Leadership
We help create social value by making the best use of their people
Refine your 'wisdom' and 'axis' and awaken your leadership as a corporate and social reformer.
In an age without clear solutions, leaders must continually drive business, organizational, and personal transformation. To navigate unprecedented change, they need to sharpen both their "wisdom" (the ability to implement change through knowledge and skills) and their "axis" (the core values and mindset that ground them as leaders). Leaders who possess both "wisdom" and "axis" act decisively and deliver results that matter to management.
This is ICMG's concept of leadership.
Challenges Our Clients Face
I want to structure my organization's leadership development.
We want to create a pool of human resources for corporate transformation.
Not enough leaders with for the future of the company
How did we help?
We emphasize the development of leaders who possess both “wisdom” and “axis,” and provide programs that encourage individual awareness and action. Wisdom” refers to the ability to change based on skills, and ‘axis’ refers to beliefs and values, and we aim to develop leaders who can produce meaningful results by honing these qualities. Through intense experiential learning and introspection, the program is designed for all levels, from new recruits to executives, and includes collaboration with IWNC and across divisions and corporate boundaries to simultaneously achieve individual growth and organizational transformation, and support management reform and business creation.
Awakening, overwhelming sense of ownership
ICMG's accompaniment begins with human resources, the source of an organization or company. For this reason, our programs are designed not as training programs that merely teach answers and methods, but as individual “awareness” opportunities. Through a process of intense experiential learning and deep reflection, we encourage participants to think, learn, and act on their own. We support the growth of strong leaders at all levels and generations, from newcomers to executives.
We encourage individual growth, and at times, action learning with members that transcends divisional and corporate boundaries to practice realistic collaboration and co-creation, leading to management transformation and business creation.
Our Presence
Our Services
Next Generation Management Human Resource Development Program
We provide practical human resource development and assessment for the next generation of management candidates dealing with real management issues and strategic themes. We can also provide programs for the next generation and screening of promising human resources.
Transformational Leader Development Program
The program includes team building and other elements to develop human resources who can create real change in the current business. The point is to go beyond desk plans and take action. Experienced coaches support both business and personal change actions.
Global Human Resource Development Program
Developing leaders who can co-create business in a field beyond the framework of Japan. Through cross-cultural adaptability and exposure to global innovation they will grow into human resources capable of creating businesses without being bound by conventional wisdom.
Innovative Human Resource Development Workshop
Through business and leadership exploration with young leaders of the same generation from other industries and companies we develop leaders who can lead the era of open innovation.
Purpose Formulation and Penetration Workshop
Putting into writing the often-overlooked essential values of a company (social value and provided value) and generating understanding and engagement among internal and external stakeholders.
Future Center Academy Program
In addition to coaching by premium coaches with extensive business experience, the program includes group workshops with other trainees and entrepreneurs that accelerate the effectiveness of the coaching, and an Academy program to supplement and acquire necessary skills.
Group Company
IWNC
Inspiring People to Lead Change, IWNC, a professional leadership-building partner that has been helping people and organizations for more than 30 years.
Our Experts
We create something of value to society.
Hitoshi Funahashi
ICMG Group President, Founder and Group CEO
Chairman, Management and Intellectual Assets Subcommittee, Industrial Structure Council/New Growth Policy Subcommittee, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Vice Chairman, New Business Creation Committee, Economics and Finance Association ('08), Vice Chairman, Executive Officer, Central SME Activation Committee ('09/'10)
Senior Managing Director, Japan Innovation Network
MBA, Waseda University Graduate School, Ph.
Founder and President of ICMG Co. He has worked in a general trading company in the development and export of chemical products for overseas markets and handling national bidding projects, until he joined Recruit Co. Ltd. in 1987. After working in the Human Resources General Service Division and the New Business Development Office, he founded the Business Incubation Division in 1996. He then launched the magazine "Entre" and provided a variety of services including "magazine," "internet," "events," and "individual consulting" as support services for venture companies. In 2000, he founded Accel, Inc. as a successor to the business support project.In 2001, the company partnered with Intellectual Capital AB, a Swedish intellectual capital rating company, to license and develop a Japanese version of IC Rating®, a method for evaluating the actual value of a company that cannot be shown on its balance sheet. In 2003, he took a stake in the company, and in 2010, he made it a subsidiary. Today, ICMG is an advocate of intellectual capitalism that ensures fair and appropriate profits for corporate stakeholders, including management, employees, business partners, customers, and shareholders, and conducts research and practice of ICMG's unique "Intellectual Capital Management" method.
We will develop leaders who combine strength and goodness, and win with people on the world stage.
Yosuke Yagi
Director, ICMG Group CPO
Chairman Emeritus, IWNC Board of Directors
MIT Sloan School Master of Science
B.A. in Economics, Kyoto University
Co-author of several works, including "The Vision of Strategic HR: Don't Be Bound by Systems, Tell a Story" (published by Kodansha Shinsho).
He joined GE in 1999 and held various HR positions at Healthcare Asia, Money Asia, and GE Japan. In 2012, he was appointed Executive Vice President of LIXIL Corporation and Executive Vice President of LIXIL Corporation.He served as the company's CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer) and implemented the company's transformation. He promoted strategic human resources, including globalization, leadership development, and promotion of diversity.
We will mark our breath with Astronauts landing on Mars.
