Junko Edahiro obtained a Master's degree in Educational Psychology from The University of Tokyo. Still active today as an environmental journalist, she is committed to communication and networking through lecturing, publishing, consulting and translating on the environment, all with the aim of causing behavioral change among people and building effective systems for a sustainable society. To comprehensively study the relationship among happiness, economy, and society and work on these themes, she holds workshops on happiness and sustainability.
She organizes a website “e's Future Co-Creation Forum” to co-create new value from finding relationships among factors within a problem. In 2011, she founded the Institute for Studies in Happiness, Economy and Society (ISHES) to rethink on the relationship among happiness, economy, and society and explore better systems and indicators. She contributes to co-creation of happy and resilient future through human connections and dialogue.
She creates opportunities and places to build consensus among stakeholders utilizing the Systems Thinking or Scenario Planning model. She acts as a facilitator for companies and local governments. And as an advisor, she is also involved in regional revitalization to depict a more desirable future with projects to rebuild the local economy.
The books she has translated include An Inconvenient Truth, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis and An Inconvenient Sequel by Al Gore;
Limits to Growth: The 30-year Update;
Beyond 'Eco' - How to Make a Happy Future;
From Pursuit of GDP Growth to Creation of Happiness based on Life Beyond Growth;
Thinking in Systems;
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organizationand;
World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse.

Kentaro Mori is a Senior Advisor at the Boston Consulting Group, after having served as a Managing Director and Senior Partner. Kentaro is a former head of Consumer and Retail Practice in Japan and also lead People Team (HR) for many years.
Kentaro joined ISL (Institute for Strategic Leadership) as a faculty member in 2015 and is now a Program Director. He joined Shizenkan as a Professor in 2022.
Kentaro holds a B.A. in Physics from University of Cambridge.

Professor Everett Kennedy Brown is a cross-cultural ambassador, born and raised in the USA, and has spent most of his adult life in Japan.
During his extensive career, Everett has authored many books about Japanese culture, been a journalist, university professor, and artist.
Everett also served as a counselor for the Prime Minister's office and in various government ministries. As an artist, he is internationally known for his innovative approach to early photographic processes, and his images are in the permanent collections of major international museums. Everett also established the Japan office of EPA (European Pressphoto Agency) , the sustainable living farm Browsnfield and is the Founder of the Kyoto Kaisho Foundation. In 2013 he was awarded the Japanese Government Cultural Affairs Agency Commissioners Award for promoting Japanese culture

Engages in strategy and M&A consulting projects. In strategy, he covers portfolio, business unit, and new business strategies. In M&A, he engages across the process from M&A strategy and blueprint, target screening, due diligence, and post-merger integration. He serves clients across electronics and manufacturing, consumer, and investor industries. He has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and M.S. in chemistry from Kyoto University

1948　Born in Kanagawa.
1972 Graduated from Dept of Sociology, Faculty of Letters,
The University of Tokyo.
1977 Completed Doctoral Candidate Course, Graduate School of Sociology,
　The University of Tokyo.
1989　Associate Professor (Sociology), Faculty of Engineering,
Tokyo Institute of Technology.
1995 Professor(Sociology), Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. 1996 Professor(Sociology), Dept. of Value and Decision Science, Graduate School
of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
2013 Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Graduated from the Schools of Letters, Arts and Sciences I at Waseda University in 2002.
In the same year, I joined Kodansha Ltd. and was engaged in editing a weekly magazine.
In 2007, I joined Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. and was engaged in the development and operation of office buildings.
Since 2012, I has been in charge of the new business/open innovation area. In 2018, I started "BASE Q", where to support development of new business/open innovation and to grow intrepreneur of major companies in Japan.

Yuji Machida joined McKinsey & Company in 1991, after graduating from the Faculty of Law at Kyoto University. He served as a Leader of IT, High-tech and Internet Related Practices in company offices in Osaka, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai. He worked on various projects related to organizational change, acquisitions, and urban development. At the same time, he was in charge of recruitment and training. Yuji Machida is a Roger Klein Award winner. After becoming an Associate Partner, he went independent, working with Rimnet, Unison Capital and others.
In September 2013, he started his own company as a representative of BODAI, Inc. Ltd. developing the “art thinking” services related to corporate revitalization and organizational change consulting, as well as new business/IoT/AI business consulting.
In 2017-18, he served as Tokyo Metropolitan Advisor and Special Counselor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Reform Headquarters.
He also serves as “Arts Economics” Advisor at Innovation Management Science Research Division, Industry-Government-Academia Collaboration Headquarters, Kyoto University.
He is active as an artist based in Tokyo. In 1999, he held a solo exhibition in New York. He has lived in Osaka, Tokyo, New York, Shanghai and Seoul.

Mitani entered the Kawasaki Steel Corporation (now the JFE Steel Corporation) after graduating from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tokyo.
He also has earned master’s degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University.
He then joined the Boston Consulting Group. After taking posts as the Regional President for North Asia at GE Aviation Systems, the President of GE Healthcare Japan and CEO of Novartis Pharma K.K., he established Office Mitani. He took the position as Chairman of Plantec Consulting Inc. in 2016.
He joined the faculty at Shizenkan University in 2019. Mitani is also a part-time lecturer at GSDM and the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. Assumed Senior advisor of Boston Consulting Group(BCG) in 2019.

