Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.
Bill held executive level jobs as the Director of Training, Management Development and Organizational Development at the Getty Oil Company and as the Director of Human Resources at the Orange County Transit District.
He worked 10 years internally as a senior organization development consultant for the Los Angeles Times.
In his start up days he also worked in human resource development for ARCO, First Interstate Bank, the Metropolitan Water District and the State of Nevada.
He has a B.A. from American University, a MPA from the University of Southern California and has completed 30 hours postgraduate work in the MSOD program at Pepperdine University. In the 1980s he served as an adjunct faculty member of the Graduate School of Business and the School of Public Administration at the University of Southern California.
Throughout his career he was an active member (local and national) of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and the Organizational Development Network (OD Network).
In his current state of being (mostly) retired he is cultivating a sense of whimsy, working hard at not becoming a curmudgeon – with moderate success, and finally having time to read all the literature he should have read while a practitioner. His goal in writing for this Blog is to give current practitioners a snapshot of what’s out there worth reading, seeing, hearing, and visiting. He also sees this Blog as a venue to practice his new love of whimsy.