Chris Brady

Chris Brady is a NY Times best-selling author, speaker, humorist, and businessman. His books include Launching a Leadership Revolution (co-authored with Orrin Woodward), PAiLS, Rascal, A Month of Italy, Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail, and several other titles on leadership and success. Over 1 million of his books have been sold in six languages.Chris is CEO and Creative Director of Life Leadership. He is also the executive publisher of Obstacles Press, and one of the founders of All Grace Outreach, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Originally educated as an engineer, Mr. Brady received his BA in Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University and his Master of Science in Manufacturing Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University as a General Motors Fellow, with Master’s Thesis work completed at Toyohashi University in Japan.Chris is an avid motorized adventurer, world traveler, private pilot, community builder, soccer fan, Christian, and dad.He also has one of the world's most unique resumes; including experience with a live bug in his ear, walking through a paned-glass window, chickening out from the high-dive in elementary school, destroying the class ant-farm in third grade, losing a spelling bee on the word "use," jack-hammering his foot, and more recently - sinking his snowmobile in a lake. If you can’t find Chris speaking in front of a live audience, or in his office writing, or in a bookstore, or playing with his children, or on the sideline of a soccer pitch, or in the hills of Tuscany, or out on the lake, try looking in the following Online locations:www.chrisbrady.comwww.christopherjamesbrady.comwww.twitter.com/rascaltweetswww.facebook.com/christopherjamesbradywww.linkedin.com/in/cjbradywww.amonthofitaly.comwww.launchingaleadershiprevolution.comwww.rascalbook.comChris has been recognized by INC. Magazine as among the Top 50 Leadership and Management experts. He is listed among the Top 100 Authors to Follow, Top 20 Most Followed Leadership Gurus and the #2 Most Followed Humorist on Twitter. Likeable Local included him in the 150 Great Marketers to Follow in 2015 and Modern Servant Leader named him among the Top Leadership Experts to Follow in 2015. Online Masters Degree Programs chose his blog for a Masters Award in Leadership, which was also selected as a Top Management Resource for 2012, as well as being listed in the Top 150 Management and Leadership Blogs. In 2010 he was awarded the Kettering/GMI Alumni Association Entrepreneurial Achievement Award. Chris and his wife Terri have four children and live in North Carolina.