Norishige (Noly) Morimoto graduated Keio University and joined IBM Yamato Laboratory in 1987 as a hardware engineer. In 1995, he received a Master of Science in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and worked at MIT Media Lab as a researcher. He worked as a researcher at IBM Research-Tokyo, managing consultant at IBM Business Consulting Services, before going on assignment to IBM Watson Research Center in NY during 2006-2009. In 2009, he was appointed to Director of IBM Research-Tokyo and in 2015, he was promoted to VP & Chief Technology Officer in IBM Asia Pacific. In 2020 he was appointed to Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, IBM Research & Development – Japan, and in 2023 he became an Vice President of IBM Japan. Noly has more than 20 patents in digital watermarking and copyright protection and several publications in the area of innovation management. He has been delivered many keynote speeches on advanced technology areas such as artificial intelligence, semiconductor and quantum computer.

Catalyst, Learning Activist and Future Vision Navigator

Under the organization “21 Foundation", Patrick and team collaborate to connect the present with the future for a wide range of people, from infants to senior executives of companies, to reach their highest level of collective intelligence.

In 1995, he co-founded Tokyo International School, a 21st Century model school in many areas of education and learning.

In 2008, Patrick co-founded TEDxTokyo, the first TEDx, TEDxYouth & TEDxTeachers events outside of the USA. TEDx focuses on bringing thinkers, doers and innovators from Japan and beyond to share ideas worth spreading.

In 2012, he created “21:21”, a documentary film aligning 21st century learning with 21st century learners with a focus on the role of parents as primary educators.

In 2014, Patrick wrote “TED Power" to inspire people to find their ideas worth spreading and take them further than imagined.

In 2015, Patrick wrote “21st Century Skills to Nurture a Children’s Future”

In 2017, Patrick and team hosted the SingularityU Japan Summit which is the first Summit event held in Japan.

In 2018, 21 Foundation created a membership program together with Singularity University with 10 large Japanese companies all in different industries. The focus of this program is to align companies with the fast-paced exponential technological change through meaningful projects to transform their future.

In 2019, he published the book “Strategies for keeping Japan #1”. Patrick interviewed over 150 people to research how they see Japan in 2030. Japan is #1 in many areas beyond economics and the latest technology and can be a role model for the rest of the world in some areas.

Dr. Tomo Noda is the founder of ISL (Institute for Strategic Leadership), a Tokyo- based educational institution dedicated to the development of next-generation leaders with the willpower, character and creativity necessary to catalyze social and business innovation in Japan.
He is an expert in organizational strategy and transformational leadership, and was a faculty member of the London Business School (1996-1997), INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France (1997-2000), INSEAD ASIA in Singapore (2001-2003), and SIMI (Scandinavian International Management Institute) (1996-2005) where he taught strategic and international management to MBAs and excecutives.
He is also an active member of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives) and has led a project team for promoting NPOs/NGOs and social entrepreneurship in 2011 as well as a nation-wide task team for restoring Tohoku region attacked by 3.11 earthquake and tsunami disaster between 2012 and 2017. He is the organizer for Social Innovator's Koshien Program, a network for promoting social alliances betwen business, civic and public sectors.
He is originally from Kyoto, Japan.
Dr. Noda holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University of Tokyo, a Master’s Degree in Science in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Doctorate in Business Administration (Business Policy) from Harvard University.

Graduated from Tohoku University with a doctoral degree. Later worked as a lecturer and assistant professor at the School of Business Administration of Senshu University, assistant professor and professor at the Faculty of Economics of Tohoku University and as professor at the Graduate School of Economics and Management of Tohoku University.
Has been responsible for teaching “Management Policy” and “Market Strategy” and other courses at Tohoku University for more than 30 years. Supervised around 300 students in seminars and graduating students. Has further been engaged in supporting local government economic policies and administrative reforms, has been an active member of non-profit organizations and has held the office of the Representative Director of the Sendai-Miyagi NPO Center and President of the Sanaburi Foundation.
Former Member of the Management Committee and the Personal Information Protection Commission of Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK).

Peter David worked as director of a Tokyo based company organizing management seminars and international symposia for owners of small and medium sized enterprises from 1995-98, inviting international speakers such as Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, Alvin Toffler, John Naisbitt, Lester Thurow, Peter Drucker and Lester Brown to Japan.
After that, he became as the first foreign anchor of a major news program in Japan at Tokyo MX TV for 18 months before becoming the Co-founder and CEO of E-Square Inc., one of Japan’s first sustainability/CSR consultancies from 2000-2011.
In 2015, he co-founded and continues to run NELIS – Next Leaders’ Initiative for Sustainability, which aims to connect, inspire and empower young practitioners in the field of sustainability and social innovation worldwide. He began teaching as a Shizenkan University professor in 2019.

Graduating Kyoto University, BA in Law 1983, started career at Mitsui Co., Ltd, involved in trading of edible alcohol, molasses, dextrose etc. Visited 34 countries on business including training in the U.S. Fully exposed to “real frontline” of business, experiencing tough business like export dextrose to Iran.
Interested in corporate management, gained MBA at Harvard Business School in 1996.
Returning to Mitsui, involved in strategic investment of Foods Group of Mitsui, involved in M&A and subsidiaries control.
In 2000, joined GE Capital, involved in M&A and in 2006 became Board Member & Deputy President at GE Fleet Services as head of sales & marketing.
2007-Nov. 2019, Xerox Corporation as Executive Director in Japan, in parallel, acting as Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Fuji Xerox, involved in overall management of the company.
Leveraging on experience in both Japanese and global companies, gaining capabilities of global strategy and management and leadership, strongly interested in growing next generation of whole-person leaders, involved in founding Shizenkan University in 2017~18.

