In one word, our training is Practical.  And our results are extraordinary – we simply do not offer any course material we have not implemented ourselves within our clients.  

Coast Practical has longstanding partnerships with Dale Carnegie Training, Color Accounting, Benchmark Training, Ideal Outcomes and many other organizations. 

Brett Potts is a certified Dale Carnegie ™ Senior Trainer.   All of the Leadership, Presentations and Sales training Coast Practical conducts is through a licensed Dale Carnegie Training franchise or reseller.  

Our team regularly delivers world class training seminars, workshops and keynote addresses on a variety of other topics, including Scenario-based Negotiations, Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention and Diversity and Inclusion.

Through recent partnerships, we have expanded service offerings to Corporate Culture, Organizational Change Management, Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Finance, and U.S. Fiduciary Law.  If we do not offer the curricula you desire, we are pleased to offer referrals to quality sources within our network.

In this new era of Online Face-to-Face Learning, we have an unprecedented opportunity to support job growth through continual learning. Do you offer a curriculum or learning environment to adults? If you wish to create an engaging, immersive, online face-to-face experience for your students, Coast Practical can help. Online Production is a partnership with your existing instructors, using any Video Conferencing Platform (examples include: Zoom ™, WebEx ™, MS Teams ™, Adobe Connect ™ ). We provide hands on, real time technical support and ensure an engaging, world class learning environment. With thousands of Very Satisfied online adult learners in 2020 alone, our team of 30 Online Producers, familiar with every current Online Learning/Video Conferencing Platform is READY NOW to assist you.

Coast Practical’s core business is the growth of your business.   We work with business ownership and top executive leaders to develop major objectives, such as the launch of a new division, a pivot into a new market or key metrics for acquiring other businesses.   In one recent example, Brett and other Coast Practical executives took over the reins of a struggling metal finishing operation in Southern California.   The team made two acquisitions in quick succession, one for $21 million and another for $5 million, enabling the sale of the group for nearly $90 million.   In another recent example, two Coast Practical executives worked directly with the family ownership of a multi-billion Japanese conglomerate to ideate and launch a new division.   In just 26 months, the business grew from an idea on a napkin to $14 million of annual revenue.

In 2015, Coast Practical team members completed our first C-Level Executive Coaching programs.  Brett was reluctant to enter this business because he had mixed experiences with executive coaching during his tenure as an executive.   His reluctance was a mistake.   Our engagements, from the homebuilder CEO with $14 million in revenue to the Fortune 500 CFO, have met with exceptional success.

Our coaching foundations lies in human psychology, Marine Corps Officer training, the United States Naval Academy’s Center for Ethics and Leadership and the timeless philosophies of Dale Carnegie, Stephen Covey, Marshall Goldsmith and Tony Hsieh.

The simplest way to explain our approach is that we help clients step out of their own way. First, we engage in deep 1-on-1 interpersonal discovery, in order to understand the goals and motivations, whether hidden or in plain sight, of the client.Then, we recite these goals and motivations, as we understand them, back to the client.If revision is necessary, we revise together. Finally, we set clear goals and milestones and leverage best practice systems to accomplish the goals and surpass the milestones.