Your Life Is the Real Degree.
MBA in Happiness is a transformational framework designed to help you redefine success, build a business that fits your life, and create the kind of fulfillment no title or revenue number can give you.
Take the first step toward alignment.
You were taught how to achieve.
How to hustle. How to grow.
No one taught you how to feel at peace with what you're building.
Most entrepreneurs hit a wall, not of failure, but of misalignment. The business is running. The numbers are moving. And something still feels off.
If you don’t define success for yourself, someone else will gladly sell you their version.
This is the conversation most business books avoid.
MBA in Happiness is not about
slowing down, giving up, or settling.
It is about getting honest with yourself, your ambition, and the life you actually want to build.
Your business exists to serve your life, not the other way around.
Your ambition does not have to be louder. Your ambition has to be truer.
Happiness is not a someday destination. It is a way of living.
This is not another productivity program. This is a framework for alignment between who you are, what you’re building, and the life you want to live.
Who It’s For
This is for the entrepreneur who is done performing success and ready to feel it.
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MBA in Happiness is for:
Entrepreneurs and small business owners who feel successful on paper but unfulfilled in life
Mature professionals who are done chasing someone else’s definition of winning
Founders questioning whether the business they built is actually serving them
Anyone ready to ask, honestly, what they actually want
If you’re looking for 10X growth strategies, hustle culture fuel, or a formula to scale at all costs, this isn’t that.
This is for people who are ready to go deeper.
There are a few ways to engage
with the MBA in Happiness framework:
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Passionate Skills Workshop
AÂ focused, practical session that helps you identify where your passion, skills, and business opportunity meet. This is the most powerful exercise in the entire framework and it works in a single sitting.
MBA in Happiness: The Full Program
~8 hours of video. Five frameworks. Designed for entrepreneurs ready to go all the way through
the process.
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The Reflection Guide
A short, sharp guide to the MBA in Happiness philosophy. Designed to help you reflect, reset, and apply the core ideas in a simple, practical way.
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Hi, I’m David.
David Dodson has spent over 30 years as an entrepreneur, hospitality consultant, and business builder and most of that time asking a question most people avoid:
Are you making more money or more happiness?
The MBA in Happiness grew out of years of personal experience, real conversations with
founders, and a simple realization: the traditional metrics of success don’t account for the life
you’ re actually living.
He built this framework because he needed it. He’s sharing it because he knows he’s not alone.
Workshop facilitator. Entrepreneur. Author.
Founder of The Graceful Cookie.