Born in Osaka in 1947. Second-generation Korean in Japan. Philosopher. Graduated from the School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University. After serving as a professor at the School of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University and the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, he is currently a professor emeritus at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Waseda University. Started his career as a writer in Japan. Has been active in literary criticism, thought criticism, and philosophical writing. Currently writing a book on desire as a fundamental theory of existential philosophy (Volume 1 and Volume 2 have been published).　

Started his business career in Fuji Xerox as a research engineer in R&D department, recognized issues regarding “technology and management” and moved to A.T. Kearney. After three years, established an incubator and supported five technology ventures for developing business plans and funding from VCs. Returned to A.T. Kearney and engaged more than 500 projects as a principal for about 16 years regarding various management issues mainly for high-tech and automotive industries.
Since 2018, became a part-time consultant for A.T. Kearney, and an advisor for Nippon Human Resources, Co., Ltd., funded by the Japanese government, which accelerates local economies in Japan.
Personally, established NPO KIDS for handicapped children in 1992, providing various opportunities for them to attend social activities, and continues to lead the organization as a managing director.

Yuichi Yatsuhashi graduated from Tokyo University Faculty of Economy. Right after graduation he entered Boston Consulting Group and became the youngest partner in the Tokyo office at the age of 34. Later, he turned to the private equity industry. He became a Partner in MKS Partners in 2007.
In 2011 he became Senior Advisor of ACA . He invested a lot of his time in supporting venture companies such as venture investments as well as listed stock investments.
Since 2015, he has been working as a specially-appointed professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology Global Leader School.

Katsuhiko is an Associate Professor and Vice President at Shizenkan University.
Katsuhiko’s research focuses on organizational behavior and human resource management in contemporary organizations that face globalization and digitalization, and he has published research articles in prominent academic journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Studies, and Journal of World Business. He also serves as an ad-hoc reviewer at journals such as Asia Pacific Journal of Management and International Journal of Human Resource Management. Katsuhiko received Ph.D. in Management and MSc. Management, Organizations, and Governance (Distinction) from London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, and BA in Economics from Kyoto University, Japan.
Along with research and teaching, he consults with multinational corporations and serves as an external advisor to two startup companies. Before joining Shizenkan, he served as an Assistant Professor at Antai College of Economics and Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and worked as Consulting Director and Chief Researcher at Recruit in Japan.

Shun Nagao is Venture Partner at White Star Capital (WSC) and CEO of Eureka Japon Inc. Previously he was Executive Director of the Silicon Valley Japan Platform, and has held positions at the World Economic Forum, a Paris-based startup, at Goldman Sachs and at Morgan Stanley.
Shun has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Keio University and a MBA from INSEAD. Born and raised in Geneva, Switzerland and educated in Japan and France, Shun has a multicultural background and is fluent in Japanese, English and French.

Tish Robinson helps managers resolve interpersonal conflicts on their teams.

Her teaching focuses on conflict intervention and leading diverse teams as well. She has a book forthcoming with Nikkei Shinbun Press on leading diverse teams and is creating a MOOC on conflict transformation for leaders. Her interest in conflict resolution stems from two decades’ worth of corporate training and consulting in companies such as Berlitz, Denso, Dentsu, Goldman Sachs, JTB (Japan Travel Bureau), Mitsui Trading, Mizuho Financial Group, Nikkei Shimbun, SMBC Mitsui Sumitomo Bank, Yamaha Music, and Yamaha Motors, among others. Tish is a certified mediator with over 300 hours of mediator training and an MA in Conflict Facilitation.

Tish received her MBA and Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her BA from Pomona College. Tish has taught at Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, NYU Stern School, Keio EMBA Program and Yale’s Global Network of Advanced Management. Tish’s research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Perspectives, and Human Resource Management Review, among others, and her academic awards include the Academy of Management Richman Prize, the Academy of International Business Farmer Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Fulbright Hayes Fellowship, a Fulbright Faculty Fellowship, a Carnegie Bosch Fellowship, a Japan Foundation Faculty Fellowship, and a Shintaro Abe Fellowship, among others.

Tish has served as a Commissioner on the Fulbright Japan-US Educational Commission appointed by Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, as an outside board director to Eisai Pharmaceuticals, as an elected Governor on the American Chamber of Commerce Board of Governors, as a researcher at the Japan Institute of Labor Policy and Training, and as a co-founder in Japan with Rich Oda of the Society of Organizational Learning Japan under the auspices of Peter Senge.

- A.T. Kearney: Core automotive and adjacent industries member with management consulting focus on strategy, digital, marketing and M&A
- Toyota Motor Corporation: Product planning/strategy (regional core models) and process innovation lead
- Toyota Motor Europe: New business development (low cost car and commercial vehicles strategy)
- Vlerick Leuven Gent Management school: Masters in Marketing

Paul has more than 20 years of experience as a consultant across Asia and is equally at home working with blue-chip Japanese and Asian companies and Western multinationals. He has closely worked with clients in a variety of industries including energy, industrial goods, and chemicals. His recent experience includes development and implementation of globalization strategy, marketing, organizational transformation, supply chain management, and innovation.
Before joining BCG, Paul was employed as a vice president and managing director at Booz and a field engineer at Royal Dutch Shell. He was a contributor to two major BCG reports on the chemical industry.

