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Hiro Takeda

Hiro Takeda specializes in executive coaching and organizational development, offering services in leadership development and culture transformation. He is an ICF-certified coach and has extensive experience in talent management consulting.

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Expertise

30+ years
experience

ICF Certified Coach

Assessment-Accredited Coach

Immunity-to-Change Certified Coach

Experience and background

Hiro Takeda focuses on executive coaching, leadership development and organisational development practices. He is a certified coach for ICF, International Coach Federation, Immunity-to-Change coach by Robert Kegan of Harvard, and Gallup’s certified strength coach. He provides wide range of services for talent development including executive coaching, culture transformation, team coaching, and developing and facilitating leadership development programs.

Since he became independent in 2016, he was engaged as a Senior Advisor for Gallup providing a range of talent management services in hiring, strength-based talent development, and employee engagement.  He was also a Consultant for Walking the Talk, providing culture transformation consulting services. Hiro serves as a visiting lecturer at Globis Management School, a Japanese independent business school, being in charge of leadership and organisational culture for their executive management program.

He also serves as a Board Director for Japan Positive Psychology Association which is the NPO in Japan representing International Positive Psychology Association.

For 16 years until 2016. Hiro worked for Egon Zehnder, a leading global firm for executive level talent management consulting including executive coaching, executive assessment, and executive search. He was a partner and the leader of Industrial Practice Group in Japan. He possesses broad expertise in the recruitment, assessment and development of executives/managers in a wide range of industries.

Qualifications and memberships

  • MSc, Management/Sloan Masters Fellow, London Business School
  • BSc, Aviation Business Administration, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida
  • Civil Aviation College, Ministry of Transport, Japan
  • ICF certified coach
  • Gallup certified Strength coach
  • Immunity-to-Change certified coach
  • Designing your Life certified facilitator.

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