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CHAPTER 01 / THE BRIEFING 01

A private briefing for teams that treat discipline as a competitive advantage.

Corporate performance training and retreat formats built on the Shuhari Method — delivered since 2017 to HR leaders, executive coaches, and team leads at companies including Notion, On Running, Shopify, and 14 Fortune 500 firms.

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  • 1,800+ professionals trained
  • 38 countries served
  • 14 Fortune 500 clients
Hiroshi Tendo standing in the Brooklyn dojo
Sensei Hiroshi Tendo — 3× All-Japan Kendo Champion (2011, 2013, 2015), co-founder of Kaiyu Tendo.
CHAPTER 02 / CASE FILE 01 02

How a 240-person Notion team installed the Shuhari Method across product, sales, and customer ops.

Engagement: 12-week cohort program, two on-site intensives at the Brooklyn dojo, weekly remote ritual coaching. Cohort composition: 240 Notion employees across product, GTM, and people ops, sponsored by the L&D partner and the COO's chief of staff.

The team arrived with a familiar pressure pattern — sprint cycles that compressed reflection, decision-making that defaulted to the loudest voice in the room, and a leadership bench that wanted a shared operating language without another offsite full of icebreakers. The brief from Notion's L&D partner was unusually precise: install a daily training ritual that survived the quarterly reset.

Over twelve weeks the cohort worked through the Shuhari Method in three movements — shu (follow the form), ha (break from the form), ri (transcend the form). Each participant kept a written ledger. Each manager committed to one specific behavioral shift and reported it back to their group every Friday.

The shift the L&D partner described, in her own words to our program lead, was qualitative rather than mechanical: meetings got shorter, decisions got attributed more cleanly, and the team's tolerance for ambiguity — a long-standing tension point during roadmap resets — increased enough that the next planning cycle finished a week ahead of schedule.

CHAPTER 03 / CASE FILES 02 & 03 03

Two contrasting deployments, one operating system.

02 ON RUNNING / SALES FLOOR RESILIENCE

A four-week resilience intensive for the North American wholesale team.

A performance apparel company with a sales culture that runs hot. We built a four-week intensive for the wholesale team focused on recovery protocols between high-stakes buyer meetings — breathwork, written debrief rituals, and a shared vocabulary for naming energy levels in real time. The team lead reported a marked drop in the cost-of-recovery between back-to-back buyer days, and a wholesale team that began to coach each other into the rituals without prompting.

  • Format: 4-week intensive, weekly 90-minute remote sessions + one in-person day
  • Team: North American wholesale, ~60 participants
  • Outcome (qualitative): self-coaching into rituals without facilitator prompting
03 SHOPIFY / FOUNDER-TEAM OFF-SITE

A three-day founder-team retreat at the Kyoto dojo.

A leadership cohort of fourteen — founders and senior leaders across Shopify's ecosystem — gathered at the Kyoto dojo for a three-day off-site. Mornings on the floor, afternoons in structured reflection, evenings reserved for the conversations that don't fit into a working week. The participating founders reported a quieter, more decisive operating cadence in the quarter that followed, and several kept their written ledger in active use six months later.

  • Format: 3-day residential retreat, Kyoto dojo
  • Cohort: 14 founders and senior leaders
  • Outcome (qualitative): quieter decision cadence, sustained use of the written ledger
CHAPTER 04 / ENGAGEMENT FORMATS 04

Four formats. Pick the one that matches your team's size and the quarter you're trying to fix.

Every engagement below is delivered by a senior Kaiyu Tendo coach and can be scoped remotely, on-site at your office, or at the Brooklyn or Kyoto dojo. Pricing is scoped after a short discovery call.

  1. 01

    Executive Reset

    A two-day intensive for C-suite and senior leadership teams (4–10 participants). Designed for the quarter where everything is on fire and the leadership table needs a single, written operating cadence again.

    Length
    2 days
    Group size
    4–10
    Location
    Dojo or on-site
  2. 02

    Team Resilience Intensive

    A four-to-eight-week cohort program for a single team (15–80 participants). Weekly remote sessions plus two on-site days. The format Notion and On Running both used.

    Length
    4–8 weeks
    Group size
    15–80
    Location
    Hybrid
  3. 03

    Founder Off-Site

    A three-day residential retreat at the Brooklyn or Kyoto dojo for founder cohorts (8–16 participants). Mornings on the floor, afternoons in structured reflection. Modeled on the Shopify engagement.

    Length
    3 days residential
    Group size
    8–16
    Location
    Brooklyn or Kyoto dojo
  4. 04

    Custom Cohort

    A bespoke engagement for organizations training 100+ employees across multiple teams or geographies. Includes dedicated program design, a named senior coach, and integration with WHOOP or Oura biometric data where appropriate.

    Length
    Scoped to program
    Group size
    100+
    Location
    Remote-first or hybrid
CHAPTER 05 / VERIFIED SCALE

The numbers a procurement lead can quote internally.

1,800+
Professionals trained in corporate engagements since 2020
14
Fortune 500 companies served, including Notion, On Running, and Shopify
320+
Active monthly coaching clients across individual and team programs
92%
Of members report a measurable outcome within 90 days — independently verified by Userfeed, Q1 2024
CHAPTER 06 / NEXT STEP

Book a 30-minute Strategy Call with a senior coach.

No deck, no sales team. You'll speak with a senior Kaiyu Tendo coach about your team's size, the quarter you're trying to fix, and which format fits. Corporate pricing is scoped after the call — typically within 48 hours.

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Duration
30 minutes
With
A senior Kaiyu Tendo coach
Follow-up
Scoped proposal within 48 hours