Forward Academy

Forward Academy â–˛ Neel Dhingra â–˛ Est. 2021

Visibility
Beats Ability

Being good gets you considered. Being known gets you called.

Forward Academy helps agents and loan officers get known for what they're already good at.

Forward Focus — the weekly email

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35,000+

Agents & loan officers on the Forward Focus list

4,700+

Tickets across six Forward events

1,250+

People currently in a Forward program

Forward Event numbers //
6 years running
1,000 attendees
Sold out 5 years running

Who this is for.

01

Real estate agents

You know your market cold. So does everyone else with a license. The difference is who they call first.

02

Mortgage loan officers

Rate and program aren't the edge anymore. Being the person they already trust is.

03

Owners and team leaders

Your growth is capped by how many people know what you stand for. Fix that and everything downstream gets easier.

04

Adjacent professionals

CPAs, financial advisors, insurance agents, and other referral-driven businesses where everyone looks the same on paper.

The rooms

Three rooms. Different depths.

Two days a year

Forward Event

Two days in Las Vegas with a thousand agents, loan officers and operators. Speakers from outside the industry, because the answers usually are. Sold out every year we've run it.

Twelve months, application only

Forward Mastermind

A small group of operators who are already winning and want to go further. Application only, one intake a year, and it fills from the room at the event.

Ongoing, monthly

Content Accelerator

The place to actually do the work. Over a thousand members, monthly training, and people posting what's working right now instead of what worked three years ago.

What people say

They'll tell you better than I can.

Forward Event

“The event this weekend was incredible. Filled with takeaways for me and our agents. You crushed it.”

Lindsey R.  Â·  SVP, Mortgage  Â·  California

Forward Mastermind

“I've added $8–10 million a month in closed volume. So grateful for this group.”

Greg W.  Â·  Loan Officer  Â·  Arizona

Content Accelerator

“My goal when I signed up was to get three solid leads from social before the end of the year, and I just got my third listing.”

Lisa S.  Â·  Real Estate Agent  Â·  Texas

Forward Event

“I'll never forget this year's Forward event. It was life-changing in more ways than you know.”

Donna C.  Â·  Luxury Realtor  Â·  California

400,000+

Followers across social

20+

Stages a year

Since 2004

In the business. Still in it.

About Neel

Nobody knew who I was either.

I built my career in the mortgage and real estate business, but the biggest thing that changed my business wasn't a better pitch or a better rate. It was people knowing who I was before we ever spoke.

I started making content because I wanted more control over where my business came from. I wanted the phone to ring. Referrals I didn't have to ask for. Conversations that started with trust instead of price.

It worked, and then it kept working. The content created conversations. The conversations created business. And eventually, people started asking me how I was doing it.

So I started teaching what I was actually doing. Not theory. Not something I learned in a course and turned around and taught. The strategies I was testing, what was working, and what I was learning from the mistakes I made along the way.

That's what eventually became Forward.

Today, the event, mastermind and accelerator all help people do the same thing at different levels: get known for what they're already good at.

And I'm still doing it too — running a business, making content, testing ideas and figuring out what actually works before I teach it.

I still believe the same thing I did on day one. You don't have to be the loudest person in your market. You just have to be the one they remember.

Every week I send one thing to work on. That's the whole email.

Forward Focus

One email a week. I write every one of them.

One thing each week to grow your personal brand and your business. What's working right now, what I'd do if I were starting over, and the occasional thing I got wrong. I write it myself — it's short on purpose, because you've got a business to run.

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