Master Business, Strategy & the Art of Real Learning
I help professionals, founders, and lifelong learners build rigorous business thinking and experiential skills they can actually use — on their own schedule, at their own pace.
Real learning doesn't happen when you watch a slide deck — it happens when you wrestle with a real problem, reflect honestly, and emerge with a framework that's yours to keep.
— Val (Valdas) Samonis
Learn with me
Choose where to start
The outcomes
What you get with me
- Apply proven frameworks — Porter's Five Forces, Kolb's experiential cycle, Blue Ocean, Jobs-to-be-Done — to problems you're actually facing right now.
- Read, build, and stress-test financial statements and investment cases with the confidence of someone who understands the numbers behind the story.
- Design experiential learning programs for your own team, students, or audience — complete with activities, debrief guides, and outcome assessments.
- Develop competitive strategy and governance thinking grounded in both management science and real-world market dynamics.
- Launch your online school or product on your own timeline, with a pre-launch checklist and go/no-go criteria entirely under your control.
- Turn raw experience — yours and your learners' — into transferable, lasting insight through structured reflection and peer dialogue.
The path
How learning with me works
Pick where to start
Join one of my schools — each is a full curriculum you can start today.
The AI adapts to you
Every lesson adjusts to your level, and a tutor answers your questions as you go. This is amazing and relies heavily on the tutor-learner model that has been long abandoned as too costly!
Learn by doing
Checkpoints, practice, and real are studies and projects — you build skill, not just watch videos.
Who it's for
Made for people like you
The Mid-Career Business Professional
You have real-world experience but want rigorous frameworks to sharpen your strategy, finance, and leadership thinking for the next level.
The Aspiring Learning Designer
You train teams or teach courses and want to replace passive lectures with structured experiential cycles that actually change behavior.
The First-Time Online Founder
You're ready to launch your school or digital product and need a clear, pressure-free process so nothing goes live before you're truly ready.
Good to know
Questions, answered
Ready to learn by doing? Let's begin.
Academy of Experiential Learning(TM)
Learn by doing, not just watching. The Academy of Experiential Learning(TM) turns real-world challenges into structured experiences that build lasting skills, deep understanding, and genuine confidence.