Riichiro Oda received an MBA with emphasis on International Business from the University of Oregon, USA.
He is an advocate of sustainability-oriented changes, and has worked to promote and diffuse change methodologies such as "systems thinking" and "learning organizations" in Japan. After working in management positions at a multi-national company and managing an environmental NGO, he co-founded Change Agent Inc. in 2005 to provide services related to capacity building and process design in the areas of sustainability and social innovation. He focuses on cross-sectoral shared value creation and capacity building at the individual, organizational, and inter-organizational levels. He has conducted more than 2,000 workshops on systems thinking and learning organization, facilitating more than 30,000 managers and experts in corporations, local governments, JICA, international organizations, and NGOs on capacity building. In the last 10 years, he has been responsible for the Donella Meadows Fellowship, or a capacity building program for female sustainability leaders in developing countries, which has accommodated 44 people from 30 countries.

In academia, he has been a part-time lecturer at the University of Tokyo, Kansai University, and Tohoku University, in addition to the Career Up MOT Program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Keio Senior High School, Keio University, INSEAD (MBA), Grandes Écoles (with Honors), Doctorate from University of Tsukuba (Business Administration), Professor at Hitotsubashi University Graduate School, Visiting Professor at Keio University.
Served as managing director of Tokyo Bank and Barclays Global Investors, the world's largest asset management company, and established the Institution for a Global Society, a place for cultivating global leaders.

Head Priest of Zenshoan Temple
BA in Law, Gakushuin Univerisity.
Became 7th Head Priest of Zenshoan Temple in 2002.
Various business and political leaders including current
prime minister, Shinzo Abe come to visit Head Priest,
Shoshu Hirai to learn Zen Meditation.

Born in Tokyo in 1962.
Graduated from International Christian University, College of Liberal Arts, Humanities Division.
In 1995, Hirata won the 39th Kishida Kunio Drama Award with "Tokyo Note (Tokyo Notes)." In 1998, he received the 5th Yomiuri Theater Award Outstanding Director Award, for his production of "Tsuki no Misaki (The Cape of the Moon)," a play written by Masataka Matsuda. Hirata wrote and directed "Ueno Dobutsuen Sai-sai-sai Shugeki (Attacking Ueno Zoo for the Fourth Time)" in 2002 and won the 9th Yomiuri Theater Award for Outstanding Production.
In 2002, he won AICT (Association Internationale des Critiques des Théâtre) Critique Award for his book "Geijutu Rikkokuron (Arts as the Basis of a Nation)" published from Shueisha. In 2003, he won the Grand Prix of the 2nd Asahi Performing Arts Awards with "Sono Kawa wo Koete, Gogatsu (Across the River in May)," which was an event for the Year of Japan-ROK National Exchange in 2002. In 2006, he won the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award.
In 2011, France’s Ministry of Culture honored Hirata with the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.
At present, Hirata is research professor of the COI Research Promotion Office at the Tokyo University of the Arts, visiting professor of the Osaka University Center for the Study of Co* Design, visiting professor and Special Advisor to the president at Shikoku Gakuin University and Kyoto Bunkyo University, and General Manager of the Fujimi Culture Hall KIRARI FUJIMI. He is also board member of the Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities and the Japanese Society for Theatre Research and advisor for cultural politics for Toyooka City.

After graduating from U. of Tokyo, he joined Mitsubishi Corporation and worked as a B2B marketer for 10 years, during which 5 years were spent in China as a PM for infrastructure projects.
He earned an MBA from Stanford University.
Joined Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and worked as a management consultant for almost 20 years in Tokyo, Shanghai and Nagoya, mainly in such sectors as industrial goods, energy, environment, healthcare, IT and trading and in such areas as business strategy, new business development, reorganization/restructuring, M&A, HRM and social impact. He also served executive positions at BCG such as Sr. Partner & MD, Shanghai Office Head, Administrator of Japan System, Rep. Director of Mid-West Japan, and People Team Chair of Asia-Pac Region.
With a consistent interest in developing people, he started part-time teaching in his late thirties, switched to a full-time position in his fifties and is now in his ninth year as a professor. He teaches strategy, marketing, leadership, diagnosis/transformation of organizations at National Shinshu University in Nagano and Waseda Business School in Tokyo. A total of about 100 graduate students have learnt at his seminars so far. Besides teaching, he has served concurrently as advisor for over 10 institutions in a variety of types e.g. global conglomerates, local SMEs, ventures, NGOs, and municipal enterprises.

Kromack is a strategic consultancy specializing in Growth Strategy, and Service Design/UX Design, helping both startups and multinational corporations. Former Strategist / Consultant at Hakuhodo. And former Chief Strategy Officer at The RealReal—the Silicon Valley-based luxury consignment e-commerce. Lecturer at Singularity University Japan Program (Design Thinking and Prototyping).

Hironori has been leading marketing, brand consulting, and innovation consulting project for major companies in Japan. He currently leads new business development for Hakuhodo. He has focused on new product / service development, business design, UX strategy, brand strategy, marketing strategy. He received Bachelor’s Degree from International Christian University, Master Degree from Keio University, Master Degree from Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, and PhD in Management Science from Kyoto University.

After graduation from Ritsumeikan University, College of Letters Department of Philosophy, Tatsuya Kataoka joined Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd.

He became Branch Manager and later served as Executive Officer, Deputy General Manager, Products Division and Director of Multi-Package Distribution Co., Ltd.

He concurrently served as Executive Director of Tsutaya Online Co., Ltd. Mobile Business Division, and in addition to package distribution, was in charge of the Digital Content Distribution Division.

He became a Director of TC Entertainment, and, from 2009, he concurrently served as a Director of 247Music.

