Divine Bradley
Divine Bradley is a futurist that has dedicated decades to reimagining the experience of school, communal spaces and creating transformational programming for the demographics they serve. A serial ideator and social entrepreneur that loves to dream BIG, explore the impossible and collaborate with people with prolific creativity, imagination and discipline, to produce ideas.
Biography
Bradley is a creative consultant with 20+ years of experience across industries -- from fashion and entertainment to education and community engagement. He works with individual and institutional clients as a consultant, trainer, facilitator and strategic thought partner with out-of-the-box ideas that spark innovation. Bradley inspires audiences to lean into their personal passions and push past boundaries to explore what’s possible. He designs interactive workshops and events that take participants through unforgettable experiences that include real-life adventures and imaginative exercises in self-reflection.
He also works with organizations to co-design sessions to cultivate culture and creativity. His work delicately disrupts the status quo of team culture, supporting teams in reimagining their core values and fostering relationships through collaborative building. Bradley often partners with senior leadership teams to ideate around innovation by asking the provocative, thought-provoking questions that foster innovation. He self-identifies as a “Social Imagineer”.
At age 17, Bradley founded his first non-profit, Team Revolution. He has since worked with start-ups, 501(c)3s and Fortune 500 companies, including luxury brands like Polo - Ralph Lauren and national non-profits like The Future Project. While at Polo - Ralph Lauren, he began his career in corporate social responsibility. He scaled that work at The Future Project by growing the organization into 11 cities across the US. Bradley also co-founded Liminality, Inc., a creative studio that focuses on developing tools to help people design their lives. His earlier work has been featured in the award-winning documentary, The Hip Hop Project, executive produced by Bruce Willis and Queen Latifah.
Bradley's current focus is urban planning and development for the 22nd century and his dream is to democratize immersive learning and provide an equitable distribution of magic and awe in the places where we learn, dwell, and work. He received his MFA in Public Action at Bennington in Fall 2022.