Podcast

Episode #55: Reiko Nakamura, Managing Director, SGK Japan

Reiko Nakamura, Managing Director of SGK Japan, first began her career as a radio DJ in Kobe, where she gr...

Episode #54: Ken Shibusawa, President, Shibusawa and Company, Inc

Ken Shibusawa shares extensive insight in the global financial sector and alternative investment that has be...

Episode #53: David Wouters, ex Corporate Liaison Manager, Coca-Cola Japan

David Wouters is the President of InterSearch Japan, an executive search and human resources consultancy com...

Episode #52: Moeko Suzuki, Founder, StartUp Lady/Tailor Innovations

Moeko Suzuki provides valuable insight as a young global-minded entrepreneur having studied in the UK, US an...

Episode #51: Seth Sulkin, CEO, Pacifica Capital, Pacifica Hotels, Food-e

Seth Sulkin takes us through his journey in Japan from working as a journalist to a civil servant to becomin...

Episode #50: Jim Weisser, CEO & Co-founder, SignTime K.K.

Jim Weisser shares his leadership journey in the Japanese IT sector after arriving in Japan to initially te...

Episode #49: Frank Foley ex Managing Director, HarperCollins Japan

Frank Foley, founder of the Next Big Thing and former Managing Director of HarperCollins Japan, provides a d...

Episode #48: Claus Eilersen, Senior Vice President, Novo Nordisk

Claus Eilersen, Senior Vice President of Novo Nordisk, Japan, provides deep insight in leading in the pharma...

Episode #47: Wolfgang Angyal, President & CEO, RSN (Riedel) Japan

Wolfgang Angyal, President of Riedel Japan, originally grew up in Austria and came to Japan in 1985 as an Au...

Episode #46: Loic Rethore, President North Asia, Dyson Japan

Loic Rethore, North Asia President of Dyson, shares his diverse background working in the consumer, luxury a...

Episode #45: Timothy Connor, Managing Director, Synnovate Advisory

Timothy Connor, Managing Director of Synnovate Advisory has been a veteran of Japanese business, having work...

Episode #44: Christian Wolf, Managing Director, JAS Forwarding Japan

Christian Wolf, Managing Director of JAS Forwarding Japan originally moved to Japan straight out of universi...

Episode #43: Paul Goldsmith, Country Manager, Aquent Japan

Paul Goldsmith, Country Manager of Aquent Japan, shared his extensive leadership experience in the recruitme...

Episode #88: Cold Calling Scripts

Cold calling is a nightmare at the best of times and even much worse when we don’t know what we are doing. ...

Episode #87: We All Need Catalysts

Ever heard that a training course changed somebody's life? "It was good", "I enjoyed it", “I learnt somethi...

Episode #86: Delivery Skills Rule in Presenting

Memorizing speeches and reading them are both bad ideas. Okay. Then what are we supposed to do? Find out ...

Episode #85: Have a Sales Point of View

People enter sales with no thought. They find it is tough and leave or are fired. How about basing your sa...

Episode #84: Habit Your Way To Success

Bad habits feed off laziness and inflexibility. Good habits need discipline, work, consistency. Which is p...

Episode #83: How To Own Your Audience

Idiots believe content quality and value trumps delivery. Limited concentration spans in this Age of distra...

Episode #82: People Harden Up

We think sales is tough and we are sick of clients saying no. We want to quit. When you consider this story...