Hi, I’m Dr. Brian Dixon, your business coach and marketing mentor.

Over the past nine years, I’ve gone from a nobody online, to writing a best-selling book with a major publisher (and a multi-six figure advance), being a featured speaker at industry-leading conferences, appearing on top podcasts, and being featured in dozens of media outlets includes Forbes and NBC.

But I also know what it’s like to feel overwhelmed, confused, and directionless when it comes to connecting with my ideal audience, sharing my message, and creating life changing products and programs.

After quitting my job and launching my online business, I hit a wall. I knew I had something valuable to share, but it just felt like I was running uphill. No matter how hard I tried, nothing seemed to be working.

That is, until a business mentor taught me a principle that changed everything for me.

The key to becoming a market leader is TOMA.

That's right. Top of Mind Awareness. When a publisher, reporter, podcaster, or conference planner thinks about experts in your niche, you want them to think about you. The key to being chosen is to strategically develop “top of mind awareness.” In fact, it’s the secret sauce to reaching your next level of business growth. 
Imagine your ideal followers, clients, and students coming to you because you are the market leader in your niche.
It is possible. (with a little help)

We begin the mastermind with a one-on-one coaching call.

I want to hear about you. Your story, your goals, your setbacks, and your big dreams.
This will help me customize my coaching and the content of the mastermind to truly help you reach the next level.

Between the "Live Launch Labs"

After our Chicago Lab, will spend the next five months carefully creating your plan, implementing your plan, and assessing your progress as you take action to get booked on podcasts, land speaking engagements, and begin building influencer and affiliate relationships. You'll get monthly teaching from guest experts, weekly coaching, monthly hotseats, and ongoing connection with other Arise and Build members

Meet your mastermind coach, Dr. Brian Dixon

Brian has a masters in teaching and a doctoral degree in educational technology. He has traditionally published two books and self published four. Through his leadership and coaching, his businesses and clients have generated over $6 million online.

He began his career as a classroom teacher where he taught high school students multimedia and digital production. After seven years of teaching, he moved into instructional technology, serving as a teacher technology coordinator at a private Christian school in San Diego and a industry leading charter school. In 2009, he started the Mentorship Academy in Louisiana, taking the project from an idea on a whiteboard to a $5.3 million annual budget and serving over 600 students.

Brian then left education to start his own marketing and coaching business, working with clients such as Michael Hyatt, Crystal Paine, Myquillyn “The Nester” Smith, Jennifer Allwood, and Carey Nieuwhof. In 2015, he partnered with Emily P. Freeman and her dad Gary to start hope*writers, a paid membership community of writers which Brian helped grow to almost 4,000 members as the Director of Growth.

Brian is the bestselling author of Start with Your People, published by Zondervan an imprint of HarperCollins. He’s appeared on hundreds of podcasts and been a featured speaker on stages such as Elite Blog Academy, Activate, Social Media Marketing World, and TedX.

He and his wife Julie are celebrating their 20th year of marriage and have three entrepreneurial minded kids. (His oldest son sold his online membership site BibleBuilds.com to New York Times Bestselling author Jefferson Bethke when he was 10 years old.) The Dixons proudly reside in beautiful Charlotte, North Carolina.

Why name the mastermind "Arise and Build?"

In the familiar Old Testament story, Nehemiah was burdened. He had a vision of what was to be but he needed the supplies and support to make it a reality. When those around him started to doubt in the goal, he replied, “The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build.”

You have a vision for what’s possible in your industry. You want to help your followers and clients grow in your specific area of teaching, and you’ve been able to push past so much of the fear, doubt, and uncertainty that comes with sharing your message online these days. But you know that so much more is possible. What if you could leapfrog your competition and fast forward three years ahead of your closest peers?

That’s what the Arise and Build mastermind is all about. It’s an eight, high-level mastermind focused on helping you become the market leader in your industry.