We invented the concepts of Mindset and Find Your WHY . . . over 50 years ago

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Hi. I'm Don Schmincke

How did I end up researching management theory failure rates, and transforming strategic planning and culture change?

No idea. As an MIT and Johns Hopkins researcher, the journey was nonlinear. 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, help me learn from many global expeditions to discovering how humans group for work, play, reproduction, civilization, and war.

That's how we invented the leadership concepts "Mindset" and "Find Your WHY"
. . . over 50 years ago.

But I'm more interested in what you want.

Bestselling books in over 12 languages
Senior member recognition in the IEE E(the world’s largest organization for the advancement of technology)
Top 10 speaker awards in the world’s largest CEO organization
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.

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