About Steve Hendershot
Cedar Cathedral founder Steve Hendershot is an award-winning multimedia journalist and content marketer who delights in telling stories that are quirky, complex and important. Versatility is a bit of an obsession: he has profiled Supreme Court justices and craft brewers, physicists and football stars, and the subjects of his most recent deep dives range from healthcare architecture and education policy to homelessness and gun violence.
Steve’s bestselling book about the video game series Street Fighter was named one of the top gaming books of all time. He has received national acclaim both for his journalism and also his work on behalf of brands such as Adobe, Qualtrics, Staples and Epsilon. In both 2021 and 2022, he contributed to projects that won multiple Content Marketing Awards from the Content Marketing Institute, as well as Peter J. Lisagor Awards for excellence in Chicago journalism. Steve also hosts the Project Management Institute’s Projectified podcast, which ranks among the leading careers podcasts in the U.S., U.K. and Canada and won a 2022 award from the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts.
Depending on the needs of your project, the Cedar Cathedral team can also (and frequently does) expand to include talented, experienced professionals in fields such as web design, photography, videography, live event production, public relations and social-media marketing.
Some of our clients and industries:
DIGITAL MARKETING (Adobe, Epsilon, Qualtrics)
HIGHER ED (University of Illinois-Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (HPS, Sidley, Northern Trust)
MEDIA (Crain Communications, Tribune Co.)
AGENCY (Imagination Publishing, Brandtrust, GLC)
What’s with the name?
Cedar Cathedral began with a passion project: a podcast that told the stories of artists and artisans pursuing the creative life in the Great Lakes region. Steve called the show Cedar Cathedral because “cathedral” is the word Ernest Hemingway used to describe the Michigan forests where he came of age. When the show morphed into a content studio, Steve kept the name as an homage to Cedar Cathedral’s beginnings.
Click here to check out the original Cedar Cathedral podcast.
