ABOUT Brad
Brad’s Bio:
Brad's unique value as a speaker, lies in his ability to instigate change through powerful storytelling drawn from his extensive journey as an award-winning Enterprise Technology Entrepreneur, Corporate Innovator and as a proud “First Nations” man.
With clients including Visa, Minter Ellison, Rio Tinto and Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) he works with some of the world's biggest companies to build leadership capabilities necessary to navigate a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous business environment.
Brad Twynham’s keynotes are a dynamic fusion of visionary thinking, practical experience, and a deep understanding of leadership in the age of digital reinvention and smart intelligence.
He speaks to over 100 audiences each year with a speaking career that began six years ago.
Brad’s first book “Radical Thinking: Five Essential Capabilities for Leading in an Age of Reinvention", sold over 500 copies in the first six weeks of release.
As the creator of “Radical Leadership” and “Radical Intelligence” programs, he continues to go beyond the conference stage as a leadership trainer, mentor and corporate innovation strategist, leaving a lasting impact on individuals and organisations.
“Absolutely fantastic! Our people have never given a standing ovation before.”
Port Waratah Coal Services
Brad’s Timeline:
Brad’s formal training and qualifications were as a scientist graduating from the University of Technology Sydney. Through a twist of fate he ended up co-founding his first technology startup Computer Market Research.
In 1995 he became the youngest VP for BEA Systems, the most successful enterprise technology startup to come out of Silicon Valley in the 1990’s which was sold to Oracle Corporation for $8.5 billion. Learning the skills to scale a business at speed and leading teams of people twenty years his senior, he honed the skills of being a motivator and change catalyst.
This led Brad to the founding team in two more start-ups in the Enterprise Computing space. ANATAS and Servicemesh. Over the next 15 years he spent much of his time speaking on stages at international technology conferences for businesses such as SAP, Vmware, Microsoft, TMForum, The Data Centre Alliance, EMC, Dell, HP and IBM.
During this time Brad, drove major business model transformations as an advisor at corporations such as Swisscom, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Visa, Optus and Union Bank of Switzerland. His curiosity about the barriers to change and disruption he observed in large corporations started forming during these engagements.
Selling the business for $USD280M was the pinnacle of a twenty five year journey of continuous innovation.
A twist of fate in 2015 saw him encounter his biggest life challenge to date when he was thrust into a four year legal battle against the F.B.I and US Government. Cut off from the life he once loved, Brad had to take all of the lessons he had learned as an innovator and change catalyst and apply them to his own life which had been disrupted in ways that are unimaginable.
In a coffee shop in 2018, a decision was made to take all of the learnings of the last 25 years and use the adversity of the situation as a metaphor for the tsunami of change and disruption that Brad saw every leader on the planet having to face over the next decade. A realisation that all leaders faced during the COVID 19 pandemic.
This is where “Radical leadership” was created. On realising that in a destabilised business environment most leaders have never been taught the capabilities to create value and foster a culture of resilience, Brad set out to ensure this leadership capability gap was closed.
First as a series of workshops and then as a keynote speaker Brad gained significant traction with organiations such as Singularity U, Minter Ellison, Queensland Health, ANSTO, Endeavor Group, EO Organisation, Rio Tinto and Port Waratah Coal Services. His methods and teachings were also embedded into programs at Western Sydney Universities, Venture Makers Program.
As a speaker he honed his skills during the COVID 19 pandemic and became known around the world as an excellent virtual speaker. Post pandemic, Brad began appearing on larger stages around the world across a range of industries including retail, mining and energy, financial services, government,scientific research and healthcare as well as many startup and innovation conferences.
In November of 2023, Brad released his first book “Radical Thinking: Five Essential Capabilities for Leading in an Age of Reinvention.” Within three weeks the book had sold over 500 copies in a limited release and had a number of bulk purchases from organisations such as, NSW Ministry of Health.
With a second book now being written “Radical Intelligence.” Brad is developing a new set of programs focused on going deep into the world of AI and the Metaverse with the hypothesis that in the Age of Smart Intelligence our greatest competitive advantage as leaders is our humanity and our ability to learn, unlearn and relearn at the speed of technological change.
The accompanying keynote “Radical Intelligence” and “Adaptable Learning Program” was launched in July of 2023 and is starting to receive a tremendous amount of traction as many corporations now struggle with what the future of work looks like and how to lead their organisations through one of the biggest transitions of the way we work since the great depression.