About Us

They say everything happens for a reason, right? Giant Steps Event Planning & Consulting came together in a wonderfully organic way. Kevin Kowalczyk had already fallen into the event industry years earlier when an old friend & work colleague helped him get a job at a talent agency / event planning firm. Turns out he'd been planning events his whole life and didn't realize it! After a decade in the event industry (concert box office staff, the aforementioned event planning firm, full service production company) Kevin was laid off in late 2009. At the time he was President-Elect of the Denver Chapter of the International Live Event Association. He kept encountering small business owners that knew they needed to start social media marketing but didn't have the knowledge or staff to implement it. He’d already been active on social media and after spending a few months learning everything he could about this relatively new medium (for businesses) it became obvious to him: he should just start his own business. He learned the hard way at his previous job that a work/life balance was extremely important and decided that at his next job this would become central to his life. Working for yourself seemed like a perfect way to achieve this. Everything in the universe was telling him it was time for something new: he and his husband just bought their first home, another small business owner wanted a part time marketing employee, and Giant Steps was born in 2010.  Naming was easy since inexplicably Kevin always had said (even though he never really thought he’d own his own business) that if he ever started a company he’d name it after his favorite album: Giant Steps by The Boo Radleys.