Yui Kakiuchi, Consultant
Born and raised in Japan, Yui Kakiuchi is a consultant, coach, and facilitator whose work sits at the intersection of organizational transformation, leadership development, and cross-cultural change. Her deep roots in Japanese culture — its values of integrity, diligence, and collective responsibility — inform how she partners with both Japanese and global clients as they navigate complex transitions.
Yui began her career at a human capital and organizational development consulting firm in Japan, partnering with multinational corporations on cross-cultural integration, management team alignment, and talent strategy. She then served as a Project Manager at a Japanese social enterprise, where she accompanied corporate professionals on cross-sector leadership immersions across Southeast Asia. Most recently, she led the establishment of an HR consulting practice in the United States before founding her independent practice.
With experience spanning Japan, Southeast Asia, and the United States, Yui brings a distinctly cross-cultural lens to her work. She specializes in supporting organizations undergoing mission-driven transformation and individuals — particularly Japanese professionals navigating leadership in global contexts — in finding their footing and leading with clarity at pivotal moments of change. She works in both Japanese and English.
Education and Certifications
- MA, Master of Economics, Kobe University Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies
- BA, French Studies, Sophia University
- ACC (Associate Certified Coach), International Coaching Federation (ICF)
- CPCC (Certified Professional Co-Active Coach), Co-Active Training Institute (CTI)
- Leadership Circle Practitioner (LCP), The Leadership Circle
- Search Inside Yourself (SIY), SIY Global (2023)
- ORSC (Organization & Relationship Systems Coaching), Fundamentals — CRR Global
- Positive Intelligence (PQ)
Additional Highlights
Yui’s coaching is rooted in a deeply held conviction: that crossing boundaries — between cultures, sectors, roles, and ways of seeing the world — is not merely a career event. It is one of the most generative and disorienting things a person can experience. And what happens on the inside of that crossing determines everything.
She has spent her career at exactly these edges: accompanying corporate professionals into mission-driven organizations across Southeast Asia, designing learning experiences that bring together people from radically different contexts, and coaching leaders who find themselves in between — between who they have been and who the situation is asking them to become. What she has seen, again and again, is that the external boundary is rarely the real one. The harder crossings are interior: the assumptions that no longer hold, the identity that doesn’t quite fit the new terrain, the quiet question of whether this is really the fullest expression of who I am.
Her approach is grounded in the Co-Active framework, integrated with mindfulness, emotional intelligence, systemic thinking, and organizational development methodology. In facilitation, she designs for learning leaps — creating conditions where insight becomes transferable and groups move from individual experience to shared understanding and action.
