Matthew Brady
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND INFORMATION ANALYTICS
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 HumanCentered program that Matt runs to promote building ethics & empathy into innovation, he has created curricula on digital transformation and business technology. These courses include Low-Code for Citizen Developers and Customer Success with Salesforce CRM and AI & Automation for Tomorrow’s Societies. He also teaches Leadership in the Digital Age, frequently sponsors Independent Study, and has earned the Online Teaching Academy credential. He also serves as the Faculty Advisor to the Turning Point USA and CU Salesforce student groups. In his first year on the faculty, Matt launched the Low-Code Hackathon, 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. That event is now called the Colorado Sustainability Challenge, and will attract 500 students from 10 universities and colleges across the state. Further, Matt helped found & launch the Boulder Founder Summit to connect students with seed and venture funding, mentoring, and talent resources in the startup community.
Matt is a serial entrepreneur. His latest startup is Volley Solutions, a collaborative decision optimizationTM platform that helps organizations make important decisions using information instead of intuition. He is actively collaborating on projects in #Analytics #DataScience #DecisionAnalysis #DecisionMaking #DecisionQuality #DecisionScience. Matt has had five successful exits across FinTech, IoT, Energy, and HRTech, including three in which he held an executive role and served as a director, investor, and/or advisor to others. The breadth of Matt’s 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 a “player-coach” in 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.
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 – for work leveraging AI for “Citizen Developers” to improve user access and build automation for Tomorrow’s Societies
- Leeds AI Teaching Excellence Challenge Grants (2x) – for advancing the pursuit of innovation through autonomous AI agents delivering value for builders and stakeholders
- Gillespie Award – for promoting entrepreneurship in and out of the classroom
- Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative – 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
- Vistage Speakers Bureau – providing training to their global network of CEOs and Executives called "Decide Better: Decision Science for Leaders"
- Society of Decision Professionals – industry conference presentation entitled "The Frontiers of Decision-Making: Innovations & Applications at the Leading Edge"
- INFORMS – 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):