Stephen Deason

Author, Speaker, Founder & CEO, Consultant, Professor, Entrepreneur, Recovery Advocate, and alleged Human Person ;)

Stephen Deason writes fiction about the systems people fall through. His work follows families through the handoffs nobody owns, and the economics underneath them.

Stephen is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The OPA RASA Group, a social enterprise helping people build worth in recovery. Its companies and affiliates include OPA Home Care and Skilled Nursing and OPA Staffing and its foundation has worked to place more than 700 people from disadvantaged backgrounds into a variety of careers.

He was previously CEO of GRYYT, a socially conscious MarTech firm, and has held C-level positions with three other technology companies. He sits on four nonprofit boards and the advisory boards of two startup technology and telecommunications firms.

Stephen holds an MBA and an MSc in Accounting from Emory University, a BSc in Mathematics from UAB, and was a Sheth Fellow during his doctoral studies in Business at Emory's Laney Graduate School. His research background is in experimental economics, with published work in Accounting Horizons. He presently pursues additional graduate studies in healthcare at The Johns Hopkins University.

He publishes through Alder Creek Editions.