About Motor Preferences Coaches
We exist to help athletes, coaches, and organizations move beyond one-size-fits-all development — creating better fit between the athlete, the coach, and the environment so performance becomes more natural, more sustainable, and more true to the person.
Experience your own profile first
Coaches and staff learn their own motor preferences and signatures through direct experience — understanding the framework from the inside before applying it to athletes.
Understand how motor characteristics show up
Learn how profiles appear in movement, learning, behaviour, and performance — and how they shift dynamically based on an athlete's current state.
Assess motor profiles and motivational drivers
Apply protocols to identify motor profiles, motor signatures, and deep motivational drivers — connecting brain function, motor patterns, and the behaviours that shape performance.
Manage flow states and coach with aligned cues
Cover flow-state management, self-talk, and coaching cues — and how to coach effectively across multiple profiles for physical conditioning and motor learning.
Translate it into your development practice
Leave with practical tools to apply individualized athlete development across your whole program — not just in theory, but in every session.
Start with where you are
Understand your experiences, goals, and current snapshot in time before any assessment begins — context shapes everything that follows.
Assess how you move and perform
Identify dominant physical preferences across movement sessions — building a clear picture of how your body is naturally organized to move.
Compare in-profile vs out-of-profile actions
Map which sport-specific actions align with your profile and which work against it — so coaching targets the right things from the start.
Build aligned cues, strategies, and practice
Discover positions, patterns, and cues that fit how you move — then apply them with direct feedback so development stays connected to real performance.
Plan for competition and the full season
Mental plans, conditioning priorities, seasonal planning, and coach-facing summaries — a complete, individualized path that holds up under pressure.
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.
- 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.
- ›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.
- 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.
- ›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