AARON HENSLEY + RISE NATION

Build Leaders. Build Systems. Build Legacy.

RISE Nation is the ecosystem Aaron Hensley built to help coaches, martial arts school owners, faith-driven leaders, fitness leaders, and service-based entrepreneurs turn expertise into scalable businesses that develop leaders, serve communities, and create lasting impact.

Leadership Architect | Founder of RISE Nation | Built 24 locations across 6 states | Multimillion-dollar exit

Built from 30+ years of leadership, business building, and real-world operational experience.

Rise Nation Regional Summit — East Coast

iron sharpens iron.

Three days. One mission. Sharper leaders.

You don't get sharper sitting still. You get sharper around people who push you. That's what this is built for. Three days with the school owners, instructors, athletes, and leaders who refuse to coast.

July 24–26, 2026

Greater Boston Area, MA

Leadership · Training · Business Growth

This Is Your Room.

The room
that lifts
the ceiling.


The RISE Nation Regional Summit is for the people who train, teach, lead, and build. Owners. Instructors. Athletes. Coaches. Pastors. Operators. If you've ever felt like the ceiling above you is your own — this is the room that lifts it.


We built this around three pillars. Mind, Body, Spirit. Ready, Set, RISE.

Mind / Ready

Leadership & Business Growth

Leadership development, coaching systems, and business growth. The thinking that builds the operator.

BODY/ SET

Training & Performance

Martial arts training, athletic performance, and physical development. The work that builds the warrior.

SPIRIT/ RISE

Faith, Purpose & Legacy

Faith, purpose, and personal leadership. The fire that builds the legacy.

WHO THIS IS FOR

Leadership development, coaching systems, and business growth. The thinking that builds the operator.

Leadership development, coaching systems, and business growth. The thinking that builds the operator.

Leadership development, coaching systems, and business growth. The thinking that builds the operator.

Leadership development, coaching systems, and business growth. The thinking that builds the operator.

Leadership development, coaching systems, and business growth. The thinking that builds the operator.

THE EVENT AT A GLANCE

FRI - JUL 24

Leadership & Instructor Development

sat - JUL 25

Main Summit Experience

sun - JUL 26

Faith, Youth & Advanced Development

full schedule

three days.

every iron.

12:00 – 1:00 PM

Check-In & Registration

Packet pickup, early networking

1:10 – 2:00 PM

Opening Ceremony

Demo Team Performance with Nick Poehls (M.A.R.S. Systems) and Team RISE. Opening remarks from Aaron Hensley.

2:00 – 4:00 PM

RISE4MORE Teacher · Trainer · Coach Lab

Develop elite instructors, build student leadership, master class structure

Aaron Hensley

4:00 – 5:30 PM

Breakout Round 1

PICK ONE

Main Mat: CoachXpert Platform Builder — Aaron Hensley

Fitness Floor: Women Who Lead the Mat — Laikyn Smith + Marie Hensley

5:00 PM

VIP Off-Site Experience 

Inner Circle + In The Cloud Only

Venue announced soon

6:00 – 8:00 PM

Breakout Round 2 

PICK ONE

Main Mat: Weapons Curriculum & Structure Systems — Nick Poehls

Fitness Floor: Sales & Enrollment Leadership — Landynn Link + Cam Smith

8:00 – 9:00 PM

RISE Nation Networking Social

Community, conversation, connection

Session Leaders

The people
in your corner.

