Business Karaoke Podcast with Brittany Arthur

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Jared Campion. Jared is the founder of DreamDrive, a company based in Tokyo who are leading the way for people to experience Japan by camper van. Join Jared and I on this road trip as we explore how Jared's childhood passion of camping with his family evolved into a business which is now part of a movement that is challenging not only how we t...

Send us Fan Mail 今回のエピソードでは、保坂隆太さんが参加していただきました。 シアトルでデータおよびマーケティング分析分野のチームリードを10年務めた後で、隆太さんは日本に戻り、日本のスラロームの新しいマーケットを主導しています。 この会話では、隆太さんがクラウドキャピタルから東京への移行と彼の2つの理論について説明します。 デジタルトランスフォーメーションにはマインドセットのトランスフォーメーション...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we're joined by Ryuta Hosaka. After a decade in  Seattle leading teams in the data and marketing analytics space, Ryuta is back in Japan and leading the new market launch for Slalom in Japan. In this conversation Ryuta walks us through the transition from the Cloud Capital back to Tokyo and his two theories that; Digital Transformation is really a transformati...

Send us Fan Mail このエピソードで松永 エリックさんが参加していただきました。我々の一般社 団法人デジタル・イノベーションの活用でエリックさんと出会いました。 エリックさんは非常に非伝統的なプロファイルを持ってますが、さまざまな業界で成功を収めていました。現在エリックさんは大学教授だったり、プロフェッショナルミュージシャンだったり、コンサルティング会社最高顧問もやっています。この会話では、ビジネスにお...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Makoto Shibata. Shibata-san leads FINOLAB which was ranked in the top 10 innovation labs in APAC in 2020. The FINOLAB community consists of 50 startup members and 16 corporate members to stimulate innovation in Financial Technology in one of the most prominent international financial centers, the Otemachi area in Tokyo. I was keen to invite Shibata...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Makoto Shibata. Shibata-san leads FINOLAB which was ranked in the top 10 innovation labs in APAC in 2020. The FINOLAB community consists of 50 startup members and 16 corporate members to stimulate innovation in Financial Technology in one of the most prominent international financial centers, the Otemachi area in Tokyo. I was keen to invite Shibata...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Jason Ollison. In August of this year, Jason was quoted in an article from the Financial Times on a $6bn investment made by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway across Japan’s five biggest trading houses so I reach out to him to understand more. If there is another person as crazy about understanding the Japanese approach to international inves...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Nathan Paterson. Prior to his current role of Director at IDEO Tokyo, Nathan led the research and design team at Disney Interactive Labs in Los Angeles, crafting immersive experiences with emerging technologies for Disney Guests around the world. In addition to his corporate experience Nathan built a design studio in Tokyo and co-founded an online...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Ryan Hart. Ryan leads teams who are innovating at the intersection of experience design, brand, and digital for international markets at PwC in Tokyo. I first was introduced to Ryan when researching the business case behind Human Centered Design and found his work on the ROI of Design Thinking. It was by far, some of the most forward thought leader...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, John Kojiro Moriwaka, returns to share his insights of building  a new kind of innovation ecosystem in Japan; one where  Zebra Companies, Family Businesses & Start-Ups not only co-exist but thrive in the presence of one another. And really, who better to have share some insights than John-san who wears all 3 hats; leading his family-owned business Moriwaka Med...

Send us Fan Mail 日本でのDXを考えましたら、我々の次のゲスト、石川恵理香さんを考えないといけません。恵理香さんは16歳の時にアメリカで最初のハイテク企業を設立しました。 その時から、恵理香さんは世界最大のコンサルティング会社を代表したり、またはは50以上のDXプロジェクトをリードしたりしました。このエピソードでは何でデジタルトランスフォーメーションをする時に、デジタルとトランスフォーメーションも両方に優先...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we're joined by Jonathan Hiroshi Rossi. Jonathan is a co-founder and investor of cybersecurity & compliance awareness e-learning platform (Saya University). He is a trusted commentator and leads converassiotn around cybersecurity & compliance awareness through his serval shows  LLM Law Review, The Saya Awareness Show, Tokyo Summit series Jonathan share...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we explore the story behind the "Business Karaoke" name. We simple can't go on if we don't talk about it! So what are the parallels between innovation and Karaoke? What is it about a Karaoke box that can evoke the psychological safety for a Japanese team when their office can’t? Empathize with the stakeholder Show, don’t tell Radical collaborat...

