Hiro Takeda

Hiro Takeda focuses on executive coaching, leadership development and organizational development practices. He is a certified coach for ICF, International Coaching 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 took a number of roles regarding leadership development/organizational development. These include Senior Affiliate of Aberkyn, a McKinsey company focusing on leadership development and transformation, where he works for their client work in the areas of executive coaching and facilitation of leadership workshop, and Senior Advisor for Gallup which provides wide range of talent management services in the area of hiring, strength-based talent development, and employee engagement.

For 16 years until 2016. Hiro worked for Egon Zehnder, which is 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.

Hiro is fluent in both Japanese (native) and English.