About John Brady

John Brady teaches the Personal Best Course. John's assignments have spanned training and development, performance management, business development, sales management, and marketing. John's particular strength lies in presentation skills training and personal performance improvement. His business and consulting experience and his understanding of the adult learning process enable him to help people to become more confident and effective speakers and to develop their own unique "Personal Best" style of presenting.

John Brady's expertise combines formal education with practical business experience. He has designed, developed, and delivered a wide range of training programs including Presentation Skills, Professional Selling Skills, Train the Trainer, Facilitation, Negotiation, Time Management, Leadership, and Change Management. His training interventions range from large group instruction to small group facilitation and private executive coaching. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies as well as start-up ventures.

He is certified in many leading training programs, including The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and FOCUS. In addition, John has delivered a variety of keynote speeches.

John and his wife Carol are celebrating ten years of marriage.  After four decades in New York City, John moved out of Manhattan and now lives on Lake Mohawk in Sparta, New Jersey.  Both John and Carol enjoy mountain biking, water skiing, and sailing.  In addition, John plays tennis and is currently moving up the rankings in his tennis league.

Education

• The Executive Program, The Darden School
• MBA Program, Pace University
• B.S. Marketing, Fordham University

Work History

• M&M/MARS
  • Director of Training and Development
  • Director of Business Development
    
• Johnson & Johnson
  • Sales Management

Affiliations

• American Society for Training and Development
• The Graduate School of Coaching, Coachville
• The Education Committee, Promotional Products Association International

Favorite Training Topics

• How To Become a More Confident and Effective Speaker
• Leadership and Change Management
• Effective Business Communications
• Time and Project Management
• Sales Performance
• Goal Setting

Acclaim

• “John was excellent with the material!” DHL
  
• “Great examples delivered with high energy.” IBM
  
• “I thought John did a great job in keeping the topic alive". The seminar had some great tips that I could take back and use immediately” KPMG
  
• “A big pat on the back for the way you handled the bomb scare. After calmly leading the participants to safety, John continued the seminar in the parking lot turning the event into a learning experience." Accenture

Client

• Accenture
• Allstate Insurance
• Barnes & Noble
• Cedent
• Century 21 Real Estate
• DHL
• Georgia Pacific
• IBB
• KPMG
• Morgan Stanley
• New York State United Teachers
• Pfizer
• Save the Children Federation