Brendan Sullivan, Founder BPS Communication Skills
BPS Communication Skills is led by Brendan Sullivan, an experienced presentation skills, public speaking and communication skills coach. He has coached and trained thousands of professionals to be more effective speakers and presenters over the last 15 years.
Brendan has coached and trained presentation skills directly on his own, as well as through a number of presentation skills providers, including Communispond, Vautier Communications, IMPAX, Hit Your Stride, Corporate Learning Institute and other training companies.
Brendan has taught and coached presentation and public speaking skills as a corporate class, as an open enrollment course, to project teams before “the big one”, and as private coaching for senior leaders. He has also spoken on the topic of presentation skills in keynote addresses and as breakout sessions at business conferences.
Brendan has taught these skills to employees of many large and small organizations, including GE, Lockheed Martin, Kimberly-Clark, AT&T, Aetna, Whirlpool, Walmart, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sherwin Williams, US Steel, Verizon, Charles Schwab, Abbott Labs and many others. Brendan has also taught presentation skills as an adjunct professor at DePaul University.
Brendan’s training style is influenced by his early career as an advertising sales manager for the New York Times Magazine Group. There he delivered many sales presentations to Fortune 500 consumer products companies and their advertising agencies.
Brendan’s style is also impacted by his lifetime of experience as a professional improvisational actor, teacher and coach, trained at the world famous Second City Conservatory. Brendan still performs in Chicago on Monday evenings when he’s not traveling.
Brendan is also a creativity coach, helping individuals and teams to create a culture of collaborative creativity and innovation (see www.creativitycoach.net), as well as a published novelist, and commercial/film actor. Brendan and his wife Susan are the parents of four children.
