A top-rated keynote speaker in the CEO community and a provocative author, Don Schmincke's revolutionary work drives bottom-line impact in culture, competitive strategy, change, collaboration, C-level leadership teams, conflict management, and corporate governance (and those are just the C's!). Weaned at MIT and Johns Hopkins, Don was not fated to be a management guru. Using anthropology and evolutionary genetics to fix the high failure rates of program-of-the-month, best-selling management theories established him as a consultant renegade and leading global authority.

Don's patent-pending offerings offer refreshing alternatives to trendy theories, unproven methods, and phony experts. The industry agrees:

• CEO bestseller The Code of the Executive is now published in 10 languages
• Endorsed by leadership authorities and used in top business schools.
• Featured by CNN, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, MSNBC.com and over 60 industry publications annually.
• A Top 10 Speaker in the world's largest CEO membership organization
• His new book, High Altitude Leadership, with Emmy-nominated Chris Warner (seen in the NBC special) reveals leadership insights from Death-Zone environments.

On any given day you can find Don covering 150,000 miles annually speaking at conferences, plowing through scientific journals, facilitating corporate retreats, writing another book, inflicting his unconventional techniques on innocent MBA students, or wreaking havoc in his office (from which his staff has asked him to leave on more than one occasion). His thought-provoking work is the result of 20 years of research and expeditions which to-date have covered the former Soviet bloc, Indonesia, Africa, South America and Asia.

Don founded The SAGA Leadership Institute to fund continued research and help companies accelerate business performance. He has hosted the Executive Insights television series, developed The Leader's Code radio program, and even helped the U.S. Navy evolve its Fleet Readiness strategy (once being shot off an aircraft carrier - he's still recovering). Today, Don lives in a formerly abandoned 100-year-old Victorian mansion his wife reclaimed. His personal office now consumes most of the property; the wife and kids are not amused.

1. DISCOVERING THE LEADER'S CODE:ANCIENT SECRETS FOR EXECUTIVE PERFORMANCE
(An Unusual CEO Seminar on Unconventional, Provocative Alternatives to Modern Leadership Hype)

Based on his book, The Code of the Executive, this seminar focuses on revolutionary and controversial leadership insights from Don Schmincke's scientific research into why most leadership programs fail to develop leadership, why strategy fails to execute, and why change programs fail to change organizations. He uses anthropology and genetic evolution to dispel "program-of-the-month" pop-management theories and provide novel and energizing approaches for leading extraordinary performance in organizations.

When the organization functions effectively, the CEO has more fun, strategy executes, and the bottom-line improves. Yet most CEOs are frustrated with the level of results produced by their organization, or the politics, hidden agendas, and other dysfunctional behaviors sapping organizational vitality. What is missing in today's modern management theories? Why does current leadership training fall short? This highly participative session addresses the above issues with a special journey into ancient history to rediscover lost wisdom that has propelled organizations to success for thousands of years. Members leave with take-home value and a set of tools for the future.

2. DISCOVERING THE LEADER'S CODE - PART 2: ENHANCING TEC GROUP PERFORMANCE

This program applies the principles from Don's first topic, Discovering the Leader's Code - Part 1, directly into TEC groups. It is the result of his experience in transforming his own TEC group after having canceled several marketing events due to lack of interest, losing several members due to financial difficulties, being in an area hit hard by the recession, and having considered folding. By utilizing methods from his consulting practice for turning crisis groups into successful teams, Don was able to activate the group to take responsibility for its future; it almost doubled its size in sixty days.

Don's process is appropriate for groups in breakdown or groups that are already successful and want to move to the next level. This tailored program includes the following:

• Uncovering the true purpose for being together
• Understanding how the group views its current state
• Discovering where the group really wants to be
• Developing a framework for producing desired results in the group
• Learning tools for making it happen - discoveries from other groups around the world

Value to Members: Members will get direct experience with a high performance team process. The program will help them achieve a full TEC group and provide them with a framework for leading themselves into the future.

3. DISCOVERING THE LEADER'S CODE - PART 2: ENHANCING KEY GROUP PERFORMANCE

Same as Don's other topic, DISCOVERING THE LEADER'S CODE - PART 2: ENHANCING TEC GROUP PERFORMANCE but tailored for Key Groups. See other topic of complete description.