Brad has 45
years combined experience in retailing, corporate
training, publishing, and software development. He has
worked in large and small companies, started two of his
own businesses, worked as a senior executive in two
other startups. He is currently CEO of
Groundbreaking Press and is an adjunct professor in
the Management Department for the McCoy College of
Business Administration at Texas State University, San
Marcos.Brad is a practitioner/scholar, using the
skills and knowledge he has learned, to amass a
remarkable record of accomplishment over the past 25
years. In addition to the numerous training programs he
developed as founder of three major corporate training
departments, he's produced more than 50 videos,
12 audio books, over
100 consumer and business software products, and
he's edited and published over
50 books. He is the inventor of Computer Card
Solitaire, the producer of Shanghai, and was
involved in the licensing of Tetris.
He has completed every project begun in the past 25
years (no vaporware here), and, even more important,
during that time not a single team member left during
the development of a product. This is what Brad calls
"employee retention."
Brad's amazing ability to complete projects on time
and on budget, plus his creative management style,
caught the attention of Tom Peters (In
Search of Excellence), who then featured Brad in
his book,
Liberation Management.
Brad is an expert in many critical areas of business
from customer service to the management of technology.
He is an international speaker, presenting talks and
seminar/workshops in a broad spectrum of subjects
including, team building, and effective leadership,
creativity, project management, the management of
technology, and storytelling as a change agent. As an
author Brad has written four books,
LUCKY THAT WAY - Stories of Seizing the Moment While
Creating the Games Millions Play,
GET THINGS DONE - Ten Secrets of Creating and
Leading Exceptional Teams,
ONE SHOVEL FULL - Telling Stories to Change Beliefs,
Attitudes, and Perceptions, and
WHY PUBLISH? - Making the Right Choices for Your
Book. Brad is currently writing his fifth book,
WINNING WITH INNOVATION - Achieving Environments to
Gain the Competitive Edge, with coauthor, Susan
Gilbertson. They expect this book to be published next
spring (2008).
Brad holds a Master's Degree in Futuristics. His
speech, "Earthward
Implications of Cosmic Migration," was given at the
American Astronautical Society's proceedings in honor of
the tenth anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on the
moon. Most recently he has been a featured speaker on
radio programs throughout the United States on future
trends in our society, focusing on unusual developments
in medicine and virtual reality, humanity's move into
space, and extinction level events.
Groundbreaking Press is an author-services book
publishing company dedicated to helping authors get
their books into publication. In addition to working
with individual authors, they also work with corporate
clients that want to take advantage of their ability to
produce high quality books at an extremely reasonable
price.
Brad is very interested in the space program and has
written
essays on the subject. In addition, he has provided,
free of charge, some of his favorite space pictures to
anyone and everyone interested:
Space
Pictures & Screen Savers
Brad and his wife, Barbara Foley, live in the
beautiful Texas Hill Country south of Austin. Even with
his hectic schedule, Brad finds time to pursue his
varied interests and
hobbies.