Brad Shrader has spent most of his life as a serial entrepreneur launching and owning multiple businesses. He is a successful real estate investor and has owned a restaurant, a property management company, and many other successful companies.

Brad was also a Chief Operating Officer of a publicly traded company and was a member of the Board of Directors.

In 2007, he launched his first website and it grew rapidly, Through that website, he began doing consulting work with companies in that industry. The common denominators he found with most companies, was that they negative company culture, there was a lack of effective training, employees were unhappy and there was a high turnover rate. He noted that rather than there being a cohesive team, there was an us versus them between employees and management, that resulted in stunted productivity.

Brad looked at his previous experience with online training and realized that although he was able help countless companies through high quality training courses in this particular industry, most of the company’s culture still suffered. He began to reevaluate the training and how it was deployed. He discovered that, although the content was rich in education, it did nothing to change company environment. Since then he is committed to help companies change their culture and training, from top to bottom, in new and exciting ways via Training Lion LLC.

A Chicago-based writer, producer, and director, Manchester is analyzed, organized, and concise. Executing visions with artful ingenuity, he employs strong team ethics in order to create impactful video content.

In late 2013, he founded production company Atlas Pictures whose 2014 short dramatic film, “Melancholic,” placed in the Top 200 Finals in HBO’s Project Greenlight, premiering on HBO as part of the final public-voting round before the series’ start.

After numerous festival appearances around the globe, Manchester penned The Things We’ve Seen, his debut feature which has since gone on to screen at over eleven festivals around the globe, winning two Best Feature Awards, a Best Picture nomination, Best Actor and Best Actress awards, a Rising Star award for lead actor Jarrett Maier, a Best Original Screenplay award, and three additional Best Supporting Actor, Best Young Performer and Best Actress nominations. It was also awarded the coveted Gold Remi award at the 50th Worldfest Houston, joining the ranks of George Lucas’s THX1138 and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin.