Meet Your Creative Executive Coach
David Brownstein
I love the blend of ecstasy and insanity that can co-exist in a creative career.Â
I work with individual professionals and creative companies who are looking to improve their productivity, their profitability and their creativity.
He’s an invaluable compass.
"Working with David is like having a manager, a therapist, and a best friend rolled into one."
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Jim Pasternak
Writer/Producer/Director
Meet David, PCC, CPCC
An Executive & Career Coach for Creatives
The RecsÂ
Named one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders by Leadership Excellence Magazine, David is an author, certified life coach, workshop leader and business consultant. He’s 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.Â
 the certs
Professionally trained by the Coaches Training Institute (CPCC) and certified by the International Coach Federation as a PCC, David is an Adjunct Faculty and Coach-in-Training Supervisor for the Co-Creative Alliance, an ICF certified coaching-for-leadership training program and a featured Master Coach in a live instructional series. David is also Certified in MBTI (Myers Briggs) Assessment.
The Bottom Line
Looking to succeed in the New Economy of today’s Hollywood, but wary of the overnight *gurus* who couldn’t tell a spec script from a shopping list? Welcome, friend, you’ve landed on safe shores. Â
Let’s create a custom plan for your leadership development and creative career so you can join the hundreds of executives, producers, screenwriters and other creative media professionals who’ve seen their goals from “big idea” to “fade out.”Â
Executive &Â Career Coach | Los Angeles, CA
David’s Approach
Supporting the Individual Creative Process + Maximizing Profitability
Hollywood, like life, is "the game that moves as you play."Â
Its product is external and appears on screens and billboards everywhere, but its process is internal. Writing, producing, acting, financing, editing… so much of the creative work is birthed within the individual.
As we mature into conscious creators and leaders, the world evolves even faster. Our greatest challenge and greatest thrill can be to realize that while we can't control the outside world, we can learn to better control our actions, and our ability to navigate the internal creative process that brings our vision to the light of day.Â
Our work is learning to be aware of all that happens "below the surface" of our consciousness.Â
That’s the inner game of Hollywood: Learning to find our heading, plan, strategize, communicate our truth, and how to balance that with spontaneity, flexibility, improvisation and a high tolerance for anarchy, agony and ecstasy.Â
Results Coaching Clients Experience
Los Angeles Executive and Career CoachingÂ
âś“ Gaining greenlights on projects.
âś“ Moving into higher executive roles.
âś“ Building confidence as a creative leader.
âś“ Better collaboration and team relationships.
âś“ Staying creative in an unstructured environment.
Real Clients, Real Results
"David’s coaching helps you discover what may've been there all along. "
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"I’ve worked with David in three separate roles and he’s helped me each time. Not only do I recommend him to you, I recommended him to my wife!"
Lee Dollar
Managing Director / Head of Branded Entertainment, L.A. Content Farm
Real Clients, Real Results
"David's coaching is the best way to fast track my projects in Hollywood."
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"It’s the kick in the pants we all need to take our careers to the next level. During the process I financed two movies and set up a network TV show."
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Amber J. Lawson
Comedy Gives Back, StoryTech, AOL
Real Clients, Real Results
"The rewards are greater than what I had hoped for."
 "In reviewing the year with David recently, I was amazed to discover that I have accomplished more of my goals than I had thought possible."Â
Karen Goldberg
Attorney
Real Clients, Real Results
"Our work was more a healing journey than just 'getting my act together.'"
"By holding a container for the unseen, David facilitated the creation of two books of poetry, a full-length stage play, and most crucially, a much deeper understanding of my creative process.”
Lisa Rowan
Actor, Writer, Director
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