For companies & teams

English and communication training for teams in Tokyo

Practical training for teams working across borders. Half-day and 2-hour workshops for companies in Japan — built around the situations your team actually faces, not a generic slide deck. In-person in Tokyo or online.

Formats & pricing

Two formats, one starting point.

2-hour session

from ¥80,000

A focused session on one topic — ideal for a lunch-and-learn, an offsite slot, or a first engagement with your team.

Half-day workshop

from ¥150,000

3–4 hours with exercises, roleplay, and application to your team's real situations. The recommended format when you want the change to stick.

Multi-session series and custom programs are quoted per engagement. Final pricing depends on group size, customization, and location.

Better English Communication Without Fluency

Communicate clearly at work — at the English level your team has today

Format: 2-hour session or half-day workshop
Who it's for: Teams who use English with overseas colleagues or clients, at any level
Language: English, with Japanese support where it helps
Delivery: In-person in Tokyo or online

Overview

Most teams assume better English communication means more fluency: more vocabulary, better grammar, perfect pronunciation. Those help, but they aren't what makes a meeting go well. This workshop focuses on the skills that make the biggest difference right now — listening for what matters, asking the right questions, keeping a conversation moving, and being clear even with simple English. Built around the meetings, calls, and messages your team actually handles.

What we cover

Listening for context
Catching the who, what, and why so you know where a conversation is going — instead of losing the thread and going quiet.
Asking without friction
Clarification questions and follow-ups that keep you in control of the conversation instead of falling behind it.
Keeping it alive
Natural reactions, default responses, and recovering gracefully when you've lost track of what's happening.
Being clear with simple English
Structure, key phrases, and confirmation habits that prevent misunderstandings before they cost you.
Conversations that continue
Follow-ups and relationship habits that make the next interaction easier — the skill of being remembered, not just understood.

Outcome

Your team leaves with practical tools they can use in the next meeting — and noticeably less freezing, stalling, or silence when English gets hard.

Working With International Teams, Clients & Stakeholders

Show up as a peer, not a guest

Format: 2-hour session or half-day workshop
Who it's for: Teams collaborating with overseas offices, partners, or clients
Language: English, with Japanese support where it helps
Delivery: In-person in Tokyo or online

Overview

For teams at globally-facing companies who want to feel like peers in international interactions, not guests. Where do Japanese and Western business communication actually diverge — and what do you do about it? This workshop is built around your team's real meetings, clients, and dynamics, and gives everyone a shared language for handling the friction points.

What we cover

Read the room
The social cues and unspoken rules of international interaction — when to speak, how directness reads, what silence signals.
Sound clear
Targeted expressions and delivery habits that reduce friction so ideas land the first time.
Navigate the culture gap
Where Japanese and Western business communication diverge — feedback, disagreement, hierarchy, email tone — and how to move between styles without losing yourself.
Follow-through that builds trust
Clear follow-up messages, async updates, and chasing or clarifying without sounding pushy or apologetic. Staying present when you're not in the room.

Outcome

A team that shows up to international meetings with more clarity and confidence, a better read on the dynamics in the room, and shared habits for working across the gap.

Modern Leadership

The MBA path — practical frameworks for leading people today

Format: 2-hour session or half-day workshop
Who it's for: New and experienced managers, team leads, and high-potential employees
Language: English, with Japanese support where it helps
Delivery: In-person in Tokyo or online

Overview

Most people become managers because they were good at the job, then learn to lead by trial and error. This workshop compresses that curve. Drawing on MBA frameworks and 12+ years of building and running teams, it covers the fundamentals of leading people well — setting direction, giving feedback, running useful 1:1s, and making decisions with incomplete information — and applies them to the situations your managers are facing now, including leading across cultures and in English.

What we cover

Leading vs. managing
What your team actually needs from you, and how that changes as you move up.
Direction and priorities
Frameworks for setting goals, saying no, and keeping a team focused when everything feels urgent.
Feedback and 1:1s
Giving clear, kind, and useful feedback across cultures and hierarchy — and running 1:1s people actually look forward to.
Decisions and judgment
Structured ways to decide with incomplete information, and how to communicate the reasoning so people come with you.
Leading internationally
Motivating and managing people whose expectations of a manager may be very different from yours.

Outcome

Managers leave with a shared set of frameworks, language, and habits for leading people — and a concrete plan for their own team, starting the following week.

Working With Technology in the Age of AI

Practical AI for the work your team actually does

Format: 2-hour session or half-day workshop
Who it's for: Teams and managers adopting AI tools in day-to-day work
Language: English, with Japanese support where it helps
Delivery: In-person in Tokyo or online

Overview

AI tools are now part of everyday work, and most teams use them inconsistently: a few enthusiasts, many skeptics, and no shared standard for what good use looks like. This workshop is hands-on and practical. We look at what AI genuinely changes for knowledge work, where it helps and where it misleads, and how to use it well for the tasks your team does every day — writing, summarizing, preparing for meetings, and communicating in English across cultures.

What we cover

What actually changes
A clear, hype-free picture of what current AI tools do well, do badly, and what that means for your team's work.
Hands-on with real tasks
Drafting, summarizing, translating, and preparing for meetings — using your team's own examples, not demos.
AI and English communication
Using AI to write and prepare in English without losing your voice — and knowing when not to trust it.
Judgment, quality, and risk
Verification habits, confidentiality, and the line between assistance and over-reliance.
Team norms
Agreeing on how your team will use AI — shared prompts, quality standards, and workflows that actually stick.

Outcome

A team with a realistic, shared understanding of AI at work, hands-on experience with their own tasks, and simple norms for using it well from Monday onward.

Something more custom?

Every workshop is adapted to your team. Some engagements need more.

If you need a multi-session program, a mix of topics, or broader people-development support — onboarding international hires, manager training, HR consultation — get in touch and we'll scope it together.

Take the next step

Let's see if this is a fit.

Start with a free 30-minute discovery call, or send a note if you have questions first.

Book a discovery call

A free 30-minute conversation to understand where you are and see if this is a good fit.

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Send a note — happy to answer any questions and help you think things through.