Chief Master Greg Moody, Ph.D. — Discipline is the Foundation

★ KarateBuilt Founder ★ Chief Master Greg Moody, 8th Degree Black Belt, in action

Martial Arts · Nearly 4 Decades on the Floor

Founder, KarateBuilt Martial Arts

Most of what I teach in business started on the training floor. 18,000+ students. 1,800+ Black Belts produced. Schools named National School of the Year eight times. Programs for kids who need confidence, families who train together, and adult professionals who want a different kind of pressure to think under.

The discipline practice on the floor turned out to be the same discipline that builds books, businesses, and the calls leaders make under pressure. One foundation, many domains.

Chief Master 8th Degree Black Belt ATA Instructor of the Year 1,800+ Black Belts Produced

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Who I Work With

Five kinds of people read this site and they want different things from it. All of them have a decision nobody else is going to make for them, whether that’s running a company, running a school, raising a kid, or sitting across from a client. 61 articles here, all free.

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Decision-Makers Under Pressure

You’re the one who decides. Founders, executives, owners, partners, department heads, board members, anyone who has the call land on their desk with nobody else coming to make it. Most of the bad calls are not information problems (I thought they were, for years). It’s usually a pattern you’ve been running since long before this decision showed up – and you can usually spot it in somebody else in about a minute, and not in your OWN head. 15 articles here. If you want to know which pattern is yours, the diagnostic is 10 questions and it’ll tell you.

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Martial Arts School Owners

35+ years running schools, and I still get on the phone about the same handful of numbers. 17 articles here on the school floor: the enrollment conversation, the whole phone script, staff training, renewals, and what to do when a family says not right now. 18,000+ students, 1,800+ Black Belts produced, National School of the Year eight times. Stuck on a number? Get on a call and we’ll look at it together!

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Parents & Families

Kids who look an adult in the eye, finish what they start, and don’t fall apart when something gets hard. That tends to stay with them a long time after they stop training. 13 articles on where your authority as a parent actually comes from and how it changes as they get older (including the four-part Parental Authority series, which starts with which risks to a kid are real and which ones we worry about anyway). Want your kid training? Come see us at KarateBuilt.

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Psychology

16 articles, including the nine-part series, Prediction, Control, and the Regulating Mind. Emotions as error signals in a feedback loop, the CBT model mapped onto a control loop, the autism and self-injury cases… and four results the model forbids, stated up front so somebody can go prove it wrong. Written for clinicians, though you don’t have to be one to follow it.

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Business Playbooks

14 articles that work in any business, not only mine: the plateau lifecycle, conflict resolution, what counts as a lead, the conversation that moves a customer off price, and answering every review you get (yes, every one!). Every one of them got built because a real business had the problem first.

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Aspiring Authors

20 books, four of them #1 Amazon bestsellers. If you’re writing one you’re probably asking the same things everybody asks me… Is it any good? Will anybody buy it? That’s what Rev Publish does. Get on a call and bring the manuscript.

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Not sure which one fits? Schedule the call and we’ll figure it out together. It’s 20 minutes, and I’ll tell you if I’m not the right fit.

What Clients Say

Selected from 30 years of work with leaders, schools, healthcare systems, and martial arts professionals worldwide.

Dr. Moody helped us change our program from top to bottom: curriculum, memberships, programs, pricing. The result: our business has doubled.

William Babin

School Owner · Consulting Engagement

Chief Master Greg Moody has always been at the forefront of developing new programs to help people in martial arts. He has been instrumental, both in Arizona and now world-wide, in developing marketing and business plans and most recently in the development of a Bullying Prevention program. I have seen firsthand the impact that his programs have had on children training at martial arts schools across the country.

Sarah Perry

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Dr. Moody's knowledge of martial arts, curriculum design, marketing, IT systems, sales, and working with challenged and gifted children allows him to contribute greatly to all projects. Each program we have developed together has raised the standards within our industry.

Rick Abair, CMCA®, AMS®

Director of Human Resources, SBB Management Company

Dr. Moody is one of the most focused and passionate people I've ever had the opportunity to work with. He took the lead in moving the project from a concept into a fully developed and well-executed endeavor, and it reaped dividends for all involved stakeholders.

Ian Truitner

RANDIAN

Mr. Moody delivered a well-researched training for my staff of teachers. His presentation was meaningful, personal, and contained many activities to keep us engaged. I would recommend his services to anyone who needs training.

Jennifer Hinckley

School Psychologist

Greg Moody epitomizes the professional martial arts instructor and business owner. His concern for our nation's children is evident in his tireless work with anti-bullying programs, training thousands of other instructors in the Olweus Bully Prevention system.

Anthony Hubble

Enterprise Service Manager, ALAKA'INA FOUNDATION

Discipline is the foundation — of martial arts, business, and how we think about ourselves and life.