About Steve Cantrell

Steve Cantrell is a truly seasoned and creative executive who has worked across many disciplines within the nonprofit sector.

He brings significant experience in strategic planning, organizational development, communications, marketing, public relations, and fundraising, including successful grants management. He is highly respected for his exceptionally strong organizational skills, flexibility, and vivid imagination. With a deep passion for lifelong learning and a limitless curiosity, he loves tackling new business challenges.

As an entrepreneur, he has a proven track record of successfully creating excitement and ‘buzz’ around projects, and excels at creatively positioning organizations to be recognized as thought leaders.

Naturally collaborative, he is skilled at cultivating meaningful and positive working relationships with key internal and external institutional stakeholders. He possesses some truly rare and valuable traits, including being deeply in tune with their inner life, having a preference for complexity and ambiguity, and an unusually high tolerance for disorder and disarray—which allows him to extract order from chaos.

He’s independent, unconventional, and always willing to take thoughtful risks.