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Hollywood Coaching - Executive and Leadership Coaching for the Entertainment Industry |
David Brownstein provides Executive and Career Coaching for the Entertainment Industry and Leadership Development and Training for executives, producers, screenwriters, managers and writers. |
"If business is war, David Brownstein is a five star general. With a rare capacity to unearth the roots of problems both professional and personal, David helps you devise a battle plan for your life. At a time when I found myself feeling utterly defeated and powerless to change things, David showed me how to rebuild my confidence and how to reignite the passion for my career. What’s most remarkable is that he didn’t offer a hand to help me get back on my feet. He showed me that I had the strength to do it myself."
-- Jeff Davis. Creator/Executive Producer - "Criminal Minds" CBS/Touchstone Television
"Like having, in one person, an olympic trainer, a therapist, a dance partner, a guru and a member of the Spanish Inquisition. David is like a wrecking ball with heart."
--Jennie Orvino - Writer/Producer/Performer
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"And I'd Like To Thank My Coach!"
David is in the New York Times! Read the online article HERE or read the pdf version HERE.
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Executive Coach, David Brownstein,
Is Developing Hollywood Leaders
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Los Angeles, California. October, 2006: “Hollywood is great at developing products, but not so great at developing leaders,” says David Brownstein, founder and president of Hollywood Coaching.
To this end, Brownstein announces Inside the Leadership Studio, his step-by-step coaching program, which develops essential leadership skills for executives, management teams and companies. To head writers, show runners and their teams, Brownstein brings the aptly named, War and Peace in the Writer’s Room. In the words of a recent client, “David is like a wrecking ball with heart; like having in one person, an Olympic trainer, a therapist, a dance partner, a guru and a member of the Spanish Inquisition.”
Designed specifically for the entertainment industry, Brownstein’s executive coaching and leadership development programs are changing the way writers, executives and producers define what it takes to be a leader in Hollywood.
A former producer and director, Brownstein is certified by the International Coach Federation and was featured in The New York Times, March 2006 article, And I’d Like to Thank My Coach, which focused on life-coaching in Hollywood.
“Executive coaching isn’t therapy,” says Claire Tristram of the magazine Fast Company. “It’s product development, with you as the product.” When it comes to managing and inspiring creative teams, it’s better trained, more effective leaders Hollywood needs.
“There’s a big difference between being the boss and being a leader,” says Brownstein. “As brilliant as many of these people are, a great many of them are in over their heads when it comes to running a successful company.”
Not to mention the way they think about the dysfunctional side of Hollywood. “Most of my clients want more satisfaction from their work, but don’t know how to get there.” With tangible, bottom-line results, inside expertise and practical business applications, David Brownstein is everything a manager should be, but usually isn’t.
Consider the writer, successful on the staff of a TV show and suddenly he’s running a room of 12 writers. Or the producer, successful in film or TV and suddenly she’s running a production company. Or the executive, who finds great success and suddenly he’s running an entire studio. They’re at the peak of their success and rising fast, but they’re out of their comfort zones; powerful, talented and well connected, but their leadership skills are underdeveloped or missing entirely.
Hollywood is finally catching on to what Fortune 500 companies have long known: Leadership development creates a competitive advantage, which results in highly skilled, more effective leaders and more profitable companies. Just ask any of Brownstein’s clients, creatives, executives and leaders from (to name a few) ABC-TV, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, Sony Pictures, Touchstone Television, Warner Brothers Television, The Walt Disney Company, HBO, E! Entertainment, Bravo, MTV Networks, ICM, William Morris Agency and BBC-TV.
For more information or to schedule an interview with David Brownstein, please contact him at: db@hollywoodcoaching.com
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The COSMIC MISSION of the POP CULTURE CREATOR |
By David Brownstein, CPCC.
Hollywood is the nerve center, the transformation center and broadcast center for ideas that influence the entire world. The thoughts, words and actions from here impact the globe.
Pop Culture Executives play a profound and pivotal role in the process of communicating new ideas and sharing experiences. The decisions made on a daily basis, for whatever bizarre or seemingly arbitrary aesthetic, financial or political reasons, resonate and reverberate across the globe.
As creators and executors of the cornucopia of pop culture product it’s in our best interest to be fully aware of the impact of our decisions, green lights and pet projects so that we may bring forth works of power and impact.
