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President
Kimiko Horii
Management consultant and career counselor
She started her career in Japan Air Lines as a staff of Sales
Planning Dept. and moved on to an foreign-affiliated manufacturing
company as Executive Secretary for the General Manager in
Japan and Korea. Then, she moved to Avon where she worked
in various departments such as sales planning, new business
development, sales promotion, and management planning. When
she retired at the end of 2001, she was National Sales Director,
managing about 700 sales people and improved sales under difficult
environment. She received her Bachelor of Arts at Tokyo University
and has certifications of AFP, CDA, and Mentor by Orijen Pty.
Ltd.
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Vice President
Ann
Sado-Honjyo
Representative Director of A TO Z Sado Enterprises Ltd.
Marketing Consultant.
Her extensive marketing/PR expertise comes from hands-on experience
as a marketing manager of multi-national brands such as Aramis
(Estee Lauder), Lancome, and Helena Rubinstein (L'Oreal),
and as a management consultant at Roland Berger & Partners Ltd. under the Deutsche Bank
for the consumer goods industry, as well as Vice President of Apparel at Reebok Japan.
She started her own small consulting firm in 1995 serving as advisor for Ginza
Shorou Gallery and as outside consultant for various PR firms. She also pioneered
in establishing Legacy Memoirs, private publishing of family
and personal oral histories in 1998.
Currently interviewing skills and effective questioning/communications
skills workshops have been added. Born in Tokyo, Sado is a
third-generation Japanese-American, bilingual and bi-cultural.
She received her Bachelor of Arts at Occidental College in
1970, and Master of Arts at Waseda University Graduate School
in 1980.
http://www.atoz-sado.com/
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Director
Hitomi
Konishi
President of Life Designs Office. Career development advisor,
communication advisor, and university lecturer.
She joined the Marketing dept. of Avon Products in 1982 after
working for an advertising agency as an art director. She
became the first general manager of Sales dept. out of Marketing
and achieved 2nd place in nationwide sales. After moving to
the HR Development dept. in 1993 and then, to the Sales Training
dept., she was in charge of recruiting and personnel educational
programs, development and management of educational programs
targeted to new sales staff, as well as group/team training.
In 1997, she was in charge of the total sales management of
Mary Kay Cosmetics.
Currently, she is a lecturer at a training course for career
development advisors authorized by the Japan Career Development
Association. She also teaches a career development course
at several universities and offers career counseling and guidance
to university students and adults. In addition, she gives
lectures at corporations and government offices for the purpose
of revitalizing organizations.
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Director
Hiroko
Tatebe
Founder of GOLD
Principal & International Consultant of Global Integration
She is a former Director, Executive Vice President and Treasurer
of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank of California (formerly Japan California
Bank; currently Mizuho Corporate Bank of California). Tatebe
was named "Outstanding Business Woman of the Year"
in 2000 by the Los Angeles Chapter of Women in Business, currently
serves on the Board of Directors of Organization of Women
Executives, Women's Transportation Coalition and Whittier
College Alumni Association. She is past President of Financial
Women International, past Board member of the California Bankers
Association, and past Advisory Board member of the National
Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) Los Angeles Chapter.
Tatebe received her Bachelor of Arts at Whittier College in
1973 and diploma from Graduate School of Banking at Bank Administration
Institute & the University of Wisconsin in 1983.
http://www.goldleaders.org
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Director
Rieko
Ichiya
She started her career at a trading company after graduating
from an English technical school. Then, she moved to an advertising
agency, working in the administrative section of the International
Dept. experiencing various assignments such as documentation,
schedule management of advertising materials, data management
for direct mailers, translation, and others. In 2001, she spent
a year studying English in the U.S. and worked as a temporary
staff for a foreign affiliated company after returning home.
Now, she works for a translation company.