Hirohisa Ishikawa
Vice President, Representative Executive Officer, ICMG Group, Head of Human Capital and Leadership Division
Representative Director, IWNC
Vice President and Representative Director, ICMG
Kent University Economics and Finance
Completed MBA
After studying in Europe, joined IWNC in 1995, inspired by the vision of founder Antony. He then became the representative of the Japanese branch in 1999, and by 2007, expanded operations throughout Asia, becoming the group's managing director. In the 2000s, supported numerous executives who led the domestic IPO trend.Subsequently, he developed a formula for global success for business leaders based on his extensive experience in long-term organizational development for Western companies.More recently, he has sought teachings from elders of indigenous tribes worldwide, exploring the creation of highly sustainable organizations and more fundamental leadership in an era of high uncertainty.
Ignite the potential of human capital (people) and increase the number of leaders who are forward-looking for the future In the WillPower Forest, “That's interesting” is the driving force that gets interesting things moving here and there with interesting colleagues.
Susumu Murakami
Executive Director, ICMG Group Leadership/Human Capital Management
IWNC Executive Officer and Evangelist
B.A. in International Relations, University of Tsukuba
Completed the Strategic Management Design Human Resource Development School (STRAMD), Kuwasawa Design Institute
Formerly worked for a major airline company and two consulting firms before assuming his current position. His areas of expertise include hands-on business and management reform implementation support, B to B sales reform, business reform utilizing client companies' intellectual capital, and leadership development for executives. His experience includes sales reform support for a major IT company and a megabank, new business planning support for a major stationery manufacturer, business reform support for a major housing equipment manufacturer, and executive management development programs for major companies.
Filling Society with the Value Creation from Intellectual Capital.
Daisuke Touchi
Executive Director, Intellectual Capital Management ICM, ICMG Group
Head of Intellectual Capital Management
B.A. in Economics, Keio University
After working for an advertising company, he joined ICMG. Based on the global standard methodology of value creation, he accompanies and supports companies in implementing intellectual capital management.He leads the execution of leadership development for the next generation of executives and others, the visualization of intellectual capital, and the formulation of the Purpose Vision.
Creating a society in which each and every one of us can fulfill our potential.
Takehiko Ogi
External Director of ICMG
Professor, Kyushu University Business School
Author of "The Law of Decline: The Silent Killer Eroding Japanese Companies" (Toyo Keizai Inc.) Having graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law, he holds a B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of International Relations, Princeton University, N.J., and an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, D. (Economics), Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
He has served in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), as the President and Representative Director of Tsutaya Online, Representative Director and Managing Director of Culture Convenience Club, President and Representative Executive Officer of Kanebo (seconded from the Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan), President and Representative Director of Maruzen (now Maruzen CHI Holdings),and President and Representative Director of Japan Human Resources Development Organization. He has always been involved in the forefront of corporate and social reform.
Saya Iwasaki
Director of Design Anthropology & Culture
Born in America, raised Japanese in Africa and Southeast Asia, and nurtured her career in APAC and Silicon Valley. She specializes in designing organizations, services and experiences that are rooted in deep research, operational excellence and a culture of innovation and learning. She served as the Head of People for OpenSea (a top web3 unicorn) and has a proven track record of expanding DoorDash (a Series C to IPO decacorn) from 800 to 15,000 employees globally. In addition, she’s supported large-scale M&As, coaching and leading C-Suite executives on strategic management, designing best-in-class cultures, and establishing operational and organizational systems that optimize for results. Her practice is rooted in human-centered research & design and educational innovation, an area of expertise from completing her Master's at Stanford University and consulting for Fortune 100 companies, including NASDAQ. She is continuously in pursuit of solutions that address challenges at their root. When taking a break from solving big problems, she creates children’s storybooks and enjoys searching for the best strawberry shortcake in town. She is based in Tokyo with her family.
Anthony Willoughby
ICMG Executive Advisor
Founder of The Nomadic School of Business
Founder of IWNC
In Search of Inspiration, Author
Leadership and coaching expert
Founder of IWNC. During an expedition in Papua New Guinea, a team that was united to accomplish a goal was demoralized by the complaint of a single member. He launched team building techniques and leadership development programs based on the concept of “I Will Not Complain” in Japan in 1989 and in China in 1992. After more than 10 years of dialogue with tribal chiefs in Papua New Guinea and Kenya, he developed a visualization process called “Territory Mapping,” which visualizes where you are and where you are going, giving you a creative and new perspective that is not bound by preconceived ideas.
Pursuing a world where “live as you are” is sparked by interaction.
Hriokazu Tanaka
Leadership/Human Capital Management Promotion Executive Officer
Executive Officer, IWNC
Former General Manager of Human Resources Department, General Manager of Corporate Planning Department, and General Manager of Business Department, Tokyo Individualized Educational Institute, Inc.
In his 20s, he joined an educational venture and was in charge of human resource development during its growth from IPO to the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. With the aspiration of “changing education in Japan,” he served as the general manager of the Corporate Planning Department and then as the general manager of the Business Department. After joining the Benesse Group, he felt the importance of leaders, and joined IWNC, with whom he had formed a partnership during his time in human capital development. He mainly participates in the Next Generation Management Program, and has been supporting about 1,000 next-generation leaders per year by utilizing his coaching skills since 2010. He has been in his current position since 2024, promoting leadership support utilizing the resources of the entire ICMG group.
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