David Brady
MFA
BC, CANADAInternational award-winning film and television producer David Brady's work is best known in Canada and the U.S., but he is no stranger to European audiences. He will share his dramatic, and compelling stories of overcoming adversity and climbing to the highest levels of international success in the arts, business, and academia.
He began his early career on the floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange. At 22 years of age, he became a Life Underwriter/Financial Planner before becoming president of his first company ASK Corporation marketing Earl Nightingale's inspirational and motivational products in the early 1970s. At 24 David returned to College and attended two graduate schools completing an MFA at York University in Toronto.
David went on to become President of three successful film and television production companies. He was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards for The Grey Fox, presented by Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios and produced for such studios as United Artists, Disney Channel, ABC, CBS, Discovery, France 5, Fox Tel Australia to name just a few. He has written, produced or directed over 130 episodes of primetime drama, comedy and 60 hours of documentaries on a variety of intelligent subjects.
David was an award-winning professor at Ryerson University in Toronto as well as on the faculty of York University in Toronto and was on the Faculty of Motion Picture Arts at Capilano University in North Vancouver British Columbia.
In his new dramatic and compelling three books David shares his journey of overcoming incredible adversity, finding peace of mind and his true purpose in life. Two of the books in his Life Trilogy received the Readers Favorite Awards in New York. First, Surviving: Transforming Childhood Trauma received fourth place; and Serenity: Aging With Dignity, Living with Grace, won the Silver Readers Favorite Awards for second place in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
International award-winning film and television producer David Brady's work is best known in Canada and the U.S., but he is no stranger to European audiences. He will share his dramatic, and compelling stories of overcoming adversity and climbing to the highest levels of international success in the arts, business, and academia.
He began his early career on the floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange. At 22 years of age, he became a Life Underwriter/Financial Planner before becoming president of his first company ASK Corporation marketing Earl Nightingale's inspirational and motivational products in the early 1970s. At 24 David returned to College and attended two graduate schools completing an MFA at York University in Toronto.
David went on to become President of three successful film and television production companies. He was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards for The Grey Fox, presented by Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios and produced for such studios as United Artists, Disney Channel, ABC, CBS, Discovery, France 5, Fox Tel Australia to name just a few. He has written, produced or directed over 130 episodes of primetime drama, comedy and 60 hours of documentaries on a variety of intelligent subjects.
David was an award-winning professor at Ryerson University in Toronto as well as on the faculty of York University in Toronto and was on the Faculty of Motion Picture Arts at Capilano University in North Vancouver British Columbia.
In his new dramatic and compelling three books David shares his journey of overcoming incredible adversity, finding peace of mind and his true purpose in life. Two of the books in his Life Trilogy received the Readers Favorite Awards in New York. First, Surviving: Transforming Childhood Trauma received fourth place; and Serenity: Aging With Dignity, Living with Grace, won the Silver Readers Favorite Awards for second place in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
The Science of Selling
Success: Reflections on Money, Sex and Power
In his most recent book, Success: Reflections on Money, Sex, and Power David shares his humorous outlook and insights on how to use them, not abuse them or lose them. He examines these three topics that are responsible for most of our life's goals, achievements or problems from the perspective of having been an award-winning professor, producer, and author.
In this keynote talk, he will take your audience on a journey of either one-hour or ninety minutes and give them a simple...
Serenity; Aging With Dignity
What can Aging Boomers do if they are blindsided by a natural disaster, loss of a spouse or partner, frayed family relations, financial concerns or health issues?
David's keynote talk or three-hour seminar can give "Boomers," their caregivers, physicians, health care professional and social workers a straight forward 8 step plan to supplement their medical, psychological or interdisciplinary approach to aging issues.
The keynote talk and seminar are based on David's first...
Transforming Childhood Trauma
1 in 4 Canadians in the 2012 census reported some form of childhood trauma or abuse. That number roughly translates to 8,000,000 people in Canada, and one can extrapolate approximately 82,000,000 individuals in the United States. The challenge is most adults carry this trauma into their personal, work and social lives.
Today, most researchers in the field of alcoholism and addiction recognize that at its core - child abuse in any form is at the root of most addictions and...
