From the inventors of the concepts "Mindset" and "Find Your WHY"
. . . over 50 years ago.
Get Control Of Your Winning Mindset
. . . to boost your organization's speed, market advantage, and sales
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Over 30,000 CEOs
and 7,000,000 Students Trained
In over 60 countries
Now It's YOUR Turn!
Hi. I'm Don Schmincke
How did I end up researching management theory failure rates, and transforming how strategic planning and culture change occurred?
No idea. As an MIT and Johns Hopkins researcher, I was nearly arrested as a capitalist spy in the Soviet Bloc, got shot off an aircraft carrier, survived in the Kurdish capital as Tehran held hostages, was the first white person allowed into an African Tsonga village, explored religious integration in Vietnamese mountain tribes, developed missile-guidance systems while my frat brothers took Vegas (later portrayed in the movie “21”), and was caught taking my kids to a North Korean DMZ minefield. (Bad dad!)
But my background in planetary physics, AI, biomedical engineering, and many global expeditions provided a unique foundation for discovering how humans group for work, play, reproduction, civilization, and war. And my partnering with Lou Tice's early research for The Pacific Institute just catapulted it a new levels!
Now let's talk about what you want?

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Bestselling books in over 12 languages
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Senior member recognition by IEEE (the world’s largest organization for the advancement of technology)
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Top 10 speaker awards in the world’s largest CEO organization
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Over 2,000 speeches across five continents.
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Transform Your Strategic Planning Process
It's more than analytical tools and offsites.
Refresh a stale, analytical process and take executive team thinking to new strategic levels. Use scientific, evidence-based methods to explose myths causing high failure rates of strategic plans. Fresh insights discovered by Don Schmincke while at Johns Hopkins couples the latest sciences with the most ancient insights to produce a proprietary program developed with 30,000 CEOs in over 100 industries.
Boost Organizational Performance
It Starts With The Individual
Our world-class proprietary, scientifically-validated, "mindsetting", techniques (we invented the term) remove self-imposed, limiting beliefs to increase employee engagement, break down silos, drive teaming, increase accountability, and enhance creativity.
Creating a high performance mindsets is our specialty.


Assess Your Organization
Go beyond corporate culture and 360s
Identify where your hot spot is before spending time and money on the next shiny object.
Our assessment tools show how leadership and culture impact your organization to give you the competitive edge
Winning by mythbusting the lies, myths, and delusions of management gets you better traction in your:
- career
- sales
- talent
- culture
- competitive advantage
See what a MIT and Johns Hopkins researcher discovered.
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