Alpha Brain Assessment & Brain Rewiring Program for Students and Job Seekers

Your job search, your interviews, your life choices — all of it can change. We will rapidly upgrade how your brain operates so you can land the offers you want and build a career that wins. The brain shaped by your environment and experiences can be rewired starting right now. Only 15 spots available per month!

"Everyone around me is getting offers. Why am I the only one left behind?"

What is actually happening inside your brain.
Why did your classmate get into Goldman when you did not?
We will dissect your brain and show you exactly what needs to change.

The Alpha Brain Lab's "Alpha Brain Assessment & Brain Rewiring" program will rapidly upgrade how your brain operates, strengthening your interview performance, your ability to land offers, and your entire career trajectory.

Reach out today.

I'm Emi Sakashita. I researched neuroscience at the University of Tokyo (Ikegaya Lab, hippocampus research) and clinical psychology at Columbia University, where I put both into practice.

Today, as COO of Alpha College, I work with over 8,000 people every year on their careers and mental performance.

University of Tokyo Neuroscience × Columbia University Clinical Psychology. Alpha College COO Emi Sakashita will personally assess and analyze your brain, identify what needs to change, and guide you to the offers you are aiming for.

First, Tell Us Which of These Sounds Like You.

・You want to work at Goldman Sachs, but something inside you keeps asking whether someone like you could actually get in.
・You want McKinsey, BCG, or Bain, but case interviews feel impossible.
・You want Mitsubishi Corporation or Mitsui and Co. and you want to stand out from everyone else going for the same thing.
・You did not get through a summer internship round and you feel like it might already be over.
・Your mind goes blank in interviews, even after you have prepared thoroughly.
・You cannot write your application essays. You do not know what your strengths are. Everything you write feels like a lie.
・You do not know what to ask in informational interviews. The conversation dies and you cannot revive it.
・You feel like you have not done anything impressive enough to talk about. Your club activities and part-time jobs seem too ordinary.
・People around you are getting offers one after another, and you feel like you are the only one getting left behind.
・An interviewer said "couldn't you do this at any company?" and you had nothing to say.
・You cannot speak up in group discussions. You have no idea what the right answer is.
・You did not get through to your first-choice firm. You do not know how to recover from here.
・You want to work at a global firm but do not feel confident in your English.
・You are thinking about an MBA abroad, but you feel like you are not ready for that yet.
・You want to work internationally but have no idea how to actually make that happen.
・You cannot tell whether your parents' and seniors' advice is right or whether to trust your own instincts.
・You cannot find what you actually want to do. Self-analysis just goes in circles.
・You got an offer but you cannot decide whether to accept it and the anxiety will not go away.
・Job searching feels terrifying. You have not been able to start. You do not know where to begin.
・When you see peers who are succeeding, the gap between you and them pulls you down.

If even one of these sounds like you, keep reading.
This is not a lack of effort. It is not a lack of willpower. You have simply been fighting in a way that does not match how your brain is wired.

The Difference Between Who Gets Into Goldman and Who Does Not Is Not Academic Background

Who gets into Goldman Sachs and who does not. Who passes McKinsey interviews and who does not. Who lands Mitsubishi Corporation and who does not.

The gap is not your university, your English level, or how impressive your extracurriculars sound. It is how you use your brain.

Your behavior is determined by the following structure.

Environment and Experience → Values → Brain Response Patterns → Behavior

Your past environment and experiences shaped your values. Those values determined how your brain is wired. And that wiring automatically controls your behavior. Your mind going blank in interviews, not being able to write application essays, freezing up in informational interviews — all of it comes from here.

When you feel like you cannot do something, it is not because you lack the ability. It is because your brain is designed to respond that way.

If you do nothing, your brain stays the same. The same thing will happen in your next interview.

But here is what matters most.

Your brain can change. Starting right now, it can change.

New experiences of success update your values, rewire your brain, and transform your behavior. This is not motivational talk. It is a scientific fact called neuroplasticity. Whether your job search has already started or is still ahead of you, changing your brain's response patterns is completely possible.

