About Gadfly Growth Strategies
I’m Brad Kuluris
Executive Mentor with decades of experience in executive leadership and development.
Highly skilled at strategy, change management, conflict resolution executive team building, group facilitation and mastermind groups. Critical thinker and resource for board development, mergers, acquisitions, restructuring and exit strategies.
Fortune 500 experience: with McDonalds Corp, PepsiCo, Arbys.
Entrepreneurial experience: investment banking, franchise owner $40 million business, consulting, real estate development, manufacturing, distribution.
Nonprofit experience:
- Valley of the Sun United Way
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Phoenix
- Arizona Restaurant Association
- Foster group homes
- PTSD recovery.

Education
- UC Irvine-premed,
- Cal State Bakersfield-psychology,
- Pepperdine University presidential and key executive MBA,
- University of Michigan Ross School of Business-Nonprofit School of executive leadership.
- Center for Creative Leadership- Leadership development program,
- Vistage chair executive facilitation program.
Testimonials
Working with Brad has been such a pleasing and delightful experience. I went into our first meeting with a one-track goal, however Brad was able to listen, discern and push me to dive deeper and help me reveal an even more clear and optimal vision, a vision that held longevity and congruency, a vision based from my heart space.
Brad’s professionalism and genuine care for me allowed me to fully relax and be in a state of creativity and receiving while we worked together. Brad prioritized getting to know who I was and what my desires were and used that energy and knowledge to really get to the core of not just my vision, but a life work that would be based in what I was passionate about, one that would be fulfilling and profitable.
Brad thinks big! His wisdom and insight are quite expansive. He has this incredible ability to gracefully lead you to your own decisions, organize them, and put them into very useful planning. About a week after one of our most recent sessions I was able to take ideas from our session pitch it to a new client and I was able to secure a contract of services based on my working with Brad. Since then this momentum has led me to pitch to more companies about my projects. Brad has inspired me to become the great alchemist and architect of my life’s work. I recommend Brad as a business coach, mentor, and I’ve had the additional bonus of acquiring a very dear friend.