Bob Bradley is the owner of @dvanced consulting & training services. In the past he has served as the Assistant Director of the Center for Energy Studies, an energy policy research unit at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (10 years); been involved in appropriating funding for a new charter school system in Louisiana; accessed hundreds of thousands of dollars of grant funds for such issues as homelessness and housing, and has been the Prinicple Investigator of many state agency contracts to produce educational materials in the areas of energy and the environment.

The "Writing Winning Proposals" seminar has been conducted for many state, federal, and private agencies. Many of those who have attended his seminar, and who have put the techniques he teaches to use, have found that their funding and award percentages have risen significantly.

Born in Georgia, but reared in such diverse places as New Hampshire and California, Bob now lives with his wife in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He served in the U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Force for eight years during the Viet Nam conflict, after which he attended Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, where he earned a B.S. in Education, and Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, where he earned a Master of Divinity degree. His background also includes teaching social science subjects in the public school system; advanced electronics, microcomputers and robotics in the proprietary college system; and working in the pastoral ministry.