Meet Our Teachers

Brad Szollose (pronounced zol-us), has been a serial entrepreneur for over 40 years, starting his first business at the age of 16 when his Hungarian immigrant father made it so hard to ask for a twenty-dollar bill, it was easier to start a business.

One of his companies, K2 Design, Inc., started as an idea in a coffee shop without any funding whatsoever, quickly became a publicly traded company on NASDAQ in an IPO during the Dot Com Boom of the 90s.

Brad is also the award-winning author of the international bestseller Liquid Leadership: From Woodstock to Wikipedia, and the host of Awakened Nation, a podcast dedicated to deeper conversations with today’s outliers and cutting-edge entrepreneurs.

Growing up in Pennsylvania, he showed a rare talent for creative work in design and illustration, and eventually attended The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Brad honed his creative skills for 45 years in NYC as a creative director/graphic designer for large-scale corporate events and production houses.

He now lives in the Southwest and can be found hiking in the mountains of Las Vegas on the weekends.

Career Highlights:

• Host of Awakened Nation podcast
• Created online and in-person training curriculums for The American Management Association, Tony Robbins Business Mastery Graduates and CrossKnowledge, to name a few, with a focus on the subject of cross-generational communication & management and creating high-performing workforce cultures that integrate a multigenerational workflow.
• Author of Liquid Leadership: From Woodstock to Wikipedia
• Winner of the Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal
• INDIE Independent Publishing Award Silver Medal
• TEDx Talk The Age of Radical Disruption: How Millennials and Serious Gaming Will Be Transforming The Future of Everything
• Recipient of the Arthur Andersen NY Enterprise Award for Fostering Innovation Among Employees