Aaron Hensley

Event Director · Founder, RISE Nation

➧ Friday TTC Lab

➧ CoachXpert Platform Builder

➧ Sunday Instructor Development Lab

➧ Opening + Closing Sessions

Pastor James Braxton Powell

Keynote Speaker

➧ Saturday Keynote: Stay In The Fight

➧ Better Legacy Intensive

➧ Sunday Worship Service

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Aaron Hensley

Event Director · Founder, RISE Nation

➧ Friday TTC Lab

➧ CoachXpert Platform Builder

➧ Sunday Instructor Development Lab

➧ Opening + Closing Sessions

Aaron Hensley

Event Director · Founder, RISE Nation

➧ Friday TTC Lab

➧ CoachXpert Platform Builder

➧ Sunday Instructor Development Lab

➧ Opening + Closing Sessions

Aaron Hensley

Event Director · Founder, RISE Nation

➧ Friday TTC Lab

➧ CoachXpert Platform Builder

➧ Sunday Instructor Development Lab

➧ Opening + Closing Sessions

Aaron Hensley

Event Director · Founder, RISE Nation

➧ Friday TTC Lab

➧ CoachXpert Platform Builder

➧ Sunday Instructor Development Lab

➧ Opening + Closing Sessions

THE EVENT AT A GLANCE

FRI - JUL 24

Leadership & Instructor Development

sat - JUL 25

Main Summit Experience

sun - JUL 26

Faith, Youth & Advanced Development

PROVEN IN THE TRENCHES  ·  BUILT FOR BUILDERS

Build Better Businesses.
Build Better Leaders.

STILL BUILDING IT

Build the Business You Were Born to Build.

Your next ceiling isn't growth — it's structure. You already know how to work hard. Now you need the systems, scripts, scorecards, and operating rhythm that move you from owner-operator to CEO.

ALREADY BUILT IT  ·  PROVEN OPERATOR

Multiply What You've Already Built.

The next ceiling isn't more hours, more locations, or more grind. It's turning your hard-won method into a coaching business that helps other builders win — while creating more freedom, more impact, and more purpose for your family, your calling, and your faith.

THE RISE METHOD

The System You Install Today
Is the System You'll Teach Tomorrow.

The RISE Method is how I scaled from $50 to $7M. It's what we install inside RISE4MORE when you're still building — and help you package, teach, and coach inside CoachXpert once you've proven it works.

R

REACH

Engineer attention. Create conversations. Fill the funnel.

Learn the weekly reach system that turns visibility into opportunity — through content, outreach, referrals, partnerships, and consistent follow-up. Stop hoping people find you. Build the rhythm that brings the right people to you.


I

INVITE

Turn attention into action.

Learn the invitation system that turns strangers into conversations, conversations into clients, and weak follow-up into reliable show-ups. The goal is simple: more qualified people taking the next step — without chasing, begging, or hoping they remember.


S

SERVE

Turn attention into action.Close with service. Enroll with skill.

Learn the scripts, structure, and leadership language that turn sales conversations into service-driven decisions — without pressure, gimmicks, or chasing.


E

EXPERIENCE

Build an experience people want to stay in, pay more for, and invite others into.

Retention is designed through better onboarding, clearer milestones, stronger community, and consistent moments of progress. When the experience is built right, clients do not just stay — they bring their family and friends with them.


"Structure Before Scale. Systems Before Staff. Don't Scale Chaos."

 — AARON HENSLEY

FOUR WAYS IN  ·  ONE MISSION  ·  ONE NATION

Pick the Door That Fits
Where You Are Right Now.

FROM SKILL TO SCALE

FOR COACHES, CONSULTANTS & EXPERTS

COACHEXPERT

Turn What You Built Into What You Teach. Multiply Your Expertise. Impact More Lives.

CoachXpert helps proven operators turn their experience into a scalable coaching platform — with the frameworks, offers, curriculum, content, and coaching systems needed to teach what they know with authority.

â–¸ Built a business that works

â–¸ Ready to package your expertise

â–¸ Done being your own bottleneck

â–¸ People ask how you did it

â–¸ Want a real coaching platform

â–¸ Ready to multiply leaders, not dependent clients

ALSO INSIDE RISE NATION

RISE4MORE

Still Building the Business

For service-based operators ready to scale from proof of concept to $1M+ with structure, not chaos.


RISE4MORE helps owners install the systems, scripts, sales process, scorecards, team rhythms, and leadership standards needed to grow beyond hustle and build a business that can actually scale.

ASCEND

Leaders Building Leaders

ASCEND is a leadership membership syndicate for students, families, coaches, and training organizations across martial arts, fitness, dance, gymnastics, sports, and youth development.

 

It gives like-minded people a bigger training family — united by shared standards, skill development, personal growth, and leadership identity beyond any one school, gym, studio, team, or style.

RISE Martial Arts

The Proof. The Flagship.

A first-of-its-kind kids-only martial arts school built to teach, train, and prove the RISE leadership method with real students and real results.

 

Designed with intention to help children develop discipline, confidence, character, and the leadership skills needed to become strong future leaders.

MEET YOUR NEW MENTOR

He Built It. Scaled It.
Sold It. Now He Builds the builders.