In 2012, he joined the non-profit organization ISL. As a joint program director for the Transformational Leadership Program (TLP) and the Strategic Leadership Program (SLP), he is engaged in executive education of managers of his generation. At the same time, Tatsuya Kataoka is General Manager of the Tohoku Future Creation Initiative, that aims at revitalizing the Tohoku region and creating Japan’s future, and carries out human development, community development and industrial development at the forefront of regional revitalization. Currently, he is appointed as a reconstruction adviser for Kesennuma City and Ofunato City.

Takeshi Kawasaki graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Science. After graduation, he joined NTT East, where he worked in system engineering, corporate planning, and new business development. In 2013, he joined A.T. Kearney, where he is responsible for a wide range of CXO issues for the information technology and media industries in Japan and Southeast Asia. From 2019, he has been a part-time lecturer at Keio Business School, utilizing his experience as a practitioner.

Mr. Kojima started his professional career at Corporate Directions, Inc. (CDI) Then, he transferred to International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group (Washington, D.C.) and AFRY Management Consulting (Former Pöyry, Singapore office). He established CDI Asia-Pacific (Singapore) and assumed Partner at CDI. Then, he joined Industrial Growth Platform, Inc (IGPI) as Principal and become Director.

Bachelor of Law, Keio University. MA in International Relations, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. MBA, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

For over 20 years, he has been recognized as one of the　top economists and strategists in Japan. He served as the
Managing Director for Equity Research at JP Morgan in　Tokyo, the Chief Economist for Merrill Lynch Japan, and the Chief Economist for JP Morgan.
For his highly regarded analysis and insights, he has been appointed as a member of numerous government committees. He is one of the few non-Japanese member of Keizai Doyukai.
He has written three books in Japanese, “Japan’s Economy – The Envy of the World” (2017), “The End of Heisei Deflation“ (2001), and “Towards a New Japanese Golden Age” (1999).
When he came to Japan in 1986, he worked for three years as an aide to a Member of Parliament.
He earned an M.A. in International Economics at Johns Hopkins University, and worked as a researcher at both Tokyo University and Kyoto University.

Researcher of body sensation education. She teaches people how to nurture their own bodies by understanding daily movements and “型（kata）” in Japanese culture through their senses and using them as wisdom and techniques that can be applied to daily life. She has been involved in research and cooperation in the creation of teaching materials for school education, corporate training, midwife training, and courses in collaboration with Buddhist monks.

Larry is a very experienced executive coach who specializes in working with leaders to develop to their full potential, enhancing leadership skills and effectiveness, stretching into their new roles, and upgrading organizational structures. Since 1999, He has given over 500 executive coaching to major corporations in Japan.
With his unique coaching model based on psychological/behavioral studies, Larry has helped many executives enhancing emotional intelligence, integrating more efficient interpersonal skills into their leadership repertoire, and achieving their individual and business goals.
Larry has a BA in business administration from Kyoto University, and there he also studied Clinical Psychology from 1988 to 1994. He is a CEO of Zom , a special advisor for SNA Coaching Association, an examiner for career counseling certificate program at Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic Development, a special professor at Dokkyo University teaching Psychology, and an associate member of　International Society for Research on Emotions. As a mental coach of Nippondensan-Sankyo speed skate team since 2003, Larry has participated to the Winter Olympic game at Turin in 2006,at Vancouver in 2010, Sochi in 2014. Two skaters got medals at Vancouver.

Dr. Miyadai was born in 1959 in Miyagi prefecture. He graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Tokyo University.
He got his Doctorate of Sociology from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Sociology and was an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo, College of Arts and Science from 1987. In 1990, he was a full-time lecturer at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and in 1993 became an Associate Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He worked as an Associate Professor in the Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Urban Liberal Arts from 2005 and has been in his current position since 2007.
While specializing in social system theory, he also became a leading expert in the research of subcultures, such as telekura (テレクラ), kogal (コギャル) and compensated dating (援助交際). He is also active on television and radio, becoming a popular figure on media.

Joined HR Service section of Recruit. Mainly responsible for the development of employment and job-change services, also worked as Chief Editor of Rikunabi. Became Executive Officer in Charge of Jinzai Sogo Service in 2004. Became Director of Recruit (HR, General Affairs, PR) in 2006. Responsible for the reconstruction of Recruit Agent after the “Lehman Shock” and became the first Representative Director of Recruit Career after the unification of Recruit’s HR section and Recruit Agent in 2012.
Started studies at ISL in 2004 and also took part in ISL’s “Koshien Leadership Project”. Founded a new organization in Shimane based on ISL’s motto “LEAD THE SOCIETY” after retirement in 2016, dealing with yet unsolved problems like the concentration of talented young people in urban large enterprises and the teaching of essential skills needed in society.
Engaged in HR development and HR circulation projects of young, motivated people in the region based on a reform of the management system of regional High Schools.

Tsuyoshi Nishitani joined KPMG Azsa in Tokyo first in his career and was engaged in audits and other financial advisory services in various industries.
After leaving KPMG, he spent two years studying at a graduate school in the U.S. After he graduated, he joined Industrial Growth Platform Inc. (IGPI) and engaged in many projects such as planning and executing business model, various financial advisory services, advisory for business turnaround etc.
He founded Prime Mover Inc. after he left IGPI. His main business is to support private companies, local governments, and educational institutions in resolving their management issues and increasing their business value as an advisor or an external officer (director and corporate auditor).
He has a track record of holding various seminars for private companies and the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
He holds MBA from University of Texas at Austin and BA in Economics from Keio University.

