Empowering Professionals & Organizations Through Executive Education.
Experience deep learning, teamwork, and real-world impact.
WHAT WE DO.
We deliver transformational, MBA-level, cohort-based courses and programs—taught in English—for ambitious professionals and forward-thinking organizations.
Designed for those who are fully committed to learning, collaboration, and real-world impact—without the time and cost associated with pursuing a full-time MBA.
Fall Term: Sept. 15th – Mar. 31st
Onboarding & Pre-Work: from September 15th
Classes Begin: Week of September 29th
Classes End: Week of March 2nd
Develop Strategic Management Competency, the ability to systematically analyze competitive environments, diagnose problems, formulate action plans and strategic options (possibilities), make high-quality strategic decisions, and execute strategies that drive long-term organizational success.
Case-based learning; simulation-based learning; pacing for working professionals.
- Application Round 1: June 1 – June 30
- Application Round 2: July 15 – Aug 15
Discount available for successful Round 1 Applicants.
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Spring Term: Mar. 15th – July 31st
Onboarding & Pre-Work: from March 15th
Classes Begin: Week of April 6th
Classes End: Week of July 6th
Develop Entrepreneurial Management Competency, the ability to systematically generate business ideas, articulate and assess clear business concepts, design and validate business models, and prepare ventures for scalable and sustainable growth.
Project-based learning; pacing for business-building momentum.
- Application Round 1: Oct. 1 – Oct. 31
- Application Round 2: Nov. 15 – Dec. 31
Discount available for successful Round 1 Applicants.
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WHO WE SERVE.
Professionals
For individuals who want to work on achieving a better version of their professional selves so they can create more value and advance in their careers, we offer the following cohorts:
Strategy Course (Fall Term)
YOUNG PROFESSIONALS COHORT (YPC)
Monday Evenings in Tokyo
Early-stage professionals who are employed in – or aspiring to – roles that require strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making.
EXPERIENCED MANAGERS COHORT (EMC)
Friday Evenings in Tokyo
Experienced managers who have more than 10 years of work experience with substantial and relevant managerial experience and who want to sharpen their managerial tool kit.
Entrepreneurship Course (Spring Term)
ASPIRING ENTREPRENEURS COHORT (AEC)
Monday Evenings in Tokyo
Professionals who are considering launching a new business someday and want to practice the entrepreneurial process now.
ENTREPRENEURS COHORT (EC)
Friday Evenings in Tokyo
Active entrepreneurs, innovation managers, and family business successors who are in the early-stages of building a new business and want to use the course to help bring order to their process.
Organizations
For forward-thinking organizations that want a solution for developing their talent so they can think, communicate, collaborate, and manage themselves and others more effectively, leading to improvements in performance and productivity, we offer the following program options:
Strategy Course (Fall Term)
Program Option 1:
STRATEGY COURSE – LEARNING CONSORTIUM COHORT
(LCC)
Wednesday Evenings in Tokyo
Six Company-Sponsored Learning Teams (maximum six people per team) in a High-Impact, Cross-Industry Environment. Admissions criteria established in concert with the participating companies.
Program Option 2:
STRATEGY COURSE – DELIVERED TO YOUR ORGANIZATION COHORT (DC)
Thursday Evenings in Japan
Build Strategic Capability and Cohesion: One Organization with Six Learning Teams Staffed to Advance Your Talent Strategy, Strengthen Shared Business Language, and Accelerate Organizational Performance.
EDUCATION FOR JUDGMENT & LEARNING THAT TRANSFORMS YOU.
Education for Judgment emphasizes the development of critical thinking skills and the ability to make sound and reasoned decisions based on evidence, logic, and ethical principles.
Transformational Learning encourages you to challenge your assumptions about how the world works and to redefine your role within it.
Learners who fully engage in our courses and/or programs, maximize the opportunities to learn, and successfully complete the course or program in which they are enrolled, emerge as a better version of their professional self. They develop enhanced thinking skills and a sharpened ability to navigate a rapidly changing world, diagnose complex challenges, and create actionable plans and strategies to address these challenges in the short- and medium-terms, respectively — all with the goal of driving superior returns for their organizations and making valuable contributions to society.
Core Questions that Drive Personal Discovery and Professional Growth in our Courses and Programs
THE MANAGERIAL EFFECTIVENESS QUESTION
“In this context, what is required of me to be effective in my role?”
