About Drew Forrester

A native and lifelong resident of Baltimore, Maryland, Drew has seen coaching from virtually every imaginable angle.

He was an active youth athlete, playing baseball, basketball, football, ice hockey and soccer.

At age 19, he went to work for a professional soccer team in Baltimore and spent the next 17 years with that organization.

Drew started as a public relations intern in 1981. When he left in 1998, he had just spent six seasons as team's Executive Vice President and General Manager.

He worked for and with coaches in the soccer business.

He went on to hire and fire coaches in the soccer business.

In 2002, Drew moved on to the media, where he started a 12-year career as a sports talk-radio host in Baltimore.

He'd go on to know, interview and spend quality time with NFL coaches, plus nearly a dozen Division I college coaches in the Baltimore area that Drew would talk coaching with whenever the opportunity presented itself.

"Coaches are my favorite people in sports," Forrester would often say on his morning radio show. "Every win and every loss goes on their record. Forever. A football player loses a game, but makes 8 catches for 100 yards, and the only thing that goes on his record is 8 catches and 100 yards. A coach loses a game and he gets an "L", no matter how hard he prepared for that game."

Forrester spent much of his 12-year radio run interested mainly in coaching and how it impacts professional teams and players.

And then, in 2010, he became a coach himself.

Now in his 8th year of coaching high-school golf in Baltimore, and starting his 6th season at prestigious Calvert Hall High School, Forrester is highly motivated to talk about coaching and engaging with high school athletes.

"The times have changed so much in just the last decade or so," Forrester says. "I'm around a lot of really good coaches, every day. But the challenges aren't getting any easier for any of us. Cohereo Coaching is designed not only to help coaches identify those challenges, but more importantly, we provide detailed methods for preventing those challenges from happening in the first place."

Forrester started putting the pieces together for Cohereo Coaching in 2015.

"This is predominantly for high school athletics, although it applies elsewhere, too," Drew states. "When I started putting the project together, it became clear that there aren't many programs like this in the country. There are coaching professionals and coaching seminars everywhere, but very few of them specifically focus on high school athletics."

"If you're going to develop a workshop for high school coaches to help them engage and connect better with high school athletes, it's important to have experience coaching high school athletes," Forrester concludes. "I not only have that experience, but the studying I've done on both coaching and playing at the high-school level makes the Workshop all that much better."

Forrester stresses this to everyone: Cohereo Coaching is NOT a motivation speech.

"I'm not going to stand up in front of other coaches and do the rah-rah thing and tell them things they've heard or read a thousand times," Forrester says. "This Workshop is different. It's fun. It's interesting. It's thought provoking. And it's going to make everyone better."

"Think TED Talks in a casual, classroom setting where coaches are gathered to share information and learn about -- coaching," says Forrester. "There's no big screen behind me that tells the story of Cohereo Coaching. I tell the story. We use past examples and workshop experiments to show coaches what more they can get out of their student-athletes by just taking the time to understand them a little more."

"If you leave our Cohereo Coaching Workshop and you haven't learned something in two and a half hours, I've failed," states Forrester.

"Fortunately, I don't ever see that happening. You'll leave the workshop and have new, fresh ideas and a robust new enthusiasm for your coaching career."