Steph Shapiro is a Chicago-based information designer and strategist.

Known for bringing striking tangibility to hard-to-see decisions and visual language to hard-to-grasp systems, she’s helped some of the world’s most influential companies articulate how they’ll evolve with data and AI.

She’s made abstract ideas intuitive for railyard workers, nuclear engineers, and CEOs.

In 2017, before the tech industry lost our collective minds over AI workflows, Steph patented a method for integrating machine learning into the natural flow of work.

In 2020 she challenged the World Economic Forum to spearhead equity in their innovation platform, from her covid bunker over an ice cream shop.

In 2023 she outlined digital platform approaches for a global energy supermajor with hand-drawn sketches.

In 2025 she worked with the world’s largest agribusiness to prototype how to sell with agents.

Steph pulls methods and instincts from over a decade in enterprise software, in roles spanning product design, data viz, innovation, and sales. She recently left Salesforce after 8 years to explore new projects.