Brad Atchison is a retired senior business CEO, Certified Management Consultant, entrepreneur, university professor, and post-graduate Biologist. He has spent countless hours in Nature as a pioneering outdoor recreationalist and environmental activist to honour and help heal our planetary ecosystems as a: backpacker, mountaineer, hiker, skier, outdoor curriculum designer/instructor, wildlife photographer, multi-modal paddler, and life-long learner and educator.  
 
As a competitive woodcarver and judge, one of Brad's art genres is "paddle art": miniature Inuit kayaks with hunting tools as well as beluga and seal hunter dioramas and half-size animal story-telling paddles. He also carves life-size Aleut and Greenland paddles and has produced baidarka and West Greenland kayaks. 
 
Brad's 60-year paddling career has stretched over 20,000 miles (including much portaging!): canoe tripping, whitewater canoeing, whitewater kayaking, and ocean kayaking. He has been a: canoe tripper; paddle guide in wilderness Quebec, B.C., the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut; as well as canoe instructor and operated tripping programs at several childrens' summer camps. He was an outdoor instructor at Blue Lake Centre/Alberta Parks and Recreation. He has earned the NCCP National Coaching Certification Level I in Whitewater Kayaking and British Canoe Union/BCU Sea Kayaking 4-Star Leadership/Instructor Certification. Brad is also a Greenland kayaker and regularly conducts customized, small group, multi-day kayak ocean kayak courses.