DAVID BROWNSTEIN, CPCC.
Career Coach for the
Entertainment Industry
DAVID BROWNSTEIN, PCC, CPCC, is the president and founder of Hollywood Coaching, an executive coaching and leadership development company in Los Angeles that specializes in the entertainment industry.
He has coached creatives, executives, leaders, producers, directors, managers and employees at 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, BBC-TV, British Telecom, Network Rail, Waddel + Reed, IGT, Creative Light Entertainment, Valley Community Clinic, Challenge Day Associates, Dog & Rooster Entertainment, Chabot College, The Santa Rosa Symphony, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
David is an author, certified life coach, workshop leader and business consultant. He was featured in the NY TIMES article on Life-Coaching in Hollywood has been interviewed and featured in Movie Maker, Men's Health, Fitness, Awareness and Creative Screenwriting Magazines. He was interviewed live on “The Coaching Show” and was humorously mentioned on KCRW’s “The Business.”
He is the author of “The Cosmic Mission Of Hollywood: How To Stay Inspired and Productive in The Industry That Rocks The World" and is a popular presenter on such topics as "War and Peace in the Writer's Room," "The Essentials of Leadership" and “A Course In Hollywood Miracles.”
His diverse working experience as a filmmaker and creative executive make him uniquely qualified to work with leaders and business teams in the entertainment industry. Through his work as a producer and director in Hollywood and Silicon Valley he has gained a rich and varied perspective on how industry leaders can effectively lead and manage creative and business challenges.
A Professionally trained and International Coach Federation (ICF) certified executive coach, Brownstein has developed an approach to coaching, facilitation and workshop/retreats that is well suited to entertainment industry executives. He brings a natural ability to bring out the best in their leadership styles and to new skills that are right for the person, their company and their industry.
Brownstein is on the faculty of Co-Creative Alliance, an ICF certified coaching-for-leadership training program, for which he is a co-Leader, a coach-in-training supervisor and a featured Master Coach in a live instructional series. CCA completed the largest in-house ICF Certified Coaching Training program in the world for British Telecom in the UK.
He was selected as a “Star Speaker” for the 2004 ScreenWriter’s Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center and gave the Keynote address at LA Music Production’s “Top Producers Reveal All.” He has been a speaker at Women In Film groups in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, The Bodhi Tree, The Institute of Spiritual Entertainment Los Angeles, The Conscious Life Expo “Spiritual Cinema Panel”, The Computer Game Developer's Conference on "The Creative Role of the Producer in Interactive Media," "Working with Writers in Multimedia Development," and The Alameda Writer’s Group. Additional Topics and workshops include "My Hollywood CareerPath," "New Years Evolution" and “How To Market Your Script Without An Agent.”
As a filmmaker he produced the comedy feature-film “In A Pig’s Eye,” an official selection at the Edinburgh, Denver, Boston and the Virginia Film Festivals. Variety described “In A Pig’s Eye” as “an eccentric blend of elegance and idiocy,” and legendary screenwriter Garson Kanin wrote “This is, without question, a must see!”
During his Silicon Valley days David was an executive producer for a virtual reality theme-park project and a video game producer for several top interactive developers. David served as executive producer, producer, production supervisor at Rocket Science Games, PF.Magic, Xulu Entertainment, and Tippett Studio. His production of the video game "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs" won an Annie Award for innovative use of Cell animation in computer games.
David directed and produced the eight-episode “American Storytelling Series” and “American Storytelling: Michael Parent” that won a Cine Golden Eagle. His production of “Macmillan Video Almanac For Kids” won the “Action For Children’s Television First Video Award.” He directed the short film "The Phone Ranger" as part of the 2005 Los Angeles "48 Hour Film Festival."
He received a Grammy Award Nomination and an IFTF Bronze Award for his production of the Sony/Polygram music-video collection “Scenic Views” which resulted in his company, Second Story Television, being profiled in The Village Voice. The Rolling Stone Book Of Music Video wrote, “Simultaneously poignant, haunting, and funny, this is one of Sony’s few Video-45’s to hold together with conceptual integrity.” He has written two screenplays: "Seymour" a Chesterfield semi-finalist and “Double Date,” a romantic comedy that received the first staged reading at the Shooting Gallery in NY.
David composed and produced the Hip-Hop soundtrack for the award winning “Bomb’s Aren’t Cool” educational music video that won festival awards in New York, Chicago, Seattle, France, Canada, and Japan and continues to air on WNET/13’s Independent Focus. A BMI affiliated songwriter he is currently writing and producing an Electronica/Pop CD for independent release with a variety of singers and performers.
He has taught film producing and production management at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco and is a member of the National Recording Academy (NARAS) in the Music Producer and Music-Video Producer categories. He graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA with a BA in Filmmaking and Psychology and received his Coaching Certification from the Coaches Training Institute in San Rafael, CA.
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