I help CEOs achieve outstanding business results faster than they ever thought possible. I have appeared on Bloomberg News for expert commentary on Japanese business issues, and I’m a regular contributor to Nikkei business newspapers both in English and Japanese. View videos.

My books, Rapid Organizational Change (Wiley & Sons, 2017) and Charismatic Disruption (Growth Zone Press, 2022), are indispensable guides for CEOs in Japan and elsewhere who want to change and grow their businesses fast.

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Fluent in Japanese and French, I am one of those rare international experts who bridges Western and Japanese business thinking. My clients include global companies like Adidas, Danone, Godiva, Barry Callebaut, Merck Biopharma, Novo Nordisk, BMW, Maserati, AIG Group, AXA Direct, L’Oréal, Cartier, Corning, Lenovo, Kuehne+Nagel, and Nihon Michelin, to name a few.

I serve as a co-chair of the Independent Business Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce and bienfaiteur-level member of the French Chamber of Commerce. I have been running the ever-popular “Conversation With” series for both chambers of commerce, where I conduct an onstage discussion with business leaders of companies in Japan, like CEOs of Chanel, LVMH, Unilever, Seiyu-Walmart, Barilla, and others.

I hold a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia,  and an international MBA from the University of South Carolina in the United States.

I am an avid cyclist. So most mornings pre-dawn, you will find me on his road bike, cycling up mountain passes and tearing down winding descents in the Tsukuba Mountain range close to my home—assuming you can catch up with me!