1981 Graduated from the Faculty of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University. Joins the Nomura Research Institute (NRI).
1987 Took a master’s degree from Hitotsubashi University.
1992 Appointed Manager, NRI Management Consulting Department.
2000 Appointed Executive Manager, NRI Management Consulting Department.
April 2001 Appointed to the post of Assistant Professor (later promoted to Professor), the School of Management and Information Sciences, Tama University.
April 2008 Appointed to the post of Professor, the Graduate School of Global Business (MBA Program), Meiji University, and Special Research Advisor, Recruit Works Research, Recruit Co., Ltd. (now Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.).
Minoru Noda specializes in organizational theory, strategic management theory, and meeting management.
His focus is on individual behaviors and decision making in a wide range of organizations, from small groups to large corporations.

Yumiko Noda is President of Veolia Japan K.K., an organization of over 9,000 employees, which provides an array of solutions related to water, energy and waste recovery. She was previously Partner of PwC Japan leading infrastructure and PPP practice. She is recognized as one of the pioneers who introduced the PFI/PPP concept to Japan.
Between 2007 and 2009 she served as the Deputy Mayor of Yokohama City.
She holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Tokyo University.

Mr. Osamu Noro is a specialist in career development and leadership training. His 2 main programs include the career-building "Self-Empowerment Training Program", and "Co-Empowerment Leadership Program" aimed for leadership development.
He took part in product research and development as an engineer for Nitto Boseki (1985-1989). After continuing his profession as a management consultant for Arthur D. Little Japan(1989-1996), and an instructor for leadership development at Franklin Covey Japan(1996-2002), he began his career as a freelance trainer in 2002.
He is originally from Mie, Japan. Mr. Noro holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in applied chemistry from Keio University in 1985.

As a management consultant, Daisuke owns ample experience in leading the projects in the area of strategy development, end-to-end transformation including front-line performance initiative execution, corporate transactions such as M&A, divestiture and JV formation, business integration, organizational transformation and leadership development. He covers broad industries such as manufacturing, material and energy, consumer products, institutional investors. He has experience working at Goldman Sachs and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). He holds MA from the University of Tokyo.

Miyuki is a pioneer executive coach in Japan and founded SyncVoice Inc., in 1998 to specialize in coaching, communication and leadership development. She has coached top executives to express their vision and mission and inspire team members to action. She also trained more than 1,500 coaches to be professional as the first faculty for Coaches Training Institute in Japan. She is an affiliate advisor for McKinsey & Company to support their clients’ dialogue in the process of organization change. She has experience working at Burson-Marsteller and Motorola and holds a Master’s Degree in Communication Studies from Northern Illinois University.

After graduating from the University of Oxford with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, he spent five years in Hong Kong and Japan working for Cathay Pacific Airways.After completing an MBA at INSEAD in France, he joined the UK merchant bank SG Warburg (now UBS Investment Bank). He also spent three years as CEO of UBS’s institutional asset management division in Japan.
After he left the bank in 2001, He completed his Ph.D. dissertation on the impact of foreign ownership and control on Japanese organizations at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge in 2005. He was Senior Fellow at the Judge Business School until 2013 and Project Professor at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo between 2010 and 2013. He was Guest Professor at the Faculty of Commerce, Keio University from 2013. He has also served on the board of number of leading Japanese companies since 2008 (currently Denso Corporation, Dai-ichi Life Holdings and Kirin Holdings). In the UK, he is a member of the boards of JP Morgan Japanese Investment Trust plc and BlueOptima Limited.

Katsuhiro has professional career experience at the Development Bank of Japan and a management consulting firm. He teaches at multiple universities including Waseda University Business School as a visiting professor or a visiting lecturer.

Born in Kobe Hyogo. Joined A.T. Kearney after graduating from the business department of Kobe University. Completed MAP of INSEAD.
Experienced more than 100 projects on strategy, organization, process reform, operation transformation for more than 20 clients in consumer goods, retail, media, service, real estate, financial, auto, pharmaceutical industry.

Acquired his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering and Master’s of Science in Physics. He has served as the Chief Technology Officer of Texas Instruments Japan Semiconductor Group, General Manager of AMD Japan Next Generation Product Development Center, and Executive Officer and CTO of Fillmore Advisory. He holds a private pilot license and is a PMI certified PMP. He is the author of many technology-related books and translations, including:

Deep Learning Official Textbook for G-Examination (ISBN-10: 9784798157559)
Learn everything about iPhone Application Programming (ISBN-10: 4797364629)
Agile Software Development with Java (ISBN-10: 4797347783)
Agile Software Development with C++ (ISBN-10: 4797323361)
DSP C Programming - Embedded System Programming 101 (ISBN-10: 4774110787)
All about DSP(Digital Signal Processor for Beginners (ISBN-10: 4774106534)
Dummies for C++ 3rd Edition, IDG Books Worldwide (ISBN-10: 479730829X)

Yohei Takabe joined Boston Consulting Group in 2005. He leads the firm’s Insurance practice in Asia Pacific, and Technology Advantage practice in Japan. He is also a core member of the Financial Institutions and Technology, Media & Telecommunications practices. He leads BCG’s work in digital technology and advanced analytics in Japan. He has acquired deep experience in digital-and IT-related topics across a range of industries including insurance and financial services. Prior to joining BCG, Yohei was a consultant with IBM Business Consulting Services (formerly PriceWaterhouseCoopers).
He is a co-author of Insurance Company Management in the Digital Revolution Era (Kinyu Zaisei Jijyo), BCG Digital Transformation (Nikkei Publishing), and Management Issues for 2019 Decoded by BCG (Nikkei Publishing).

