Tomoko
Tanaka
Senior Executive Coach
Tokyo, Japan
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🇯🇵Japanese
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🇺🇸English
Coaching Experience
- MCC, ICF (2025)
- Certified Coaching Supervisor, Coaching Supervision Academy (2025)
- Hogan Practitioner (2023)
Professional background
- Vice President, International Coaching Federation, Japan Chapter (2013-2023)
- Lecturer, Ibaraki University and Graduate School since 2006
- Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs, Japan
Education
- New York University, S.C.I.C.
- Seisen University, BA
Personal commitments
- Volunteer Director of ICF Japan since 2008
Tomoko is a trusted sparring partner who helps individuals and teams unlock, maximize or transform their potential. Adapting to each context, she turns challenges into opportunities for growth and fulfillment, supporting clients every step of the way.
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Tomoko Tanaka
Professional background
Tomoko has over 20 years of experience working with senior leaders and C-suite executives in Japan and global organizations, including executives from Fortune 500 companies. Before focusing on coaching, she worked at leading global investment banks and a major Japanese trading company, where she experienced firsthand the importance of people collaborating meaningfully in multicultural and multinational environments. She has also taught global communication at a Japanese national university for 16 years, sharing her expertise in cross-cultural leadership with students. Since transitioning to coaching, her work has included executive coaching for CEOs and board members, leadership team alignment, and the design and delivery of development initiatives using 360-degree feedback and other diagnostic tools.
Coaching expertise
Tomoko’s coaching style is as a trusted partner, strategic and co-creative. She supports leaders in transformational periods to step beyond current challenges and reach the next stage of impact. Through reflective practice, she helps clients ignite new approaches and ideas, expand their perspective and influence, navigate complexity, and drive sustainable organizational change. She is proficient in applying a wide range of leadership and development tools. She is also an experienced team coach to help executive management teams to lead change and achieve lasting results in their organizations.
What we say about Tomoko Tanaka at Turningpoint
Tomoko brings sunlight to people’s minds. Her smile and positive attitude energizes people around her.