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Director
Nobuo Udagawaa
Mr. Nobuo Udagawa has worked in some of the world famous US based multi-national
FMCG companies such as Nippon Vicks, Avon Products, Philip Morris Japan K.K.
and Kraft Japan. He has held senior marketing/sales management and business
management positions in those companies. He has extensive experience of 31
years in FMCG industry and obtained first hand insight into Japanese consumers'
psyche. He is an enthusiastic, insightful and experienced executive. Key
strengths include the capability of managing complicated business and organization
issues and building excellent internal and external working relationships.
Posses strong sense of leadership, integrity, analytical and achievement
orientation.
Currently, he is Chief Advisor of Marketing Research firm, Util where he and
his team, in cooperation with the leading Internet portal site, NEC BIGLOBE,
successfully developed an empowered online research management program called “BU
net research”.
He graduated from Hosei University and studied Business Administration.
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Director
Yoko Okamura
Manager, Corporate Marketing, Altera Japan Ltd.
She is responsible for corporate marketing at Altera Japan, a Silicon Valley
based semiconductor company. Prior to Altera, she was responsible for PR and
IR for one of the top ERP system company in Japan. Before that, she was a
co-founder, director and executive vice president of eigoTown.com, and
internet based educational publishing company. She has a BA from Waseda
university, studies at Kent university in England, and holds an MBA from
Graduate School of International Management of Aoyama Gakuin.
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Director
Maki Kimura
Free-lance Writer
As a freelance journalist since 2003, she covers sustainablity-oriented
business practices and lifestyles not only in Japan but
also worldwide. The business magazine "Alterna"
which she launchs as an associate editor will specialize
in carrying the articles covering issues such as Corporate
Social Responsibility (CSR), Social Entrepreneurship, Lifestyles
of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) etc.
She is a former staff reporter of Jiji Press Ltd. in economics
for the fields of heavy industry and electric machinery
and appliances industry. She was also in charge of overseas
economic news coverage and editorials. During 1998 she covered
the Winter Olympics from the Nagano News Bureau.
After leaving Jiji Press, she spent the academic year of
2004-05 as a visiting scholar of Social Enterprise Program
at Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She
graduated from Waseda University and has B.A in political
science.
http://www.pangea.co.jp/c-press/poco/
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Director
Kyoko
Sakuma
Founder of Sustainable Analysis & Consulting (SA&C)
sprl.
Sustainable Analysis & Consulting (SA&C) sprl. founded
in 2003 enhances the understanding of inter-cultural business
practices in corporate social responsibility (CSR) research
and socially responsible investment (SRI) criteria and facilitates
organizations to identify issues at stake, to hold dialogue
with stakeholders, and to assess their sustainability conformance.
SA&C is a partner organization of Ethibel Group, which
is a Belgium non-for-profit certification and research body
for SRI funds. She began her career in the European Commission
as a consultant, involved in the research work on comparative
corporate finance and corporate governance at the Director
General of Economic & Financial Affairs and the Director-General
of Enterprise between 1990-1992. Her career expanded to the
Center of European Policy Studies in Belgium where she researched
"EU-Japan Relations." In 1998 she joined Hill and
Knowlton International, where she initiated a EU Japan Business
Practice Group while advising companies in the area of EU
financial services and company laws. She received her Bachelor
of Arts at Clark University, a Masters degree at Georgetown
University, and a MBA at Solvay Business School.
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Director
Sachiko Fujii
Pharma marketing consultant
Director of Japanese servant leadership association, NPO
Pharmacist
She graduated from Pharmaceutical Division of Tokyo University of Science and started her career at a Japanese detergent company as a researcher. Then she joined SANDOZ, a Swiss pharmaceutical company. She spent most of the time as a marketer at the pharmaceutical company and launched two new products successfully. The second product, at time of Novartis (because of merger) became a blockbuster which annual sales have reached more than 10 billion JPY, and her marketing approach was notable in the industry. Especially color branding was remarked. After such marketing success, she was assigned as the first head of diversity office in the company. The awareness about diversity and Inclusion among the company was immediately increased due to her marketing approach. She aimed D&I initiative to be a sustainable growth of the organization and started to change an organization climate. During this period she was aware the importance of leadership as individuals as well as managers. After retirement from the pharmaceutical company, she started to act as pharma marketing consultant and diversity & inclusion consultant.
