SAMSKARA · THE FRAMEWORK
Performance coaching for founder-led companies.
Private work on the gap between what you know your company needs and what you actually do when the moment arrives.
The Samskara System.
A proven three-phase framework that clears the patterns running beneath your decisions, so what you know shows up in what you do. Built over twenty years, tested on myself first, and used with roughly 30 founders.
CONTENTS
What’s inside.
01 Why It Exists
02 The Offer
03 What Makes It Different
04 The Problem It Solves
05 Proof It Works
06 The Three Phases
07 Guiding Principles
08 How We Begin
09 The Case Studies
10 Who This Is Not For
11 Where This Work Comes From
12 Ways to Work Together
01
Why It Exists
Founders are rarely short on strategy. They have advisors, consultants, peer groups and a shelf of books, and most of them already know the next move. What stalls the company is the moment the move has to be made: the price, the hire, the hard conversation.
Almost everything you were taught works on the conscious mind: more information, a better plan, more effort. But the patterns that decide what you do under pressure run below conscious awareness, and time, willpower and energy are all finite. We all know mind over matter is real. Nobody teaches you what it is or how to use it. Not in school, not in college, not in business school.
I saw this at far higher stakes in Iraq. Same pressure, two opposite reactions: some people got sharper, others came apart. Most of what is sold to founders works on the plan. Almost nothing works on that difference, so I built the Samskara System to work on it directly.
02
The Offer
03
What Makes It Different
04
The Problem It Solves
05
Proof It Works
06
The Three Phases
Six months, three phases. First we release what is running the show. Then you relearn who you are as the leader this stage needs. Then we reprogram how you perform, so it holds without me.
07
Guiding Principles
08
How We Begin
09
The Case Studies
10
Who This Is Not For
11
Where This Work Comes From
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