That’s not to say that everything has to be all happy and stuff -- far from it. The full spectrum of expression is an important part in the development of a healthy culture and community. We long to see the light, the dark and all the slim-shadings in between.
WHAT’S IMPORTANT ABOUT POP CULTURE PRODUCT?
David Whyte, the writer and poet has said: “Art is the act of triggering deep memories of what it means to be fully human.”
Hollywood is constantly creating the new mythologies of the future by a combination of synthesizing, borrowing, and often times regurgitating both the accepted norms of American habit and custom as well as the lunatic fringy, bleeding edge, new age senatorial thoughts, beliefs and values into a constantly evolving Cobb salad of traditional and genetically modified conceptual ingredients.
But the bottom line is, people consume mass quantities of television, film and music because we’re starving for information about our human condition, our lives, our souls. We try to make sense of our experiences: the things we saw on the bus today, or the freeway, or the job. We try to paint by numbers and stay within the lines and play by the rules and we’re constantly tweaked to find that we’re dying of compliance and boredom.
MOST OF US DON’T KNOW HOW WE FEEL.
The truth is, most of us don’t know how we feel and don’t know to express how we feel either.
It is our cosmic mission, as pop culture creators, to develop, nurture, and bring to life the ideas that want to be expressed directly to the people who are hungry to hear, see and feel them, all channeled through the tightly defined creative and financial structures that are the ground rules of our daily existence.
It’s like a scientific/artistic problem to solve: how do I communicate this slice of the human drama in a way that can be produced, marketed, and distributed through the narrowly defined channel that brings our product to it’s end user every minute of the day?
The power and impact is awesome. The system is infinitely complex. The challenge is at times overwhelmingly amorphous and yet at times frustratingly well defined and rigid.
SHIPPING AND RECEIVING AT CONSCIOUSNESS CENTRAL
Like a huge shipping or dispatching service for the inflow and outflow of ideas, Hollywood executives are fighting the good fight on a daily basis: starving for new ideas and ruthless to the cliché. Championing an important element of the human experience and expression through the cutthroat jungle of those who fear or do not understand the idea.
We function in an environment that is truly survival of the fittest, where the best idea truly wins, where no one can stop an idea whose time has truly come, an idea that touches the hearts, minds, desires and pocket books of hungry pop culture consumers everywhere.
It’s our job to follow our own instincts, intuitions, desires and dreams to bring to life the ideas and projects that make us come alive, so that the audiences and consumers and community at large will be inspired, entertained and fully expressed to rise to act in a way that they will stand up, discover and live their own cosmic mission, for the sake of everyone who will be impacted by their own inspired and powerful act as well.
SO, NOW WHAT?
So what are the lessons and responsibilities for the people create the weekly parables and morality tales of television: those who shape the products that will influence millions of teenagers or adults who immerse themselves in a 120 minute journey to another time, place or reality?
Our responsibilities are three fold:
1) Have a vision for the world you want to create.
2) Take responsibility for your impact
3) Know yourself, and stay grounded in your own emotional journey.
I welcome your thoughts, comments, questions and ideas for ways we can all help Hollywood live up to it's potential.
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My goals and mission for my work as a coach for Hollywood are to:
1) Support Hollywood’s creative and business communities to be more effective and powerful leaders for their crews, companies, partners and collaborators up and down the chains of command.
2) Teach compassionate modes of holding ourselves accountable to ensure forward motion and progress in alignment with your vision by creating individually customized programs for each person, group, or organization.
3) Support pop culture makers and creators to design and maintain a balanced life so that they may be most powerful, grounded and free to create works of depth, power and impact.
4) Inspire/nurture/cajole creation of pop culture that entertains, enlightens, enriches and evolves human development and evolution.
To that end I provide the following services in group, individual, keynote and retreat settings.
-Mission/Vision/Values exploration clarification.
-Leadership Mentoring: How to be a better manager/leader/boss.
-Communications Skills. (Deep listening. Clear speaking.)
-Creating Balanced Life.
-Creating Maximum Global Impact.
-Producer as Alchemist.
I welcome your inquiry to create a custom program that is right for you, your company, and our industry. |
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| David Brownstein is a Life Coach, Executive Coach and Career Coach for the Entertainment Industry. He provides Leadership Development Programs and Training for executives, producers, screenwriters, managers and writers. (and the occasional songwriter, actor, director and other all around creative geniuses.) |
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