We help people who think they're good at life become truly extraordinary at living it.
Build your business and your life on the same operating system. Prepare2Rise helps founders, entrepreneurs, and leaders create clarity around what matters, where they're going, and how to execute without sacrificing everything else along the way.
See whether the RISE Install is right for you.
Prepare2Rise is a founder coaching and leadership development company built around the RISE Operating System.
We work with founders, entrepreneurs, executives, and high performers who have learned how to achieve professionally but want greater clarity and alignment across their business, health, relationships, personal goals, and the way they spend their time.
Through one-on-one founder coaching, leadership development, practical tools, and the RISE framework, Prepare2Rise helps people move from reactive success to intentional execution — the same shift laid out in Successfully Mediocre.
Most founders don't have a motivation problem. They have an alignment problem.
You built it for freedom. It runs your calendar instead.
Work gets your best energy. Home gets what's left.
Your mind is still at the office long after you've left it.
You know exactly what to do. It never makes the calendar.
Drifting in person. Winning by every metric except the ones that matter at 9 p.m.
The goal isn't more success for the sake of success. It's building success around what actually matters.
The RISE Operating System is Prepare2Rise's framework for connecting personal clarity with strategy and consistent execution. Four stages, run across the seven domains of your life — not just the part that pays you.
Clarify your values, current reality, priorities, and limiting beliefs.
Define the future you are building and turn that vision into meaningful goals.
Determine what deserves your time, what needs to change, and how you will close the gap.
Put the plan into your calendar, build consistent rhythms, review progress, and adjust.
The RISE Install is a one-on-one founder coaching program designed to help you put your business and your life on the same operating system.
Over 12 weeks, you work through clarity, goals, strategy, execution, accountability, and the rhythms required to keep the system running after the coaching ends.
Sessions are every other week on purpose. The off-weeks are where you practice, because we're installing a system, not renting you a cheerleader.
If your week-12 scores haven't moved from week 1, we keep working until they do.
We work with 20 clients at a time.
We also deliver RISE through keynotes, workshops, and team training. See speaking & team offers.
We're Jeff Marshall and Chris Dixon. We've run companies at the executive level, built businesses of our own, led one of the most respected coaching programs in the country, and delivered this framework to U.S. Army Special Forces units and Fortune 500 teams. We wrote Successfully Mediocre because we lived it. Then we built the way out. We install the RISE Operating System in founders' lives, one on one. And we train the teams they lead. More about Jeff, Chris, and Brandon.
How to Stop Living on Autopilot and Start Living on Purpose
For high performers who look successful on paper but know something is missing, Successfully Mediocre introduces the complete RISE Operating System for creating greater clarity, direction, strategy, and intentional execution.
Start applying the RISE framework with free tools designed to help you understand where you are, clarify what matters, and identify what deserves your attention next — including the Free Life Assessment and the RISE Companion Guide.
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Read Article →Beyond one-on-one founder coaching, we deliver RISE to leadership teams and organizations through keynotes, workshops, and team training — including sessions delivered to Fortune 500 teams and U.S. Army Special Forces units.
Clients and readers get invited into experiences that test the system in the real world.
RISE doesn't stop at your life. Prepare2Rise.ai is our business division: systems, automation, AI, and strategy for companies that want to grow on purpose. It starts with the Growth Infrastructure Assessment: we Reflect on how your business actually runs, Identify what's broken and what's possible, Strategize the fix, and Execute the build. The assessment has been deployed across more than 100 companies.
If you've built something successful but know the next level needs a better operating system, start with a conversation.
Prefer to start on your own? Explore Successfully Mediocre →