PDR College is a year-round professional-development publisher and podcast for paintless dent repair technicians, paired with a recurring in-person Advanced Skills Seminar for experienced technicians.
The PDR College Podcast has published since 2014. Its conversations connect the repair itself—technique, tools, glue pulling, hail, diagnosis, and finish quality—to the business around it: estimating, pricing, sales, marketing, shops, mobile work, teams, and the decisions operators make in the field.
What PDR College is for
PDR College serves technicians who want to keep improving after their initial training. The public library is organized around four questions:
- How do experienced technicians diagnose and approach the repair?
- Which tools or methods fit the damage, and what are their limits?
- How does a technician build a reliable customer and operating system?
- When is online education useful, and when is hands-on feedback required?
Start with the PDR training guide or browse the PDR College Podcast.
The Advanced Skills Seminar
PDR College has held documented Advanced Skills Seminar occurrences since 2015 in rotating U.S. locations. The event is designed for working technicians and has brought together repairers, trainers, operators, and industry specialists around advanced repair and business topics.
The exact city, dates, instructors, curriculum, prerequisites, price, and policies belong to each real occurrence. The permanent Advanced Skills Seminar hub stays available between events and links to a durable past-seminars archive.
Seminar attendance does not currently award PDR College certification.
The hosts
Keith Cosentino
Keith is a PDR technician, business operator, and co-host of PDR College. He founded Bullseye Dent Removal and Blackplague PDR Tools. His author page explains his operating and commercial relationships so readers can evaluate advice and product discussions in context.
Read Keith Cosentino's profile
Shane Jacks
Shane is a PDR technician, trainer, business operator, and co-host of PDR College. He owns DentPro Upstate and brings technical repair, hail, teaching, and shop experience to the show.
How the content is produced
PDR College favors first-hand examples, clear limits, named authors and reviewers, material review dates, and disclosures over generic claims. Historical pages separate verified facts from unknowns. Old podcast discussions receive current context when products, processes, or facts have materially changed.
Read the editorial standards, commercial disclosures, and corrections policy.