Kenichi Ohmae

Described as “Mr. Strategy” worldwide, Dr. Kenichi Ohmae is regularly sought out as a public speaker and management consultant. Ohmae, according to the Financial Times of London, is “Japan’s only  management guru.” In 1994, The Economist selected him as one of five management gurus in the world.  As an author, he has published over 230 books, many of which are devoted to business and socio-political analyses. He has also contributed numerous articles to major publications (e.g., Wall Street Journal,  Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, New York Times). The Mind of Strategist (McGraw-Hill), Triad  Power (Free Press), Beyond National Borders (Dow Jones Irwin), The Borderless World (Harper Business),  The End of the Nation State (Free Press), The Evolving Global Economy (editor, Harvard Business School  Press), and The Invisible Continent – Four Strategic Imperatives of New Economy (HarperCollins/Nicholas  Brealey Publishing), The Next Global Stage (Wharton School Publishing) are among the most popular of his books printed in English.

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For a period of twenty-three years, Dr. Ohmae was a partner in McKinsey & Company, Inc., the international management consulting firm. As a co-founder of its strategic management practice, he has served companies in a wide spectrum of industries, including industrial and consumer electronics, financial institutions, telecommunications, office equipment, photographic equipment, industrial machinery, food,  rubber, and chemicals. His special area of expertise is formulating creative strategies and developing organizational concepts to implement them both for private and public sectors. Some of Japan’s most famous and internationally successful companies continue to seek his help in shaping their competitive strategies. Likewise, his counsel is also much in demand among Asian, European and North  American-based multinational and governmental institutions. He has also played a vital role in assisting  Asian Governments to develop future oriented-regional strategies.

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 Dr. Kenichi Ohmae is the Founder of “Reform of Heisei”, a citizen’s socio-political movement established on November 25, 1992, to promote and catalyze the fundamental reform of Japan’s political and administrative systems. Dr. Ohmae is the founder of Aoba-BBT,Inc. (The company name changed from  Business Breakthrough, Inc. to Aoba-BBT, Inc. in October 2003). (an around-the-clock interactive satellite and internet-based television for business and management). He also is founder and Managing Director of the Ohmae & Associates and Dean of Attacker’s Business School focused on entrepreneurship. From  January 1997, he joined the UCLA School of Public Affairs as Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in 1997-1998.

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He is Chancellor of Kenichi Ohmae Graduate School of Business of BBT University established in April 2005,  and Business Breakthrough University which opened in April 2010, through a cyberspace platform classroom named Air Campus. He also serves as a Trustee and Professor of Bond University. In March  2004, he was appointed the Honorary Distinguished Professor of Graduate School of International Studies at 

Ewha Womans University in Korea, and in July 2004 the Honorary Visiting Professor of Korea University.  Dr. Ohmae attended Waseda University (BS), the Tokyo Institute of Technology (MS), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D. in nuclear engineering). Prior to joining McKinsey, he worked for Hitachi as a senior design engineer on Japan’s prototype fast breeder reactor. He received an honorary doctorate from Notre Dame University in 1995 and from BOND University in 2019.

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He now resides in Tokyo with his wife, Jeannette, and two sons, who share his spare-time interest in skiing, music, sailing, martial arts, motorcycles, and scuba diving.