about the authors of

David Coates

David Coates saw men like those featured in Be Less Dickish while practicing psychotherapy in San Francisco and has worked very hard to be less dickish himself. He has led mens groups, couples retreats, been an adjunct faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies, John F. Kennedy University, and taught internationally.

He currently resides in places warmer than San Francisco and continues to travel, write, teach, and support men, women, and couples in figuring things out.

Corey Kilpack

Prior to co-authoring Be Less Dickish, Corey was David Coates’ client. Corey sat on David’s couch and spilled his guts. Their therapist and client relationship lasted for over seven years and was the basis for many of the therapy sessions that are described in the book.

Corey is the co-founder and president of Life Balance Technologies. In his past life he worked on a trawler in the Bering Sea and has been a missionary, investment banker, hedge fund manager, tinner, alcoholic, douchebag, dick, asshole, and pussy. He barely graduated with a degree in Business Management and Accounting from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University.

He is married to Kellee, and he is a dad, a grandpa, and just a regular fella who enjoys restoring old Lamborghini tractors with his family and friends.