The Same Struggle Can Look Completely Different Inside the Brain

"My mind goes blank in interviews." The symptom is the same, but the cause is different for every person.

Person A: Amygdala Overactivation
Since childhood, a circuit has formed that reads "being evaluated" as "being in danger." No matter how many practice interviews you do, as long as this circuit fires, the same thing will happen when it counts.

Person B: External Attribution of Success
This person has plenty of achievements and experiences to talk about. But the brain keeps processing them as "just luck" or "thanks to the people around me." So when it comes time to talk about themselves, the words feel hollow and they freeze. The same thing happens with written applications. Whatever they write feels like exaggeration, and the pen stops moving.

Person C: Fear as the Primary Drive
The motivation behind target firms is essentially "I do not want to fail" or "everyone else is applying there." The engine running this person is fear. Interviewers pick up on it immediately. That is why they cannot answer "why us specifically?"

Person D: Answer-Seeking Mode
Years of exam preparation built a brain perfectly optimized for finding the correct answer without making mistakes. In interviews, this person keeps searching for "the right answer." But interviews do not have right answers. So they freeze.

If the real cause is A, applying the fix for D will never work. It is like taking medication without knowing the diagnosis.

The typical job search preparation program completely ignores each person's unique brain profile, whether it is A, B, C, or D. Everyone gets the same practice interviews, the same essay corrections, the same self-analysis exercises. There is some value in that. But how many people have actually gotten into Goldman or McKinsey through that approach?

On the other hand, have you started to tell yourself that firms like Goldman are simply out of reach for you?

Let me say it again.

Your brain can change. Starting right now, it can change.

If self-analysis, prep programs, and interview coaching left you exactly where you started, that is entirely expected. No one was actually looking at what was happening inside your brain.

How the Alpha Brain Assessment & Brain Rewiring Program Works

Step 1: Complete Brain Pattern Assessment

We objectively map your brain's response patterns using the language of neuroscience.

・Social brain profile (other-focused processing vs. self-monitoring): what is actually happening in your interviews and informational conversations
・Decision-making engine (belief-driven vs. fear-driven): what is actually powering your motivation toward your target firms
・Reward system sensitivity and distortions: where the circuit that keeps you moving is getting blocked
・The balance between your foundational and surface-level self-worth: the real reason you cannot write about yourself in applications
・What is draining your working memory: the mechanism behind your mind going blank in interviews
・How your amygdala, prefrontal cortex, and striatum tend to operate: the map of what your brain is naturally good at and where it struggles

For the first time, you will be able to see the brain patterns that are completely invisible from the inside.

Step 2: Identifying the Bottleneck

We do not stop at "you need more preparation" or "you need more repetitions." We locate which neural circuits are blocked and exactly how, down to the circuit level.

Here is where you will finally understand the real reason you have been getting rejected.

Step 3: Designing Your Personal Path to the Offer

Telling an analytical brain to "just go meet more people" leads to burnout. Telling an intuitive brain to "cover every inch of industry research" leads to paralysis.

We design a path to your target offers that works with the way your brain naturally operates.

How you approach your applications, how you handle interviews, how you conduct informational conversations — all of it is customized to match your specific brain type.

Step 4: 90-Day Training Plan and AI Support Around the Clock

Your brain can be rewired. But it requires the right kind of challenge, applied in the right sequence.

・Direct coaching from Emi Sakashita: Every client is handled personally. She tracks the changes in your brain throughout the entire process.
・AI coaching available 24 hours a day: A dedicated AI system designed by Emi records and analyzes your daily actions and thinking patterns, accelerating the rewiring process.
・Mission-based training: "Try just this one thing in your next informational conversation." Then reflect. Then the next mission.

New action leads to new success, which updates your values, rewires your brain, and automates new behavior. Once this cycle starts moving, it builds on itself.

Step 5: Installing TJ's Winning Mindset

This is the most powerful element of the Alpha Brain Lab.