Send us Fan Mail このエピソードで 森若 幸次郎(John Kojiro Moriwaka)さんに来ていただきました。森若さんは海外と日本を繋ぐイノベーションプロバイダーです。森若さんは、海外と日本を繋ぐエキスパートだけではなくて、スタートアップと伝統的な企業を繋ぐエキスパートです。この１時間で森若さんの信条である「Innovations for a healthier life」と日本の経済と社会についてすぐく重要な質問、我々はどうしたら、ファミリー...

Send us Fan Mail このエピソードでは、ロッシェル・カップさんが参加します。 ロッシェルさんは、多文化環境でのコミュニケーションと仕事上の関係を改善することにより、クライアントの収益性と従業員の関与を高めるために取り組んでいます。 ロッシェルさんは現在、効果的な人的資源管理の実践と組織開発を支援することにより、日本企業がグローバルな事業でより成功するのを支援することに焦点を当てています。 このエピソード...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Rochelle Kopp. Rochelle works to help clients increase profitability and employee engagement through improved communication and working relationships in multicultural environments. She is currently focused on helping Japanese companies be more successful in their global operations by supporting effective human resource management practices and orga...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Garr Reynolds. Garr is an internationally acclaimed communications consultant and the author of best-selling books including the award-winning Presentation Zen, Presentation Zen Design, and the Naked Presenter. Garr’s approach to communication takes the principles and lessons from simplicity and traditional arts in Japan to reveal clear, concrete t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are joined by Rieko Uesaki. Rieko has leveraged her superpower of empathy into building 2 complementary businesses. She the founder of both ISSHONI, a partner to eCommerce merchants from various businesses on how to succeed in Japan and Mindox, where in her role as the resident therapist and life coach, she provides a safe space and the clarity required for her...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we're joined by Tracey Northcott. Tracey is an Australian serial entrepreneur in Japan who created her successes in identifying and serving highly niche customers. She first came to Japan in the 90s to support her brother in building their software business which focused on solving problems related to the lack of multilingual mobile solutions and content. More...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we're joined by Esben Grøndal. Esben co-founded the Japanese subsidiary of Danish Healthcare and welfare agency Public Intelligence, where he is responsible for everything from generating sales to delivering service design and innovation consultancy between Denmark and Japan. Over the course of this hour Esben uses his service design lens to walk us through th...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Business Karaoke Podcast community. As you know, I do my absolute best to bring you the most innovative, impactful and all around good people from our very niche Japan-Global community and this episode is no different. We're lucky enough to be joined by, renowned marketer and communications coach, Anthony Griffin. Anthony founded Saga Consulting, a boutique agenc...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we're joined by Matthew Scott Waldman. Matthew is best known as the founder of NOOKA – the lifestyle design brand that bought the revolution of interface design to physical products and the founder of a “evolution by design” research lab at Keio University's Graduate School of Media Design.  This conversation with Matthew left me, as how all good innovati...

Send us Fan Mail Michael (Mike) Howard was a journalist-turned-businessman in Los Angeles before he joined the Tokyo salaryman brotherhood in 2008 where he now works full-time as a product manager at an American technology company. In this episode, we explore the stories and experiences behind Mike's book and now manga, The Salaryman, which is a humorous memoir from a Tokyo American who tried...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we're joined by Tomomi Hainu from Career Fly. Tomomi supports international women who, as the name suggests, are looking for their career to take off in Japan. In this episode we explore how she leads a business-based dialogue with C-level leadership on the benefits of diversity in their workplaces, as well as, share strategies for both, foreign talent and th...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we sit down with Evan Burkosky and take an anecdotal approach to exploring the evolution of e-Commerce and digital transformation in Japan. Evan is the Japan country manager for Dynamic Yield, where he channels 2 decades of e-commerce insights to improving the customer experience (CX) by digitalizing the internationally renowned customer service concept of Omotena...