned and executed programs ranging from strategic brand planning to direct-response
campaigns.
 Negotiated a national partnership with YMCA Canada
Chairman and Marketing Director for multiple events
HIGHLANDS OF DURHAM GAMES Celtic Festival
STOUFFVILLE COUNTRY RIBFEST
UXBRIDGE RIBFEST
Total attendance for these events totaling over 350,000 people over 6 years.
Was instrumental in taking the Highland Games out of debt and creating two other family festivals that are still in
operation today. Fund raising initiatives totaling over $145,000 in revenue not including gate receipts of actual events
over the course of three years. Position held for 6 years
Various responsibilities included the end to end management of all event logistics, site and employee management, as
well as marketing and communications committee. Concept design and execution of the new identity and two
advertising campaigns, including Web design, Logo, Online application forms, E-Commerce, Photography, promotional

3. Steve Harrison
Experienced Marketing and Art Director
416 459 9078. stevemharrison@gmail.com
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kits and folder system, Media buy including 12 separate media chronicles. TV commercial, Radio and 17 print ad
designs for local media, Complete Social Media strategy leveraging Facebook coupled with Poster and PR media.
Successfully prepared and submitted grant proposals and obtained sponsorship monies from The Building
Communities through Arts & Heritage program BCAH (Department of Heritage affairs ) maintained successively for 4
years.
Education
Over 20 successful years of work experience in Marketing Communications, evolving with change.
 Marketing courses, Ryerson Poly Tech College
 Ongoing Marketing courses and seminars from industry top experts, including
o Brendon Burchard- High Performance academy, New York
o Brendon Burchard- Experts Academy, Santa Clara California
o Brendon Burchard- Empire Mastermind marketing group, Santa Clara, California
o Andy Jenkins- Video Marketing
o Mike Koenigs- Main Street Marketing
References
Excellent references, gladly provided upon request.