About Brad Parker

Brad Parker has been committed to empowering women for more than 20 years through developing and coaching effective self-defense strategies for the non-martial art female. He is the author of the "Never Defenseless: Empowered Women's Self-Defense" series of books and online video courses. He guides the Women’s Self-Defense Community providing instructors and students with strategies and techniques to successfully avoid and resist attacks by predatory men. Brad currently provides security services as a special projects manager and a lead instructor for a major western U.S. security provider. He provides executive protection and helps train protective agents for some of the largest corporations both domestically and internationally.  He has been assigned every major role on Protective Services Details including advance work, protective driving, close protection, and Agent-in-Charge duties. A major part of Brad’s background was built as a defensive tactics instructor specializing in unarmed defense and subject control measures. He has instructed personnel at the FBI Academy in Quantico as well as other members of law enforcement and security agencies throughout the U.S. He has delivered physical defense instruction on an international level to the Garda Siochana (Irish National Police) and the London Metropolitan Police. Now his primary focus is on the civilian side of self-defense through the Women’s Self-Defense Community and also the Tactical Studies Group. Brad is certified as a Tactical Firearms instructor, a Combat Pistol instructor, and an Arizona State Firearms instructor.