Brian Bean

Brian Bean is an award-winning educator with over 15 years of classroom experience. After being victimized by a Ponzi scheme, he developed a game-changing teaching method for personal finance that students can relate to and internalize. Mimic Personal Finance is an innovative platform simulation and curriculum that provides an engaging financial literacy application component for any course. Brian has presented the model at conferences and workshops across the country, including keynote addresses for Business Professionals of America and the Jump$tart National Educator Conference. He has been featured in podcasts, blogs, articles, and many other forums as an education innovator and is a current doctoral candidate at Vanderbilt's prestigious Peabody College of Education.