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Concepts draws on a pool of diverse talents of the 10 associates with whom we regularly work; their skills range from video production
and graphic design to computer programming. Our two principal consultants
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Richard Naish MSc FCA designs serious learning games for organizations and trains senior managers in the private and public sector to be skilled mentors. He is a business psychologist with 20 years experience of people development and e-learning. |
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| He started his career as a Chartered
Accountant and held senior positions in training and development in
both the professional services and the television industries. His roles have included
Head of Management Development programmes for KPMG and Chief
Training Designer for the BBC distance-learning programme, Business
Account. Using his financial-
and people-based knowledge and skills, he helps clients become more successful by developing their people with high quality, rapid, cost-effective training solutions. |
| He is a learning architect who designs effective blended learning solutions, combining traditional learning methods as well as e-learning. He has designed a 2-hour e-learning programme for 140,000 members of a major professional institution and a 6-hour business simulation for 1000 interns in a Big Four Professional Services company. |
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| Richard is an EC-accredited expert on e-learning, co-founder, awards judge and regular columnist for e.learningage magazine http://www.elearningage.co.uk, e-learning content judge for Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards and mentors growing businesses as part of his role as an East Midlands Business Champion http://www.businesschampions.org.uk |
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Kiyoko Naish is
a Japanese cross-cultural consultant. Over the last 10 years, she has advised British companies wishing to export to Japan on cross-cultural and market research issues. She can also act as both a cross-cultural consultant and a Japanese language interpreter when British companies are visited by their Japanese business partners. She provides intensive language and cultural tuition for British executives before they visit Japan, often on a one-to-one basis for such clients as Toyota.
She has over 15 years experience in advertising and banking. She worked for the Goldman Sachs, US
investment bank, for 12 years where she was an executive
director in the Tokyo office with postings to New York, London and
Hong Kong. Kiyoko's various senior roles spanned both the operational
and client relationship management sides of the business. Her
management background includes leading teams of many different nationalities,
including people from Asia, Europe and the Americas. |
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| Her ability to speak fluent English and Japanese, combined with her deep appreciation of Eastern and Western management styles, is invaluable when advising British companies with Japanese connections. |
| She has helped a biochemical company,
in a joint venture with a Japanese company, appreciate
the cross-cultural issues they were facing, enabling them develop a solid and successful business relationship. She has also helped a
print company, a bed linen and an engineering company expand their business
into Japan by helping both sides understand each other better.. |
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| She co-ordinates Hitomikai, a cross-cultural support network in the Midlands for both Anglo-Japanese families and Japanese families posted to the UK. She is an active member of 85 Broad Street, an international network of professional women. She promotes Japanese culture and language to school children in the East Midlands through Japan 21, which is sponsored by the Japanese Embassy as well as Japanese companies in UK. She helps Japanese mothers teach English and culture to their children at home using her blog. |
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You are listening to Matsu No Midori, a piece
of shamisen music performed by Kiyoko Naish |
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