Who I am
I lead agile functions. I don’t just coach teams. Seven years into a management and coaching career, I operate at the intersection of organizational design, delivery intelligence, and human system health. I manage departments, advise executive leadership, and build frameworks that outlast any single coach’s tenure. My current role spans a global organization of approximately 700 people across domestic and European operations, with full ownership of departmental budget, headcount, and strategic direction.
What Shaped Me
I was born in Japan and raised between two worlds. My mother, a first-generation American, made sure I never lost the thread of where I came from, including the legacy of a great-grandfather who was a samurai. That lineage isn’t decorative context. Bushido is a practice of disciplined refinement, integrity under pressure, and continuous mastery. It shaped how I lead before I had language for it.
The punk rock scene I grew up in after moving to Chicago added the other half. DIY mentality, rejection of orthodoxy, moving without waiting for permission. The two influences sound like a contradiction. They aren’t. One teaches you to refine relentlessly. The other teaches you to question everything while you do it.
What I didn’t realize until I found agile was that I’d been living these values my entire life. Hansei. Kaizen. Kanban. Gemba. These aren’t borrowed metaphors for me. They’re inherited ones. The agile framework didn’t teach me these concepts. It gave me the professional vocabulary for something already in my bones.
How I Work
Hansei, deep reflection, is not a team-level practice for me. It scales. I apply it to organizational structures, delivery systems, executive behaviors, and my own practice. Every engagement I run is grounded in data, evaluated against outcomes, and designed to be disengaged from deliberately when the work is done.
The methodology I’ve built my practice around is enrollment over informing. Change efforts fail not because of the framework but because of how they’re introduced. I don’t tell organizations what to think. I design the conditions under which they arrive there themselves. That distinction is the difference between compliance and commitment.
What I’ve Built
My career began in UX architecture, front-end and full-stack development, where I practiced scrum from the inside as both a contributor and scrum master. That foundation, knowing what it feels like to be on the receiving end of coaching, informs everything I do. I transitioned into agile coaching and management in 2018 at a behavioral assessment and organizational consulting firm, and have spent the seven years since building coaching functions at increasing scale.
That work has included expanding agile practice into new business verticals, validating high-risk structural decisions with empirical team health data, leading merger and acquisition integrations at VP request, and building what I believe is one of the first AI-augmented Coaching-as-a-Product stacks in the industry. I currently lead the transformation of the coaching function itself, redefining what organizational agility means when the enterprise operates on agentic AI.
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