About Motor Preferences Coaches
We help athletes, coaches, and organizations move beyond one-size-fits-all development to creating coaching strategies around how athletes learn, grow and perform. When technique respects the athlete movement becomes more natural, more sustainable, and more true to the person.
- Matt and Prashant met in 2024 through Action Types Approach training and soon realized they shared the same goal: helping athletes and coaches get better results by working with each person's natural strengths. They founded Motor Preferences Coaches LLC in 2025 to make individualized training and performance coaching available around the world.
- Matt and Prashant regularly team up to provide education and support for coaches and athletes across the UK, USA and Canada. Both Matt and Prashant are trained and endorsed by Motor Preferences founders Bertrand Theraulaz and Ralph Hippolyte. They also learn from and collaborate with a global network of Action Types-certified specialists representing more than 30 disciplines.
Prashant Patel
Managing Director
Based in the UK, Prashant brings deep experience in cricket coaching, coach education, and motor signature work — applying the ActionTypes framework across multiple sports and international environments.
About Prashant
- Has coached players from youth level through to professional and international environments, with particular strength in skill development, movement patterns, and practical on-field application.
- Has spent years applying ActionTypes and motor preference concepts in cricket and soccer, helping athletes understand how they move, learn, and perform at every level.
- Contributes to ActionTypes course delivery as an Assistant Lecturer in both the UK and USA — supporting coaches to understand and practically apply motor preference and motor signature work.
- Holds a strong interest in vision, motivation, and how movement-based solutions can improve performance — areas he has explored through direct work with athletes and continued study with Ralph Hippolyte.
- As a specialist in spin bowling, fielding, and wicket keeping, Prashant applies the same individualized framework to technical skill work as he does to broader coaching education and player development.
Training & Qualifications
- ›M.Sc Biomechanics
- ›ActionTypes Certified Practitioner
- ›Working with Motor Signatures — 8 years of applied practice
- ›Assistant Lecturer for ActionTypes courses in the UK and USA
- ›Deep Motivational Drivers training with Ralph Hippolyte
- ›England Cricket Board Level 4 Coach (International)
- ›Specialist in Spin Bowling, Fielding and Wicket Keeping
- ›ECB Child Welfare Officer and First Aider
Matt Brown
USA Lead Performance Coach
Based in the USA, Matt brings decades of experience coaching athletes at every level across multiple sports — combining deep technical knowledge with the individualized framework of motor preferences.
About Matt
- A motor preference practitioner and ActionTypes Certified Coach, Matt applies these principles to all of his coaching work regardless of sport — the profile of the athlete, not the sport, drives every decision.
- Specialist in hitting in baseball and softball, working with individual youth and collegiate athletes both in person and remotely — helping players find clearer, more natural performance rather than correcting them toward a single standard.
- Has coached an exceptionally wide range of sports including Soccer, Special Olympics Golf, American Football, Flag Football, Fastpitch Softball, and Cricket — always applying the same individualized, movement-first approach to each.
- Combines a background in managing high-performing teams with hands-on athlete development — bringing a structured, results-oriented mindset that makes the individualized approach practical and scalable in real coaching environments.
- Dedicated to helping athletes find their natural way of moving — the belief that when coaching aligns to the person, performance becomes more consistent, more sustainable, and more true to who they are.
Training & Qualifications
- ›Certificate in Personal Fitness Training, Bellevue College
- ›NFCA Master Coach 1 Star
- ›NFCA Hitting and Pitching Endorsement
- ›Action Types Baseball Motor Signatures Trained
- ›Action Types Certified Practitioner and Coach (Motor Pref. Modules 1–4)
- ›Washington University Pitching & Coaching Clinic 2022–2026
- ›American Red Cross CPR/AED First Aid