Dr. Yutaka Takahashi is expert in system dynamics methodology and practical applications. He earned his PhD at Gakushuin University, located in Tokyo, Japan. Recently, he is active as a Vice President of Japan Chapter of System Dynamics Society. Dr. Takahashi is teaching also at Graduate School of Frontier Science, University of Tokyo.

Mr. Takatsu has been consistently engaged in supporting the evolution of Japanese organizations and talent in the changing world, througout his career over three dacades (at the Industrial Bank of Japan, the Boston Consulting Group, Recruit and then the Swiss business school IMD).

Leveraging his interest in manaegment studies, art, culture, society, and his fluency in Japanese, English and French, he often acts as a facilitator of knowledge creation, connecting people from different worlds and fields.

He is also active in writing and speaking on leadership, competitiveness, and executive development.

Daisuke joined CVC in 2016. He is a member of the CVC Operations team in Asia and is based in Tokyo. Prior to joining CVC, he spent over fourteen years at The Carlyle Group as a Director, leading management and leveraged Buy-Out transactions. Prior to that, he worked for the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund. Daisuke holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and an LL.B. from the University of Tokyo.

Professor Tamura received his Bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Law at Keio University. He received the masters degree at Harvard Law School as a Fulbright scholar. He has been a Professor at Keio University since 1987. He is the recipient of the Yokota award, which is the young scholar award in economic law. He was engaged in global negotiation such as US-Japan trade negotiation, and WTO negotiation. He is an International Academic Advisor to Harvard International Negotiation program, and the member to the committee of "Negotiation and Conflict Resolution" at the World Economic Forum. He is currently working on research and development of "Leadership Basics" and "Negotiation" in Japan.

Kazuhiko Toyama has started his career with BCG and later became one of the founding members of Corporate Directions, Inc. (CDI), a Tokyo-based independent management consulting firm, eventually becoming its CEO. In 2003, he was appointed to lead Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan (IRCJ), a government-backed restructuring fund, as COO. In 2007, when IRCJ was dissolved, he founded Industrial Growth Platform, Inc. (IGPI), which he currently runs as its CEO. He graduated from Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo and holds an MBA from Stanford University. He has passed the Japanese National Bar Examination.
Chair, Public Policy Council, KEIZAI DOYUKAI (Japan Association of Corporate Executives), Expert member of Council on Economic Fiscal Policy (MOF), Member of The Tax Commission (CAO), Member of the Council of Experts Concerning the Corporate Governance Code (FSA)

After graduating from the Faculty of Law, Kyoto University in 1980, he joined the Ministry of Transport. He ,then studied Public Management at Princeton University and earned master's degree (M.P.A.). In 1986, he joined McKinsey & Company where he became a partner in 1992 and published two books on change management.
In 2000, he left McKinsey and joined GPPI at Georgetown University as a Research Professor of Public Management as well as a senior fellow at the Tokyo Foundation. In 2003, he became a research professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University as well as a specially appointed professor at the Graduate School of Creative City, Osaka City University.
In 2007, he became a full-time professor at Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University until present. He also serves as independent director, business consultant, advisors to governors and mayors, independent director, government committee member, at both central and local governments. He visited 117 countries. He has experience of being seconded to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was a member of the evaluation and reform committee of UN agencies.

Masataka UO is the founder and CEO of Japan Fundraising Association, a nationwide network that promotes philanthropic giving and social impact investment in Japan, and the founder and CEO of Fundrex.Co.Ltd, a leading consulting company which provides strategic development, impact management, and system consulting for more than 150 nonprofits and social business. He is also Trustee, Global Steering Group for Impact Investment.

He is a hub of creating ecosystems in Japan for social innovation and impact. He is leading to create impact investment markets, impact measurement initiatives, philanthropic giving, fundraising, family philanthropy, legacy giving.

Aside from serving at the Economic Cooperation Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, he also worked for Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

At Kearney, Jeff is focused on leading his clients through pivotal moments of change. He advises leaders in the healthcare, consumer goods, and high tech sectors on a range of strategic issues including cross-border growth and transformation. Jeff has lived and worked in the US, the UK, Singapore, China, and Japan and brings a cross-cultural approach to his relationships and work.

Intensely curious about the world and our role in it, Jeff has pursued a wide range of life experiences that inform his approach to building whole-person leaders. He completed an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MIA from The School of International and Public Affairs, and an MPP from The University of Tokyo. Prior to his role at Kearney, Jeff worked as an aerospace engineer, a teacher, and development practitioner. He loves learning languages, exploring the outdoors, and understanding the mind through meditation and science.

Established Cre-en Inc., a marketing company run by women, in 1988. Started its Environment and CSR business in 1995, which has expanded into supporting over 800 companies through consulting and reporting services in the area of CSR management, SDGs, long-term scenario analysis, and more.

Dr Wong Lai Yong is the founder, principal trainer and consultant of First Penguin Sdn. Bhd. in Penang, Malaysia.
She helps organizations through her speaking, consulting and training on sustainability matters as she believes that it is important now more than ever to align personal and corporate purpose to the world at large. Focusing on purpose and people enables an organization to fully demonstrate its values and principles of doing business while doing good.
Dr Wong is a “connector” between Japan, Malaysia and Asia, speaking multiple languages such as Japanese, English, Malay, Cantonese, Hokkien and Mandarin.
She sits on boards in Japan (such as Nitto Denko Corporation) and in Malaysia (Penang Women’s Development Corporation), providing expertise and experience to create more exciting opportunities for women and youth as well as drive sustainability matters forward. Her work has been featured extensively in the Japanese and Malaysian media.
She gives lectures on sustainability topics as the Adjunct Associate Professor at Japan’s Shizenkan University. She is also the Deputy Director at the Center for Sustainability and Innovation of the same university. The center aims to turn the world’s most urgent social and environmental challenges into new and exciting opportunities.
For her contribution towards Japan, she was conferred the 2016 Asia Pacific Shining Women award by the Japanese Cabinet Office (equivalent to the Prime Minister’s Office in Malaysia). She is also the founding member and current president of the Malaysian Rotary Yoneyama Alumni Association.