Brain analysis alone is just a personality test. What we provide goes further. How the people at Goldman and top MBA programs actually think, respond, and carry themselves in interviews.

Alpha's founder TJ (Sumitomo Corporation, University of Chicago Booth MBA, Goldman Sachs IBD) has spent 18 years working with over 80,000 people to systematize this practical intelligence. We will install it directly into how you think and operate.

We do not teach interview techniques. We rewire the response patterns themselves. That is why what you gain is not just useful for job searching — it is a brain you will use for the rest of your career.

Neuroscience-based analysis from Emi, combined with elite career intelligence from TJ. There is no other program in the world that brings both together.

Why Only Alpha Can Deliver This

Some prep programs will tell you to "just get more repetitions" and leave it at that. Some coaching services hand you an essay template and call it a day. Neither of them is actually looking at your brain.

Founder TJ (Toshihiko Irisumi)
Sumitomo Corporation, University of Chicago Booth MBA, Goldman Sachs IBD. He walked that path himself, and over 18 years has worked directly with more than 80,000 people to move their careers forward.

COO Emi Sakashita
Hippocampus research at the University of Tokyo's Ikegaya Lab, clinical psychology at Columbia University's Graduate School. A genuine neuroscientist who can identify exactly what is happening inside your brain.

Elite career intelligence combined with neuroscience-backed mental design. Only when both are in place does a job search truly begin to move.

The Changes You Can Expect

・Your mind will stop going blank in interviews.
・You will be able to write about your strengths in applications with genuine confidence.
・You will be able to answer "why us specifically?" from a place of real conviction.
・The people you meet in informational conversations will sense that you are different.
・You will naturally step into a leadership role in group discussions.
・You will recover from the blow of not getting through a summer internship round.
・What you actually want to do will come into sharp focus.
・Your motivation will shift from running away from failure to running toward something.
・You will be able to talk about yourself with composure in interviews at your first-choice firms.
・When you have multiple offers, you will be able to choose without second-guessing yourself.
・Your brain will be ready to compete for offers at top global firms, consulting firms, and trading companies.
・What you gain is not just useful for job searching. It is a brain you will use for the rest of your life.

A Track Record of Results

Every year, over 250 people land the offers they are aiming for with Alpha's support.

【Investment Banking and Finance】 Goldman Sachs / Morgan Stanley / JPMorgan / Bank of America / BlackRock / Point72 / Bridgewater

【Consulting】 McKinsey / BCG / Bain / A.T. Kearney / EY-Parthenon / Big Four firms

【Trading Companies】 Mitsubishi Corporation / Mitsui and Co. / Sumitomo Corporation / Itochu Corporation

【Real Estate】 Mitsubishi Estate / Mitsui Fudosan

【Technology】 GAFAM (CFO divisions, marketing, engineering, data science)

【International】 Goldman Sachs / JPMorgan / BlackRock / Blackstone / Citi / Fidelity / Bridgewater / US PE funds / Singapore activist funds / GAFAM / Big Four firms / US consulting firms

The only difference between the people who landed offers at these firms and where you are right now is how they use their brain.

Your brain can change. Starting right now, it can change.

Pricing

Monthly fee: 48,000 yen (before tax), campaign price

The standard rate is 96,000 yen per month. During the campaign period, we are offering the program at half that price.

What is included

・Pre-assessment questionnaire (neuroscience-based)
・In-depth intake session via individual chat
・Complete Brain Pattern Assessment Report
・Your personalized path to success, designed specifically for you
・90-day training plan
・Direct personal guidance from Emi Sakashita on every case
・AI coaching support available 24 hours a day
・Ongoing follow-up chat

If you are serious about landing an offer at Goldman, McKinsey, or a top trading company, you already understand what an exceptional value this represents.

Because Emi personally handles every client herself, this program is limited to 15 people per month.

A Final Word

"Monitoring your own brain using only your own brain" has a fundamental limitation by design.

You cannot see your own patterns from the inside. Your brain's reactions happen before you become conscious of them. By the time something surfaces in your awareness, the brain has already made its decision, and the prefrontal cortex is quietly constructing a plausible explanation after the fact.

