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.
