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Why have so many great brands relied on
The Samurai Game® to cultivate collaborative leadership?
Step into a leadership experience crafted for today’s business world – where resilience, clarity, and principled action set your team apart.
Beyond Conventional Training: Seven Conditions for Forging Tomorrow's Leaders and Teams
The Samurai Game – a collaborative leadership journey unlike any other.
Imagine this: You and your team step into the world of the Samurai, facing unpredictable “battles” and impossible choices together, bound by your shared values: your Bushido. The real test? It’s found in the moments you confront your own strengths, assumptions, limits, and choices – under the pressures of “real” business life.
Since 1997
individuals and teams have been playing The Samurai Game
Over 100,000
people worldwide have participated in The Samurai Game
25+
countries where The Samurai Game has been played
100s
of organizations have used The Samurai Game to enhance performance
“The Samurai Game was nothing short of extraordinary. What my team discovered about leadership and themselves will shape us for years to come.”
— Morgan Tate,
Director of Operations, Expanse Corp.
Beyond Conventional Training: Seven Conditions for Forging Tomorrow's Leaders and Teams
What makes The Samurai Game a different experience for your leaders and teams?
Leadership for Uncertain Times
Today’s organizations need leaders with authenticity and open minds, prepared for whatever comes next.
Team Cohesion,
Accelerated
It’s about trust that results in real breakthroughs – built in hours, not months.
Values in Action
Integrity, courage, respect, and service aren’t just words – they’re lived.
Insights That Stick
This isn’t traditional training. It’s an immersive, career-changing rite of passage.
Beyond Conventional Training: Seven Conditions for Forging Tomorrow’s Leaders and Teams
How can
The Samurai Game
serve you?
In a world of constant disruption and information overload,
organizations need leaders and teams who can think clearly; learn and create together; and act decisively under pressure.
The Samurai Game is built for these challenges – empowering your people to lead and collaborate when it matters most.
Decisive action
in the face of disruption, shifting norms, and uncertainty.
Trust
and adaptability fueled by change.
A culture
with a common vision, shared values, and deep integrity.
“Leadership today can't come solely from formal authority
In an era of information overwhelm, remote teams, and ever-accelerating change, effective collaboration isn’t a luxury. It’s the way forward. Leaders and teams won’t find that in conventional programs. They find it in action – in fully immersive experiences that engage them as whole human beings – mind, body, and spirit. This is the path to authentic, collaborative, potent leadership.”
CEO and Founder, Full Contact Institute and
author of Full Contact Performance
Recognize any of these clear signals it’s time for a breakthrough?
The Samurai Game can’t solve every problem. But it can show you what’s holding your team back and catalyze the conditions for real transformation – rapidly building connection and surfacing the patterns that impede progress.
What can one intensive experience change?
Beyond Conventional Training: Seven Conditions for Forging Tomorrow's Leaders and Teams
The timeless virtues of Bushido aren’t museum relics or platitudes on motivational posters – they’re the foundation for organizations that endure and thrive in adversity. These virtues include:
義
礼
勇
名誉
誠
仁
忠義
In The Samurai Game, these values aren’t just ideals – they’re practiced in real time.
Not just a training – a modern rite of passage.
George Leonard – World War II combat pilot, renowned journalist, bestselling author, outstanding educator, and 5th degree black belt in Aikido – created The Samurai Game in 1977 to unlock collaboration, personal development,and leadership. He recognized that real growth happens by practicing under pressure rather than simply talking about it.
A former president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, trusted advisor to Fortune 100 leaders, and the man considered to be the “grandfather of the human potential movement,” Leonard’s exceptional legacy blends martial discipline, creative artistry, and a unique vision of what’s possible for people and organizations. The Samurai Game remains one of his most impactful contributions to leadership and lifelong learning.
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