The  Samurai Leadership Edge

Ancient Secrets That Rapidly Sharpen
Your Professional Performance

 

Even if you're feeling stuck, overlooked, or overwhelmed at work.

 

Gain the skills to:

  • Turn workplace challenges into career breakthroughs

  • Boost your confidence and resilience under pressure

  • Stand out clearly and positively to leadership

  • Transform overwhelm into empowered action

  • Advance your career faster by mastering timeless leadership strategies

 

Unlock your true potential with proven Samurai wisdom tailored for today's professional.

Stop waiting. Start leading.

The exclusive leadership program 
developed at Johns Hopkins University and based on the bestseller

"The Code of the Executive"

by Don Schmincke 

. . . and his work with over 15,000 CEOs

Like many, you have days where:  

  • You want more success faster.
  • You hold back from taking risks.
  • You get frustrated by being passed over.
  • You feel you're not getting enough recognition.
  • You're afraid your career lacks purpose. 

But you've done all the right things.

  • Put in long hours
  • Took on new projects 
  • Attended the company training programs
  • Read all the best-selling, self-help books
  • Have the certifications
  • Watched the TEDx videos
  • . . . and have a coach.

So, do you stay quiet and frustrated?

 

Or continue arguing with your manager? 

 

 

. . .  But there Is Another Way

Training over 15,000 CEO’s revealed 3 alarming discoveries stopping employee careers...

Discovery #1:

Your manager wants you to do what you've been avoiding:

 

  • - Take more risks.

  • - Help get at the truth.

  • - Call someone out on their accountability.

  • - Challenge new ideas.

  • - Expose dead-end projects.

  • - Be honest.

 

And stop hiding in the masses!

Discovery #2:

You're not failing management, management theories are failing you 

 

Scholarly research finds management theories fail to implement 70-90% of the time. Even in companies loaded with bestselling books on leadership, I see wars raging on as executives try to make needed changes, and weary employees try to resist.

Discovery #3:

There's nothing wrong with your career development efforts!

You probably know more than enough about what to do to become very successful.

 

Something deeper sabotages you by causing you to:

  • - Hesitate

  • - Hang on to old beliefs

  • - Let ego get in the way

  • - Not be brave enough

  • - Resist change

  • - Get sucked into politics

Fear and Selfishness

STOP 

FEAR and SELFISHNESS

from sabotaging your leadership

 

 

How?

 

The answer was buried in ancient secrets codified over 700 years ago.(1) 

 

Oxford gave me permission to publish it.

 

I then trained over 15,000 CEOs.

 

 

Now I'm going to teach it to YOU.


 (1) the content emerged during the Japanese Heian period (794–1185) and formalized during the Kamakura period (1185–1333).

Hello, I’m Don Schmincke

At MIT and Johns Hopkins I studied planetary physics, biomedical engineering, and genetic evolution. Then I spent 30 years on global expeditions researching strategic performance of humans.

Like many other "thought-leader" consultants, I have the usual credentials . . .

  • Written books (3 best-sellers)
  • Delivered over 2,000 speeches
  • Been awarded as a top 10 speaker (for world’s largest CEO organization)
  • Top 20 Business Minds Award
  • Lifetime Achievement Speaker Award
  • Trained over 15,000 CEO’s in over 100 industries

Yet, I’m the guy they bring in when all the “experts” fail. 

Incredible experiences resulted from my research:

  • 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 brought into an African Tsonga village
  • developed missile inertial guidance systems while my frat brothers took Vegas (later exposed in the movie “21”)

 

So, yeah, I’ve been through a lot figuring out how to help you solve your leadership and career challenges.

INTRODUCING

 

Designed for busy people.

 

 

Strengthen your performance in just 7-modules:

  • Fast, short video lessons (only 5 - 7 minutes long)
  • Immediate, on-the-spot implementation exercises
  • Rapid instructional modalities
  • Brief, easily consumable content
  • Useful downloads

 

Performance checkpoints

with your manager

ensure your success!

Why Use Samurai Training?

(a brief 20-second overview)

 

What's In The Program?

MODULE 1: Initiation
Prepare yourself emotionally, mentally, and physically for the journey ahead. 

MODULE 2: Fear
Identify what stops you from reaching higher, taking risks, and improving your performance.  Learn how to move beyond your fears, and seek higher potential.

MODULE 3: Death
Sustaining strength requires continuous evolution. Change is necessary. What must "die" in order for you to ascend higher? 

MODULE 4: Dying
Primal, selfish, ego-driven behaviors hinder growth and performance. Understand how to deal with removing the EGO and let go of what's holding you back.

MODULE 5: Progress Checkpoint
Here you check your development with your manager or trusted colleague. The observations and feedback help you evolve and drive your journey to the next level.

MODULE 6: Bravery
How to be brave enough to do the right thing, create superior results, make wise decisions, and honor your values and purpose.

MODULE 7: Honor
Honor is critical for successful leadership. It drives trust, honesty, and integrity. Your journey becomes strained when disrespect arises from others, but a Samurai has no excuse to violate this Code.

Too busy?

Exactly why you need this!

 

The busiest professionals always invest time sharpening the blade.

 

Transform your "busyness" into bold, strategic action. 

 

Now dig deeper and explore a new level within yourself.

Imagine the Impact If You Were: 

Brave enough to:

- Take on greater challenges

- Act courageously without fear

- Embrace and lead change with less resistance 

- Make faster decisions

Honorable enough to:

- Follow your ideals and purpose

- Not be distracted by politics

- Gain increased respect as a leader

- Be admired for accountability

 

Strategic enough to:

- Accelerate your career growth

- Enhance your pay

- Open more career opportunities 

- Be recognized and rewarded more

- Solve problems effectively

FAQs

What are the consequences if you wait?

  • Less recognition and rewards

  • Continued pain and frustration

  • Wasted time

  • Harder work day

  • Missed financial opportunities

  • More fear and doubt

Time to Strengthen Your Career and Leadership

The future isn't going to wait for you

Individual Student Tuition 

$2750

  • Group discounts available. 
  • Group progress coaching option available.
Enroll Here