A meditator since beginning a Transcendental Meditation practice more than forty years ago, he completed the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness requirements which authorize him to teach MBSR in August 2015. He initiated and taught the four-unit course Mindfulness and Communication in Spring quarter 2016. Brad earned a BS in biology at Loyola Marymount University and MBA in Entrepreneurship and MFA in Film Production degrees at the University of Southern California. He founded the L.A.-based production company Profilm in the mid-1980s, through which he produced, directed, and edited more than 40 film and video projects. He returned to USC to earn a Ph.D. in Communication in 2006.