Yoichi, a native of Japan, specializes in globalizing training and development programs across cultures, facilitating communication and teambuilding workshops and developing organizational cultures.

With his 20 years of career as an instructional designer and trainer of communication skills training for business professionals, he has designed, developed and delivered business communication skills training programs such as negotiation and business presentation in the US, Japan, the Philippines and India. At Fuji Xerox in Japan, for example, he developed and delivered Negotiating with North Americans for Japanese clients whereas he delivered a number of Negotiating with Japanese workshops for clients such as Motorola in the US. Furthermore, for Procter & Gamble Asia Pacific employees, he designed, developed and delivered Negotiating Across Cultures, Conflict Resolution and Business Presentation workshops.

Yoichi has a Master’s degree in speech communication and has taken online courses on Web design and Internet-based instruction to meet increasing needs to assist clients in e-learning initiatives. He is known internationally in the cross-cultural field for his work on verbal and nonverbal communication characteristics across cultures. He wrote with his associates "The Binding of Culture: Nonverbal Dimensions of Credibility in Structured Learning Situations" in Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Nonverbal Communication and has conducted workshops on intercultural training and consulting at the International Society of Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR) conferences. He has been a member of the American Society of Training and Development since 1998.