"I am probably not the right fit for Goldman."
"I am not ready yet."
"Maybe next year would be better."

Whether these are genuine judgments or the brain's precisely constructed excuses for not wanting to move — you cannot tell the difference from the inside.

That is why an outside perspective is essential. And not just any perspective. It needs to be someone who has seen the most demanding moments a career can throw at you, combined with a scientist who can actually see inside the brain.

Let me say it one final time.

Your brain can change. Starting right now, it can change.

But if you do nothing, nothing will change. The brain is an organ that prioritizes efficiency above everything else. Left alone, it will keep producing the same reactions and the same results. The same thing will happen in next year's job search.

The moment you feel ready to change is the moment you are most capable of changing.

Within 5 minutes, we will identify exactly what has been holding you back. Within 30 days, the way you use your brain will begin to shift. And your job search will start moving in ways you would not recognize.

▶ Register Here: Alpha Brain Assessment & Brain Rewiring Program

Submit your application through the registration form or free consultation chat and write "Brain Assessment Request."

When you understand how your brain works and learn to work with it, job searching becomes remarkably easier. We look forward to speaking with each and every one of you.

Program Supervision

Emi Sakashita

Joshi Gakuin, University of Tokyo Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Ikegaya Lab, research on brain function, memory, and depression including hippocampus). After graduating, worked in pharmaceutical drug development focusing on central nervous system treatments including antidepressants. Columbia University Teachers College (clinical psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy, developmental psychology, research on depression and social withdrawal). COO of Alpha Genius. Also serves as Director of Mental Lab, an online support program grounded in neuroscience and clinical psychology.

From early childhood, she advanced four or more grade levels ahead through the Kumon method, mastering mathematics up to fourth-grade level before starting elementary school. She gained admission to Joshi Gakuin through highly efficient study methods that required minimal total hours, including watching television the night before the entrance exam. During her university years, she coached over 30 students as a tutor and private instructor, guiding them into Japan's most selective middle schools. Drawing on her University of Tokyo research into the mechanisms of brain function and memory, her work in pharmaceutical development on antidepressants, and her graduate studies at Columbia in clinical psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy, and developmental psychology, she delivers fully personalized programs designed around each individual's learning style. She is widely regarded as the foremost advisor in Japan for study methods, academic admissions, and career development, and has earned exceptional feedback from Alpha participants for her approach to achieving outstanding results in the shortest possible time.

TJ (Toshihiko Irisumi)

Sumitomo Corporation (Accounting Division: budget, financial reporting, and performance management across headquarters and over 800 affiliated companies; IR responsibilities. Selected as the youngest trainee sent to Sumitomo Corporation America in New York; involved in the turnaround of a US electric steel business. Project Finance Division: structured large-scale financing for infrastructure projects in developing markets and structured financing for Jupiter Telecommunications. Selected for overseas MBA sponsorship). University of Chicago Booth School of Business MBA (concentrations in finance, entrepreneurship, and organizational management). Founded the University of Chicago Japanese Students Association. Conceived and executed the first ever Japan Trip for Chicago Booth, which became an annual tradition. Goldman Sachs, Investment Banking Division (M&A advisory, capital raising including IPO transactions, and business restructuring across media and consumer sectors; private equity investment work). Selected among six participants from over 200 applicants for the Japan Association of Corporate Executives Entrepreneurship Program. Has produced a consistent record of admissions to Harvard, Stanford, and other leading MBA, graduate, and undergraduate programs across the US, Europe, and Asia, as well as boarding schools. Coaching track record spanning Mitsubishi Corporation, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Google, Big Four consulting and FAS firms, Dentsu, Toyota, MUFG, Nomura Securities, and many others. Renowned for thorough and uncompromising individual coaching on TOEFL, GMAT, IELTS, and GRE preparation. Earns exceptional regard for designing the goal and then driving relentlessly toward achieving it at the highest standard of quality. Demand for TJ as an advisor continues to far exceed available capacity.