Background

Chad is an Associate Director in charge of global talent management and organizational development at Astellas Pharma, Inc. He also serves as Project Director for the NPO Abound and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee Co-chair for the American Chamber of Commerce Japan (ACCJ). Chad is a co-Founder of Interkannections and co-created the Leading Evolutionary Change program. He has formerly served as a Principal of Interkannections in Japan, Co-Director of Integral Japan, and Assessments Director for the Intercultural Communication Institute following 10 years with Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation. He has led change management, leadership pipeline, and organizational evolution projects with global corporations, SMEs, local governments, NPOs and the UNCRD since 1995. Chad has also served as a Global Executive Coach and has lectured at the Hitotsubashi and Kyoto University MBA Schools.

Projects and Results include:

• Bottom Line Productivity Improvement: Worked with a management team to completely remove a planned overseas cost center and redesign the existing organization around customer satisfaction resulting in a cost savings of millions of euros and profitability increases in the hundreds of millions of yen
• Change Management: Guided a leadership team through a process of vision, mission & strategy clarification and linked the results to clear projects, business scorecards and behavior evolution that allowed the organization to dramatically outperform prior revenue generation
• Global Project Management: Retrained project managers to become global project managers (following a global merger) creating a change from constant fighting to collaboration, systems and processes integration, and cost reduction
• Leadership Pipeline: Installed a leadership pipeline and internal “leadership university” in an acquired firm with “no leadership” resulting in pipeline members matching or exceeding the leadership standards of the owner company within three years
• Leadership University: Created and installed a “leadership university” (complete with internal trainers system) in a organization that allowed it to develop leaders who are producing results equal to its global partner organization
• M&A Integration: Supported a three-party international merger resulting in a reported dramatic increase in “buy-in,” communication, collaboration, performance improvement and stress reduction
• Organizational Culture Transformation: Guiding the transformation of an R&D culture in a major automotive manufacturer from an “I” center to a “T” center resulting in significant product improvement, cost advantages, leadership and decision-making enhancement and global coordination ability
• Value Chain Integration: Designed a local multicultural organization for a foreign entity with the result that it went on to outperform most of its sister organizations in Asia, Europe and North America

Education

• M.A. in Intercultural Relations from the Intercultural Communication Institute in Portland Oregon
• Licensed CCFT, Interkannections
• Certified: Global Competencies Inventory
• Certified: Leadership Development Framework and Profile (currently training to become a certified MAP scorer)
• Certified: Spiral Dynamics integral (SDi) Level 1 and Level 2 (Natural Designs, Personal Emergence, Applications)
• Certified: Cultural Training Tools (Level 1)
• Certified: Negotiations for Strategic Success
• Certified: Negotiating Intercultural Conflict
• Certified: Global Executive Coaching
• Certified: Advanced Intercultural Training

Languages

English (native), Japanese (business).

Personal Development

Chad’s second vocation is spending time with his wife, daughter, son, and two ferrets (and therefore learning to practice what he preaches around leadership, adaptive change, communication, stakeholder engagement and community-building). He also enjoys meditation, reading, weight-training, and running.

Personal Mission

Catalyzing the creation of “abundant” families, organizations, cities and other communities. "Abundance" means changing from a "scarcity" approach where we cannibalize each other and the planet we and our children depend on, to an "abundance" approach where we create Prosperity, develop People and improve their quality of life, and improve the quality of the natural and built Place in which each of us lives and works through a clear and executed Purpose and Principles of action using an “abundance toolkit.”