Aaron Hensley started with $50, a mat in a strip mall, and the belief that vision, focus, hard work, and God's grace could turn his skill into impact.

 

Since he was seven years old, Aaron felt called to teach, coach, and guide others toward something bigger.

 

That calling grew into a martial arts company spanning 24 locations, 6 states, $7M+ in annual revenue, and a multimillion-dollar exit.

Then he did the thing most operators never do: he stopped being the center of the business and started building the people who could carry the standard.

Today, Aaron helps service-based entrepreneurs build what he had to learn the hard way: structure, leadership, scripts, scorecards, systems, and disciplined execution.

 

His proof was built in martial arts.

His method applies to any business where people, service, sales, retention, and leadership drive the outcome.

 

At the center of it all: God, leadership, legacy, and the mission to develop leaders who build leaders.

"Develop leaders who build leaders."

THE RESULTS

Different Industries.
Same Method. Real Numbers.

"CoachXpert gave me the infrastructure I'd been building in my head for years. Now I have 14 coaching clients and a business that runs when I'm not in it."

Marcus T.

Fitness Operator

"I'd been coaching informally for three years, charging nothing. Inside CoachXpert I packaged it, priced it, and launched a $3,000/month program in 60 days."

Diane R.

Business Consultant

"The RISE Method isn't just what Aaron teaches — it's how he runs his operation. Seeing it applied inside CoachXpert changed how I see my entire school."

James K.

Martial Arts School Owner

RISE LIVE · TWO ROOMS, EVERY MONTH

ONE ROOM BUILDS COACHES.

ONE ROOM BUILDS OPERATORS.

Every month, we host two free live trainings for two different builders:

 

CoachXpert — for experts ready to turn their skill into a scalable coaching platform.

RISE4MORE — for service operators ready to build systems, leadership, sales, and structure.

 

Two rooms. Two paths. One mission: build leaders who build leaders.

POWERED BY COACHEXPERT

From Skill to Scale

How to Turn What You Know Into a Coaching Business That Scales.

For experts, consultants, and service pros ready to multiply.

📅  4th Thursday · Monthly · 12:00 PM ET

POWERED BY RISE4MORE

From Chaos to CEO

How to Stop Running on Instinct and Start Running a Real Business.

For service business operators still installing the build.

📅 2nd Thursday · Monthly · 12:00 PM ET

IN THE ROOM WITH AARON · LIVE EVENTS 2026

Where the Builders

Gather.

Webinars start the relationship.

Live events build the movement.

 

RISE Live is built in three ascending tiers — each increasing in access, proximity, and transformation — for leaders ready to move from learning the method to living it.

JUNE 22–24, 2026 · LAS VEGAS

CoachXpert Live

Turn Skill Into Scale.

A 3-day live build room for active CoachXpert members ready to accelerate their coaching platform, sharpen their offer, build their frameworks, and turn their expertise into a scalable business.

JULY 24–26, 2026  ·  GREATER BOSTON AREA

rise Regional Summit

Iron Sharpens Iron.

Three days for school owners, instructors, athletes, coaches, and leaders ready to sharpen the standard. Mind. Body. Spirit. The first official gathering in the RISE regional summit series.

EOUR BIGGEST EVENT OF THE YEAR

DEC 18–20, 2026 · LAS VEGAS

RISE Nation Summit

Build What Outlives You.

The annual flagship event for the full RISE Nation movement. Five pillars. One room. A gathering designed to build leaders, strengthen families, sharpen operators, and move the mission forward.

BUSINESS · FAITH · FITNESS
FAMILY · CELEBRATION

THE INVITATION

Stop Building Alone. Start Multiplying What You've Already Built.

The next step is not more information.

It is the right room, the right standard, and the right system.

 

Choose where you are now — and step into the path that moves you forward.


â–¸ From Skill to Scale

For experts ready to turn expertise into a scalable coaching platform.

â–¸ From Chaos to CEO

For operators ready to install structure, systems, scripts, and scorecards.

â–¸ Live Events 2026

For builders ready to get in the room and grow through proximity.

“Discipline builds legacy. Belief builds movements.”"

 — AARON HENSLEY

We don't just build coaches. We build better leaders.

That is how the mission multiplies — through stronger people, better systems, and leaders equipped to carry the standard forward.

RISE Nation exists to build the person, build the leader, execute the standard, and scale the impact.