Steinthal
Strategy advisor in McMinnville, Oregon
Deborah Steinthal is a senior marketing executive and seasoned consultant with a proven approach enabling business owners to position for growth or for exit. She has worked alongside over 150 CXOs to generate close to a billion dollars of incremental, profitable revenues for her clients.
As both a strategic consultant and as an executive, Steinthal has enabled organizations large and small to transform from startup through formalization, restructure due to poor performance, manage through fast growth; and launch new initiatives, products and services both regionally and globally. She has achieved significant results in consumer, retail, food service, healthcare and technology.
Steinthal’s passion is to partner with talented business leadersdriving compelling business growth across private and public business enterprises in transition. With over 20 years of business building experience, she has enabled leadership teams to envision and execute new scenarios - ranging from Choicelunch, Cowgirl Creamery, Brown Forman, Delicato Family Vineyards and Cakebread to Williams Sonoma, Diageo, Lockheed Martin, Neoforma.com, Oracle and Winetasting.com. Many of these companies have become leaders in their respective industries.
Steinthal is avid about education and has served on numerous reform boards including New Tech Foundation seeded by the Gates Foundation; is broadly published by national business press, an invited speaker, panelist and quoted for research on key topics such as Digital Commerce and Family Business Transition. She has moderated over 80 CEO Roundtables for over a decade. She has a Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania and an Executive MBA from the Lockheed Management Institute at Santa Clara University.
Having lived, worked and travelled throughout Europe, Asia, Middle East and North America, Deborah and her husband, commercial photographer John McJunkin, are based out of McMinnville, Oregon and have a daughter who is a force in the fashion world of New York City.