The question above challenges professionals to pause and deeply reflect on what drives their effectiveness in a specific context. It is a very powerful question that is especially useful when managing across borders and cultures. This question encourages an evaluation of a professional’s contextual intelligence, the breadth and depth of their knowledge, their mindset and emotions, and their capacity to act both independently and collaboratively. This reflective process is central to Education for Judgment—developing the ability to make thoughtful, informed decisions in complex, real-world situations. By asking this question, professionals move beyond reactive, intuitive thinking (System 1) to deliberate, analytical thinking (System 2), equipping themselves to weigh options, anticipate consequences, and choose paths aligned with their role’s demands. In doing so, they cultivate the judgment necessary for leadership and meaningful impact.
Are you ready to uncover what makes you truly effective and sharpen your capacity for sound judgment?
THE KNOWING-BEING-DOING QUESTIONS
- Who do I want to be in the world?
- What do I believe? (i.e. What are my values and what is my perspective on how the world works?)
- What do I want to do with my one, short, precious life?
- What do I know? And, what do I need to learn, unlearn, or relearn in order to be who I want to be and do what I want to do?)
While the managerial effectiveness question focuses on the immediate demands of a specific professional role, the knowing-being-doing questions enable learners to step back to explore the broader canvas of their lives including their perspective on the world and their role within it. By addressing the core pillars of professional effectiveness—identity, character, values, purpose, and the pursuit of knowledge and skills—these questions empower learners to build a strong, intentional foundation for their professional and personal growth and Transformation.
What will you discover about yourself and the world as you explore these questions? Are you ready to begin your journey of personal transformation?
THE COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL FITNESS QUESTIONS
- As I approach this problem, make this decision or take this action, am I perceiving Reality as objectively, accurately, and with as much precision as possible (Cognitive Fitness)?
- While staying grounded in my understanding of Reality—and remaining open to the perspectives and truths of others—how effectively am I behaving in each interaction to co-create a new and better Reality (Behavioral Fitness)?
Strategic decision-making and effective action depend on the ability to interpret Reality correctly.
When decision-makers fail to perceive situations objectively—when their mental models lack fidelity—they risk misdiagnosing problems and their root causes. Cognitive Fitness, the ongoing discipline of confronting cognitive biases, personal assumptions, and incomplete information, asks: “Am I truly seeing what is in front of me—or only what I expect, fear, or want to see?”
Cognitive Fitness calls for high-fidelity thinking in a world full of noise. It demands clarity, evidence-based reasoning, and intellectual humility. By committing to this clarity, professionals strengthen their ability to lead with intention and shape the future with precision.
But clear thinking alone is not enough.
You also need to embrace Behavioral Fitness, the practice of aligning your actions with Reality while engaging others with self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and intention. It is not just what you do. It is how you show up. How you enter the room. How you hold space. How you respond under pressure.
The Behavioral Fitness question shifts the lens from internal clarity to interpersonal impact, and asks, “Am I engaging others in a way that honors both my truth and theirs—in service of shared progress?”
Behavioral Fitness demands curiosity over ego. Presence over autopilot. Accountability over blame. Because in the moments that matter most, how you show up is an essential part of being effective in your role.
Are you committed—not just to seeing Reality clearly—but to engaging others with the clarity, integrity, and presence required to shape a better future together?
THE STRATEGIC PROBLEM FINDING-FRAMING-SOLVING QUESTIONS
- Have I fully explored the problem space and defined the problem in the best possible way?
- Have I fully explored the solution space and created an Action Plan that addresses the problem and optimizes what is (i.e. the current business model)?
- Have I fully explored the solution space and created multiple options (possibilities) to create that which does not now exist (i.e. the business model of the future)?
In general, a strategist uses the Body of Strategic Management Knowledge (i.e. academic theories, frameworks, and concepts pertaining to strategy) prior experience and judgment to find and frame (i.e. define) a problem (a.k.a. the KEY ISSUE) and DIAGNOSE the underlying root causes of the problem. Next, the strategist leverages their mastery of the Body of Strategic Management Knowledge, prior experience, and Judgment so they can correctly INFER general solutions to the problem and its underlying root causes, and then craft and prescribe a TREATMENT (i.e. a client-specific solution tailored from one of the INFERRED general solutions) that is most likely to remedy the problem in a way that is aligned with the goals of the client organization and which 1) optimizes what is, and 2) creates that which does not now exist.
What problems will you be able to solve in your professional life as a more Strategic Thinker?