Executive Coaching and Facilitation
Since 2005, I have worked in corporate training, coaching, facilitation. Based in Tokyo I have delivered in Japan, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore and with multiple nationalities.
I have coached hundreds of teams and individuals play at the next level and to experience their work-life more fully and positively; delivering not only on profession goals and KPIs but aligning with their personal vision and lives.
Supporting individual Executive Coaching, Systems Coaching for groups and Team Facilitation, and public speaking. After starting as a freelance consultant, becoming a senior consultant I was invited to join the business as the Learning and Development Coordinator, where I was part of a diverse team of internal staff and a freelance consultants, serving multiple companies based in Japan; both Japanese domestic and international corporations.
How I can help your people:
1:1 Executive Coaching 6-12 month engagements
Your people may need help and coaching is an excellent way to explore ways to support and enhance your talent’s experience through:
Science - Consensus-Reality driven inquiry - what is their contract, what are the KPIs, the organisational structure, report-lines, skills required, psychometric assessments for improved, quantifiable self-awareness and knowledge, 360 for system information
Psychology - Mindset, dealing with difficult team members, imposter feelings, pre-empting burnout, performance, tools and techniques, enahcing skills and experiences at work through working to preferences and working to enhance low-skill and preference areas, enhanced communication
Spirit - how you feel at work, increasing enjoyment, finding places where one’s spirit can be lifted in order to better fulfil personal and organisational needs, building practices that can enhance a healthy spirit inside oneself and among colleagues
Long-term executive support to your key talent - bring them success in all areas of life and work.
Journey Programmes
Fully tailored 3, 6 or 12 month programmes for teams, High-Potentials or leaders, delivering sustainable expert content, 1:1 Executive Coaching, Guest Speakers and Facilitators, Systems Coaching, Presentations, Projects, Psychometrics, Workplace Competency Assessments, 360 Assessments, Off-sites (or retreat-style elements), Sustainable Lifestyle elements
Workshops
Shorter-term propositions for higher performance, open dialogue, Systems Coaching™, Psychometric elements, Storytelling, Team Build, Team Formation, Cross-functional, Cross-cultural, Cross-market elements.
Although in the UK I had worked in management in the beverage and telecoms industries, this is where I really cut my teeth in the corporate world and learned the patterns, politics and organisational complexity and challenges of corporate life. I listened to hundreds of reports, presentations; delivered numerous workshops on Mindmapping™, having influence and impact in international situations, effectively communicating in diverse groups, inclusion and leading in increasingly diverse global and regional teams, using technology to your advantage and a multitude of managerial skills. I traveled the country, visiting local offices, and learning the nuances of corporate culture from hundreds of different angles.
It’s also where I was introduced to and became focussed on coaching.
We weathered the 2008/9 financial crisis, the 2011 Great Eastern Earthquake and aftermath and the resulting business crises. I listened to hundreds of monthly, quarterly and yearly business plans and updates, and attended regional teleconferences and meetings supporting the clients in representing their business. This was a time of crisis-mode, innovation, shutdown, restructure and fast-response.
Our corporate training company laid off all of our external consulting staff following the Global Financial Crisis, loss of a key client and a devastating reduction in training budget for another. At that time we not only had to meet the internal changes and restructure but also coach and consult our clients as they weathered restructure, changing workloads, and increased uncertainty. These are experiences I bring to the table in coaching.
Never before had modern corporations felt the effects of VUCA so keenly.
Volatility
Uncertainty
Complexity
Ambiguity
Now we enter the age of BANI - meeting change and unknowns, understanding our systems and leveraging strengths has never been more timely.
Brittle
Anxious
Non-linear
Incomprehensible
In 2012, I left that full time role and started Sarah Furuya Coaching.
Since then, I have specialised in no-nonsense, straightforward executive and private coaching, and facilitation. I was senior consultant for a Talent Development Agency 2013-2019, designing and developing workshops, inclusion programmes, 3-month, 6-month and 1-year journey programmes for both open entry and in-house applicants. I was one the first executive coaches on a manufacturing company’s inaugural coaching programme and designed the first women’s leadership programme for a sports company as well as 1:1 coaching their international leadership hires.
We have private clients around the globe
from all walks of life and life-stages, whom I take on referral, invitation and recommendation. I move between executive, business and personal coaching depending on the need - I find this approach extremely useful to work with the whole person and design and tailor their career goals from there, so they can flourish in both work and life and in their relationship systems. I call people to the highest possible version of themselves and the highest levels of contribution. I call them to look after themselves and to consider the systems that are assembled around them, how they can influence, contribute and how they are influenced and what contributes to their success or limits.
WE work closely with HR and programme sponsors
For ten years SFC has been working with a high-performing administraion management team, who will ensure all the scheduleing, admin, contracting and compliance is in order. We are very proud of the level of administration quality we provide, so that our coaching can be focussed not distracted. (Delegation is one of the most critical skills for executive clients as they move around the organisation. We walk our delegation talk at SFC)
To ensure that both business and individual needs are being met and stay close to the corporate sponsors throughout, ensuring that needs are being met. Especially in this fast-paced, ever-changing world. COVID-19 has been an especially interesting challenge part-way through a one-journey programme with face to face workshop elements. I and my collaborators had to swiftly develop high competence to run workshops via video technology and blend face to face with virtual delivery.
It’s been fun and interesting to collaborate with guest facilitators to design an experience that feels connected while we deliver online AND sit 2-metre distance in session, when we can. An innovation Bootcamp for coaching and facilitating.
Roles worked with: President, CEO, CMO, C-suite, VP, General Manager, Senior Manager, Manager, New Hire, Mid-career, Director, Board member, Late-stage career, Leadership team, Business Owner, Entrepreneur, Individual Contributor, Subsidiary head, Hi-Potential, Career Transition, Diplomat
Sample of Clients: Microsoft, Cisco, Nissan (Global HQ and Technology Centre), Kirin, Goldman Sachs, Adidas, Nikko, Nomura Research Institute, Salesforce, L’Oreal, Unilever, Starbucks, UBS, Blackrock, Novartis, Daichi Sankyo, Takeda, PMJ, JTI, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mistui Co., SwissRe, Faurecia, Aston Martin, British Embassy Tokyo
Certifications: Trained ORSC™ Relationship Systems Coach CRR Global, Lumina Spark ™ Psychometric, Saville Wave™ Workplace Competency Psychometric, BSc hons Human Psychology and Human Biology
Memberships: Entrepreneur member British Chamber of Commerce in Japan (British Business Awards finalist; 2019 Social Impact, 2021 Entrepreneur of the year, 2022 DEI), FEW Japan leadership consultant, Refugee Empowerment International Board of Directors 2019-present, BCCJ Executive Committee 2021-2022
Speaker/Contributor: BBC World News Business Matters; female inclusion in Japan, British Chamber of Commerce Acumen Magazine; The Future of HR, Women’s International Conference; The Future of Work in a VUCA World, President FEW Japan, professional networking organisation 2011-2013, Keynote speaker, MC and workshop lead FEW Career Strategies Seminar 2010, 12, 14, 16, 18, Japan Times; Eating Disorder and Body Image in the time of COVID; The Year of the Dog; Tokyo Residents Profile.
Celebrating the British Chamber of Commerce British Business Awards with clients