Brad Kilpatrick

Colonel Brad Kilpatrick is an Armoured Corps officer with regimental experience at 2nd Cavalry Regiment and B Squadron 3/4 Cavalry Regiment. He has considerable experience as a military instructor with postings to Royal Military College-Duntroon as a Military Instructor, Senior Instructor of War Fighting and Deputy Chief Instructor. He has also had postings to the Australian Defence Force Academy as the Commanding Officer/Chief Instructor and Deputy Commandant. He has had operational deployments to East Timor, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Colonel Kilpatrick completed Australian Command and Staff College (Joint) in 2006. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Strategic Studies from Deakin University and a Masters in Philosophy from the University of NSW. The topic of his Master’s thesis was The Design and Implementation of Adolescent Learning Strategies Based on Cognitive Neuroscience and Educational Psychology.
Colonel Kilpatrick remains passionate about promoting positive leadership environments to optimise the performance and potential of young people within Defence, and the broader community.