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Revisit the assumptions behind “I have to”
We examine which expectations and role assumptions are creating the feeling that you must act in a certain way.
- Are you over-responding to expectations?
- What are you afraid of losing?
Coaching for Global Professionals
Is your overseas experience truly connected to your future?
Coaching to revisit what you want to realize and how you want to lead, without relying only on current responsibilities or the expectations around you.
Start a conversationProblem
When you take responsibility overseas or become involved in global business, the number of people and assumptions you must take into account increases.
Headquarters, local members, managers, colleagues, customers, partner companies, and family each bring different positions, assumptions, interests, and time horizons.
Language, culture, business practices, legal systems, labor conditions, and market environments add further complexity. The same decision often cannot be carried out in the same way as it would be in Japan.
The difficulty lies in standing between different positions and assumptions, and continuing to make decisions without a single correct answer.
Issue
Working overseas can bring a real sense of purpose. You stand between headquarters and local realities, make decisions across cultures, and move things forward with limited information. Because it is difficult, it can also bring growth and fulfillment.
At the same time, overseas work creates more things that feel as though they must be done.
Each responsibility matters. Yet as you continue responding to them, there is less time to reconsider what you want to realize and what role you want to play.
What We Do
Coaching goes beyond organizing the concerns in front of you. It creates distance from the roles expected of you and your current evaluation, so that you can revisit what you want to realize.
Using concrete experiences from the past and present, we identify the assumptions behind the feeling that you must act in a certain way, and separate external demands from what you genuinely want.
From there, you imagine the future you want without being constrained by your current role or evaluation, and translate it into daily decisions, conversations, and actions.
We examine which expectations and role assumptions are creating the feeling that you must act in a certain way.
Beyond your title or job description, we revisit what you see, how you judge, and what value you create.
We look beyond temporary preferences and immediate options to find what has repeatedly moved you across your experiences and choices.
Rather than relying only on your current position, evaluation, or others’ expectations, we clarify the future you want to realize and the role you want to play there.
Using that future as a reference point, we clarify what to choose, what to let go of, and which decisions or conversations to change first.
Changing action can bring anxiety and old assumptions to the surface. We work with them so that you can move forward while trusting your own judgment.
Outcomes
The aim is not to eliminate uncertainty itself.
When you know what matters and where you are heading, you have a standard to return to when uncertainty arises. Rather than being carried by others’ expectations, what to take on and how to act in your current role become clearer.
Turn your time overseas
into time chosen with intention.
Experience
Overseas Business Experience×Overseas HR & Organization Support×Coaching
The uncertainty that arises while working overseas cannot be explained by personal effort or personality alone.
Makoto has also gone through trial and error as an overseas leader in making decisions and engaging with local members. This allows him to understand the concerns of people carrying responsibility overseas not as an abstract theory, but from a position he has experienced himself.
Makoto twice served as the head of an overseas entity, taking responsibility for company establishment, business launch, and organizational growth. He made decisions while standing between headquarters, local members, customers, and partner companies.
He has supported Japanese companies across Southeast Asia in HR system design, talent development, management, and organization development, working with both management and frontline realities.
Drawing on coaching informed by cognitive science, he supports dialogue around roles, careers, and leadership. He works with each person’s questions while understanding the realities of overseas business and organizations.
About the Coach
Makoto Yagenji八源寺 誠
Professional Coach
Cross-Border HR & Organization Consultant
Makoto supports people and organizations working across borders through overseas business experience, HR and organization consulting, and coaching.
He has worked mainly in Shanghai, China and Bangkok, Thailand, engaging in overseas business development, local company start-up, multiple business launches and multinational organization management. In Thailand, he led a local entity from company establishment through the launch and growth of multiple businesses.
He has also supported Japanese companies in ASEAN through HR system design, global talent development and management support, and has spoken in many seminars on overseas management and organization building.
For Whom
Coaching for people who want to connect their overseas role and experience to what comes next through their own intentions.
For those who do not want current roles or evaluations alone to decide the future, but want to consider today’s choices from the direction they want.
For those who want to separate what headquarters, local operations, or their position requires from their own intentions.
For those who want to revisit how they judge, communicate, carry responsibility, and engage with a business or organization.
For those who do not want to leave unspoken doubts or discomfort behind, but want to consider what to take on and what to step back from.
For those who want to notice thoughts such as “I must do this” or “This is as far as I can go,” and broaden the way they see the situation.
For those who want to connect overseas experience to their future role and way of living, rather than leave it only as career history.
FAQ
The first conversation is free. In an online conversation of around 30 to 60 minutes, we will listen to what you are experiencing in your current role and any questions or discomfort related to your work or career.
As we listen, we will confirm together whether your current theme is suitable for coaching and what question may be a useful place to begin.
There is no expectation that you will begin coaching. Please use this as a time for mutual understanding.
Yes.
When you are involved in global business or local organizations, you may not have a clear problem, but still feel that something does not fit or that the current path may not be enough.
We can begin from questions or discomfort that are not yet fully in words, and organize your way of being, role, and direction ahead together.
Consulting provides professional advice or solutions for a specific issue. Career advice is closer to support for organizing your past experience, available options, and future path.
In coaching sessions, we do not provide answers or correct solutions from the outside. Through dialogue, we clarify your way of being, the role you want to play, and the direction ahead, so that you can choose your daily judgments and actions for yourself.
At the same time, the first conversation does not require you to decide in advance that coaching is what you need. As we listen to your situation around global business, overseas HR and organization, or overseas career, we will organize together whether your current theme is suitable for coaching or whether another form of conversation may be more appropriate.
Yes.
Coaching is not a space where the coach simply gives answers. It is a space for you to face your own goals, assumptions, judgments, and actions.
If you mainly want someone to give you the correct answer, if you do not want to change the current situation, or if you want only the people around you to change, another form of support may be more suitable.
In the first conversation, we will listen to your situation and honestly confirm whether coaching is suitable for you.
Many people begin with three months. The duration and approach are designed individually according to each person’s situation and theme, while one session per month is the standard rhythm.
Yes. While this coaching primarily serves people working overseas or involved in global business, overseas experience is not a requirement. You are welcome to consult us if you want to revisit your role, career, way of being as a leader, or your own standards of judgment.
For Organizations
We also welcome inquiries from companies and organizations that would like to introduce 1on1 coaching for expatriates, overseas leaders, future assignees, and global business professionals.
Depending on the target group and purpose, programs can be designed around 1on1 coaching and, when helpful, combined with training or workshops.
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You do not need to have decided whether coaching is right for you.
Even if what you are experiencing while working overseas or your future career questions are not yet fully clear, you are welcome to share them.
In the first conversation, we will listen to your current situation and explore together what themes can be addressed through coaching.