Japanese servant leadership association, NPO
http://www.servantleader.jp/
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Director
Maki
Sasaki
Certification Professional Co-active Coach (CPCC)
She started her career as a General Manager's secretary at
the headquarters of a publicly listed textile company from
1986. In 1995 she joined a non-profit research institute,
Women and Work Research Center, where she was in charge of
editing surveys on citizen’s awareness, gender equality
surveys, and booklets of gender enlightenment. In 1999, she
was in charge of Secretariat for the Advancement of Women’s
Initiative, which supported working women and effective utilization
of women in corporations, she was involved in interview surveys
at corporations that utilized female employees, inviting people
from overseas, and planning and management of international
symposiums. She has a broad knowledge about NPO and her current
work also includes coaching to individuals. Graduated from
Doshisha University.
http://www.jfca.or.jp
http://capacitybuilding.livedoor.biz/
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<<Advisors>>
(alphabetical order)
Masanori Kanda (Japan)
President, Almac Inc.
Adviser, Living History Project
Mitsu Kimata (Japan)
Director-CEO, JKSK (Empowering Women, Empowering Society) Past President of The Body Shop Japan K.K.
Former Minister to the United Nations
Takashi Kiuchi (Japan)
Chairman, Future 500
Former Chairman & CEO of Mitsubishi Corporation of America
Kaneichi Maehara (Japan)
Deputy Vice President, Showa Women's University
Akio Matsushita (Japan)
Tax Accountant, Matsushita Accounting Office
Nobuko Narita (Japan)
Lawyer, Tokyo Aoyama Aoki Law Office
Yoko Ohara (Japan)
President, IFI Business School
Aiko Okawara (Japan)
Chairman, JC-Comsa Corp.
Sakie Tachibana-Fukushima (Japan)
Regional Managing Director - Japan, Korn/Ferry International
Mizue Unno (Japan)
Founder & Managing Director, So-Tech Consulting Inc.
Akiko Yamanaka (Japan)
Member of the Japanese Diet, Liberal Democratic Party
Former Professor, United Nations University
Miyuki Zeniya (Japan)
Former Vice-president of The Saikyo Bank, Ltd.
Leslie Grossman (U.S.A)
President, B2Women
Co-founder, Women Leadership Exchange
Past President, National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), New York
Advisory Board Council, Center for Women's Business Research
Kay Iwata (U.S.A)
The founder and CEO of K. Iwata Associates, Inc.
Marianne E. Johnson (Norway)
Founder, partner and chairperson of X-lence Group AS, a management consulting company working with turnarounds in the industrial sector in the Nordic countries.
She has extensive board experience the last ten years in the fields of technology, finance, shipping, aquaculture and oil & gas.
Johnsen is a lawyer from the University in Oslo and holds an MBA from Solvay Business school in Brussels."
Yunsook Lee (Korea)
Vice President, Korean Federation of Community School Movement Board of Trustees, School Foundation, Sungkyunkwan University Board of Directors, Korean Fund for Women Former Minister, Ministry of Political Affairs II (Women's Affairs)
Adrienne Pon (U.S.A)
Executive Director, Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs.
Past CEO, ZEUM (San Francisco, CA)
Former Chairperson, Board of Trustees APAWLI (Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute)
Vivian Shimoyama (U.S.A)
President, Breakthru Unlimited
Past President, NAWBO LA Enterprise Institute
Glenda Stone (U.K.)
CEO, Aurora Gender Capital Management
Bernadette Tesch-Segol (France/Belgium)
Regional Secretary, UNI Europe (Union Network International Europe)
Tessa Albert Warschaw, Ph.D (U.S.A)
President, The Warschaw Group
Founder, Big Thinking Women (BTW Unlimited)
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