Our Story
Our passion is to empower vISIONARIES with the tools to boldly express their truth with confidence and clarity at every level of the customer journey.
Forged in the heart of downtown St. Louis in 2012, ModernDojo™ Design was founded by Adam Hopkins as a vehicle to position mission-driven businesses, organizations, and non-profits to thrive in the modern era by navigating the intersections of diversity and inclusion through authentic brand expression, content development, and digital marketing.
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Why?
Good People Deserve Better Branding.
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Vision
Empower 10,000 businesses, entreprenuers and creatives to authentically express their brands with clarity and power by 2030.
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Mission
Our Mission is to empower visionaries with the tools to boldly express their truth with confidence and clarity.
ETHOS
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“The Best Brands Have The Best Words”
Powerful branding starts with powerful words and those words are only as valuable as the depth of truth that lies within them. Success is directly tied to our relationship with the acceptance of truth independent of our bias and perspective. By operating in the discipline seeking truth even when its uncomfortable, we are able to see a more accurate depiction of the reality that surrounds us. The only things that spreads faster than bad news are the truths that you cannot escape from. We pursue and yield to truth in all things; for ourselves, our clients, and each other.
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“Learning occurs at the speed of humility.”
The best way to experience, foster, and incite innovation is by listening more, talking less, and being far more afraid of seeing your ideas forgotten than you are of them failing.By challenging ourselves on every project and pushing the aesthetic, our approach, the software, our systems, the client, and ourselves, we are able to guarantee that our clients get the best of The Dojo at every outing. Our commitment to inspiring innovation allows us to push past discomfort and into the unknown - where all the cool stuff lives.
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“We Stand On The Shoulders Of Those That Came Before Us - Never Forget Where You Came From.”
We are all the sum total of the experiences we’ve had, the communities we’re from, and the stories we carry. This is a belief that lies at the core of how we treat our own journey as a company, our clients, and each other. This allows us to apply grace to ourselves and to our clients at every opportunity. It also means that we take pride in showing reverence for the greatness that ALREADY exists and precedes us l in every room. As such, we study, observe, and document what has been done so that one day we may also have the honor of supporting those that would come after us and beyond.
Meet the Team
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Adam Hopkins
Founder & Principal
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Victoria Griffin
Accounts Manager & Client Success
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Vanessa Powell
Operations Manager
Sales and marketing are often perceived as similar if not the same depending on who you ask. While they may be closely intertwined, they are NOT the same. In fact, one MUST precede the other.