[Seminar on Creating Organizations Where People Shine II] Presentation Announcement

On Sunday, June 28th, our CEO, Noriko Ishizaka, will be speaking at the “Practical Seminar on Creating an Organization Where People Shine II.”

Noriko Ishizaka was invited as a special lecturer for the second collaborative seminar held by Kanji Okubo and Noboru Takano in October last year. The title of this collaborative seminar is “Learning from the past and present of Ishizaka Industries → The future of companies and individuals.” Based on specific examples, the seminar aims to help participants find hints that will lead to the future of companies and individuals, ask themselves what they will do from tomorrow, and decide what to act on.

Although we are in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be holding the seminar both in person and online, taking measures such as ventilation, disinfection, and social distancing.

For more details about the seminar, please click here .

<Instructor profile>
* Mr. Okubo Kanji
was born in 1949. He graduated from the Faculty of Commerce, Yokohama City University. He joined IBM Japan in 1973 and was put in charge of the Business Reform Promotion Headquarters in 1992. In 1998, he became head of the Customer Service Department. He devoted himself to creating customer-focused systems and changing mindsets, transforming the nature of IBM Japan, which had 25,000 employees at the time.
He left in April 2000 and founded the People and Management Research Institute. He explores what people and management should be like.
He is well-known for his easy-to-understand explanations that take the other person’s perspective, and he is constantly requested to teach and give lectures.
His leadership training and organizational culture reform for managers and executives of large and small companies are highly regarded for his simple approach that gets to the heart of the matter.

*Takano Noboru
was born in Togakushi, Nagano City in 1953.
After graduating from Prince Hotel School (now Japan Hotel School), he moved to New York at the age of 21, where he worked at Hotel Kitano and the NY Statler Hilton before moving to his dream hotel, the NY Plaza Hotel, in 1982. He
then gained management experience at LA Bonaventure and SF Fairmont Hotel, before moving to Ritz-Carlton in 1990. He returned to Japan in 1994 as the Ritz-Carlton Japan branch manager. He supported the opening of the Osaka hotel in 1997 and the Tokyo hotel in 2007, and five and a half years after the Osaka hotel opened, it achieved the top spot as a luxury hotel in Japan.
In 2010, he founded the People and Hospitality Research Institute.
Drawing on lessons learned from Ritz-Carlton and other outstanding companies, he specializes in hospitality design, leadership, human resource development, organizational revitalization, and marketing, and holds training and seminars for a wide range of companies, from small and medium-sized enterprises to large corporations, and receives a constant stream of offers.