Started as an engineer at Japan Highway Public Corporation (changed into Nexco) in 1988. Then, moved to McKinsey & Company in 1996 with strong interest in globalization of Japanese manufacturing companies/industry and promoted to a partner. After 13 years with McKinsey, went independent as a business consultant and worked with Carlyle Group, Japan. Then, joined Accenture as a managing director of management consulting in 2011 with special interest in degitalization/IoT. In 2017, started a venture of HR tech area to explore every possible potential of business people at notable corporations.
University of Tokyo, Civil Engineering, BA and MS / Stanford University MBA

Prior to joining BCG, Daniel worked at Rakuten, the leading EC marketplace in Japan, and at another strategy consulting firm.
Daniel has broad experiences in consulting and industry across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, with a focus on developing strategies and infrastructure leveraging digital capabilities. Recently, he specializes in delivering breakthrough business results for clients through artificial intelligence, statistics, and machine learning.

Degrees in:
Physics & Astrophysics from Radboud University (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
International Politics from Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan)

Yas Iwanaga is CRIO at Amundi Japan from July 2020. Prior to joining Amundi Japan in July 2014 as CIO, he spent 13 years at BlackRock Japan (formerly Barclays Global Investors). Yas graduated from the law faculty of Hitotsubashi University, earned his MBA from the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania, and Ph.D. in finance from EDHEC Risk Institute. He is a CFA charterholder.

After completing MFA Theater Directing at Middlesex University (London, England), he has been one of the associate directors of SEINENDAN Theater Company since April 2002. In addition to his activities as a director, he has been working as a Workshop Designer, planning and implementing collaborative workshops that combine a wide range of social themes and Drama/Theater, with local governments, educational institutions and companies, all over the country.
Theater credits as a director include; "Twelfth Night" "A Midsummer Night's Dream" "Julius Caesar" and "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, Matthew Dunster's "You Can See The Hills", Garry McNair "A Gambler's Guide to Dying", Operetta "The Merry Widow", Mono-Opera "La Voix humaine" by Francis Poulenc, Broadway Musical "GYPSY", etc.

Masanobu Iwabuchi is a Managing Director & Partner at Boston Consulting Group(BCG).
After managing Softbank and several IT and Venture companies, the Head of Digital Strategy Practice at Deloitte and McKinsey & Company, he joined BCG in 2019.
Masanobu is now the Japan leader of the BCG Marketing, Sales and Pricing Practice and also the core member of the High Tech, Media and Telecommunications Group. He also works with government commissioners and academic institutions in the areas of design management and the art industry.
He also joined ISL in 2022, and is responsible for the TLP Seminar Faculty.

Masanobu graduated from the INSEAD International Executive Program.

Naonori Kimura’s activities include numerous advisory services such as corporate strategies including breakthroughs, strategy shifts and re-growth initiatives. He has advised clients on business management streamlining, structural reforms, financial strategy, new business development, M&A strategies, and cost competitiveness. He is currently Chairman & President of IGPI (Shanghai) Ltd. and outside director of Molten Corporation and Relia, Inc.. He is also Advisory board member of The Japan Times ESG consortium.
Prior to IGPI, he launched a venture business, worked with NCR Japan and later at Towers Perrin and Arthur D. Little Japan.
He graduated from Keio University, School of Economics, and holds an MBA from the University of Leicester and an MS in Finance from the Lancaster University. He also completed AMP in Harvard Business School.

1988 Joined Recruit Co.
1993-2000 Engaged in new business development as Manager of New Business Development Office, Recruit Co.
2000-2009 Participated in the founding of All About, Inc. Listed on JASDAQ in 2005.
In 2010, he founded Incubator Inc. He has helped more than 100 companies, mainly large corporations, with a total of 2,000 projects and more than 4,000 employees to start new businesses within their companies.
He is the author of “Hajimete-no Shanai Kigyo” (2015), "New Business Workbook" (2017), and "DeepSkill" (2022).

Nalin has held leadership and investor roles at global technology powerhouses such as WindRiver, eSOL, Barco, and GreyOrange, with two successful IPOs from his portfolio. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at BIPROGY Inc, traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Born and raised in Yokohama, Japan, Nalin holds a Masters Degree from UCLA Anderson School of Management, and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore. Apart from his professional involvement, Nalin has served on the Board of Directors at Yokohama Junior Chamber and was the 50th President of the organization in 2001. He is a Founding Charter Member of TiE Japan, serves as Vice Chairman of the Yokohama India Centre, and is a practicing Sogetsu Ikebana artist.

Motoki is an Executive Coach and a Director of an ICF certified coaching school. He has coached executives and leaders internationally and trained 100+ coaches in Japan.
He is passionate about supporting executives and leaders to embrace authenticity and maximize their impact so they can lead well.
Prior to coaching, he was a professional in the field of sports medicine and treated 1000+ athletes. Because of this experience, his coaching also utilizes neuroscience and behavioral psychology, resulting in deeper transformation.
He is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Developmental Sprint® Facilitator, and a coach to many professional coaches. He is also a Life Languages communication coach, utilizing an assessment tool specialized in communication among families, teams, and companies.