Matthew听Brady

  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND INFORMATION ANALYTICS
Address

Koelbel - 465C

Biography

Matt Brady is an Instructor in the Organizational Leadership & Information Analytics (OLIA) department at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado. As part of the听 program that Matt runs to promote building ethics & empathy into innovation, he has created curricula on digital transformation and business technology. These courses include听 and听. He also teaches听, frequently sponsors听, and has earned the听 credential. Matt serves as the Faculty Advisor to the听 (the first such group in the world). In his first year on the faculty, Matt launched the听, providing students with design thinking and agile development experience (and cash) while delivering working SaaS applications (and cash) benefiting non-profit organizations in the Boulder, Golden, and Denver communities. Since then, Matt helped found & launch the Boulder Founder Summit to connect students with seed and venture funding, mentoring, and talent resources in the Boulder startup community.

Matt is a serial entrepreneur. His latest startup is听, a听collaborative decision optimizationTM听platform that helps organizations make important decisions using information instead of intuition. He is actively collaborating on projects in听听听听听听. Matt has had five successful exits across FinTech, IoT, Energy, and HRTech,others. The breadth of Matt鈥檚 experience with fundraising and liquidity events includes equity rounds from angel investors and venture capital firms, IPO, acquisition by a strategic buyer, and as acquisition and recapitalization by private equity firms. He is an experienced CEO and as a 鈥減layer-coach鈥 in the areas of Management & Strategy, Innovation, and M&A. Matt is a frequent speaker on next-generation leadership, customer success, and decision science. He has extensive speaking experience in venues from boardrooms to industry conferences to community-building events. He is a passionate builder of people and organizations.听

Education

MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

BS, Polytechnic Institute of Technology, Purdue University

Honors

  • David B. Balkin and Rosalind & Chester Barnow Endowed Innovative Teaching Award听鈥撎齠or work leveraging AI for 鈥淐itizen Developers鈥 to improve user access and build automation for Tomorrow鈥檚 Societies
  • Leeds AI Teaching Excellence Challenge Grants (2x)听鈥 for advancing the pursuit of innovation through autonomous AI agents delivering value for builders and stakeholders
  • Gillespie Award听鈥撎齠or promoting entrepreneurship in and out of the classroom
  • Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative听鈥 awarded a grant and selected as a Faculty Ambassador for the 2022-2023 academic year, delivering seminars on the ethical imperative and competitive advantage of high-quality decision-making
  • 鈥 providing training to their global network of CEOs and Executives called "Decide Better: Decision Science for Leaders"
  • 鈥 industry conference presentation entitled "The Frontiers of Decision-Making: Innovations & Applications at the Leading Edge"
  • 鈥 industry conference presentation entitled "Emerging Analytics - a showcase of the most innovative uses of analytics to support decision-making"

Courses

Management Information Systems (MIS) courses specific to Business Analytics & Information Management (BAIM):听

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