Who is Dream Bigger Now TODAY and what should we know about you?
As CEO of Dream Bigger Now TODAY and a Wharton-certified Executive Presence Coach, I help leaders and organizations tell and sell a better story. Our core belief is that you are worthy and capable of your biggest dreams, but achieving them takes more than desire. It takes an edge. I believe presence is that edge, and it’s a skill you can master, not a trait you’re born with. So what are you going to do TODAY to get that edge? That’s where my work comes in.
What you need to know about me is that I’m a hometown girl, a Nashville native, who came back because my dreams got bigger than my role. I left Nashville after graduating from Hume Fogg Academic High School to chase big global dreams: a B.S. in Marketing, International Business, and French from the University of Tennessee, then an International MBA from the Darla Moore School of Business, ranked the number one international business program in the country. That path led me to pivotal roles in Paris and New York, working alongside some of the biggest and most influential companies in the world.
Along the way, I led a $250 million media budget at State Farm’s corporate headquarters and built Stevie Award-winning sales enablement programs as Global Head of Enablement at LiveRamp. I lived those dreams for the better part of twenty years. But in 2025, I left that role and came back to Nashville, because the next dream, giving leaders the edge to achieve their biggest dreams, could only happen if I stepped up as CEO of our business.
That business is one my mom, Rita P. Mitchell, and I cofounded in 2017, built on her TEDx talk and our bestselling book, “Own Your Phenomenal Self: A Guide on Character, Success, and Leadership.” When I stepped into the CEO seat in 2025, it became something bigger: a company built to help leaders and organizations find their edge through confidence, clarity, conviction, and the kind of career power moves that change the game entirely.
What has been the most valuable aspect of your Chamber membership?
The Chamber is the pulse of this city, woven into big business, small business, government, and nonprofit alike. Being selected for the Leadership Connect program was the deciding factor in building my company here instead of in New York, where I’ve spent the past seven years. I still travel back and forth, but Nashville is where I’ve planted my flag, and working closely with the Chamber, including this year’s leadership study mission trip to Miami, has been part of reconnecting to a city I’ve watched grow so much since my Hume Fogg days.
People say you get out what you put in, but for me it’s been stronger than that. I see endless opportunity in aligning my reintroduction to Nashville as an entrepreneur with the work the Chamber is already doing. I’m also now a Chamber Ambassador, so expect to see me at plenty of ribbon cuttings this year.
What is unique about your business that makes you stand out?
Anyone can recognize executive presence when they see it. Very few people know what it’s actually built from, or how to take someone’s presence from simply professional to undeniably powerful and influential.
Executive coaching isn’t new. What’s unique about my work is that I’m a Wharton-certified Executive Presence Coach with a tried-and-true methodology for building the confidence, clarity, and conviction, and eventually the career power moves, that get people the results they’ve earned but haven’t been able to reach. I’ve used this methodology with clients across a wide range of industries, from education to real estate to construction to manufacturing to healthcare to craft beer to enterprise tech and beyond. I have the unique ability to learn how any discipline works, understand what someone wants and what’s blocking them, and make a few precise tweaks to how they show up, communicate, and hold a room that change their trajectory for good.
What makes that skillset possible is a combination nobody else brings: Fortune 50 marketing and advertising experience, enterprise B2B SaaS sales at the highest level, Stevie Award-winning enablement programs I built from scratch, and a global perspective from living and working abroad. My clients consistently tell me it’s the best workshop, training, strategic planning, or coaching experience they’ve ever had, and that they didn’t know that kind of transformation was possible until they experienced it with me.
Can you share why the Nashville region is a good place to do business?
I’ve spent the past seven years in New York, a city I dreamed of living in since I was a kid, so the best way I can answer this is through comparison. New York gives you “proximity”: to greatness, talent, creativity, and business at the highest levels, but you’re often on the outside of a lot of doors, hustling to break through.
Nashville gives you “access.” If you’re bold and talented enough to work the room, you can actually walk through the door. It’s still a big small town where local is loved, memories are long, and relationships run deep, so access alone doesn’t guarantee a deal. You still need real sales skills and relationship skills. to close. But the distance between “no one knows me” and “I’m in the right room” is shorter here than almost anywhere else I’ve lived or worked in my career.
How do you stay involved in the community?
I stay connected through my client work across Nashville, executive presence coaching, strategic planning, and facilitation, and through speaking. I’m giving the closing keynote at the Tennessee Nonprofit Network conference this September. As a Chamber Ambassador, I’m at ribbon cuttings regularly. I serve on the board of YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee, as well as Secretary of Black Obsidian Nashville (B-ON), and on the University of Tennessee Nashville Alumni Chapter board.
Each month, I also publish The Executive Presence Edge, a newsletter and leadership interview series where I sit down with people like Stephanie Coleman, CEO of the Nashville Chamber, Sean Henry, CEO of the Nashville Predators, Dr. Alfred Degrafinreid II, President and CEO of Leadership Tennessee, and Seth Bernstein, CEO of AllianceBernstein, to talk about what’s really behind their presence.
And since I’m a visual artist at heart, you’ll often find me at the Frist or a local gallery, or out at a Nashville restaurant or cafe sketching a little something from my visit and posting it, just a fun way I stay connected to the local businesses I love.
What do you want to be known for in the business community?
My North Star is becoming the undisputed global face of executive presence, the person people think of when they’re doing great work but they can’t cross that last barrier between where they are and where they’ve earned the right to be. My friends call me Britt “The Edge” Mitchell, and that’s exactly what I want to give people: that one small, powerful adjustment, like someone squaring up your shot, so all the work they’ve already put in finally lands nothing but net.