Shintaro Tominaga

Shintaro Tominaga

Crosscultural Business Consultant/Trainer

Japan

Current
  • Senior Associate at Global Dynamics
  • Crosscultural Trainer at Pacific Dreams, Inc.
  • Crosscultural Trainer/Consultant at Global Education
  • Crosscultural Business Consultant (Self-employed)
Past
  • Crosscultural Business and Communication Trainer at Ricoh
  • Crosscultural Communication Consultant at Sanno Institute of Management
  • Managing Director at Rodan Singapore Pte. Ltd
Education
  • University of Nagasaki
Connections
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Industry
Management Consulting
Websites

Shintaro Tominaga’s Summary

Shintaro currently provides crosscultural business advice, consulting and training to native English speaking business people. Training includes "Effective Presentation for Japanese Business People", "Crosscultural Communication with Japanese Business People" and "Win-win Negotiation with Japanese Business People". On the other hand, he provides crosscultural training to Japanese business people who are engaged in cross-border business.

All programs that Shintaro produces are based on his empirical, down-to-earth, practical international business experiences for more than 30 years. He has analyzed such experiences and elicited important elements existing in actual crosscultural business. They are utilized in the programs that Shintaro has made by himself. One of the strongest features is that his programs are not created from armchair theories but practical and actual business experiences of his own through mingling and struggling with a variety of business people in the world. Therefore, the benefits that the attendees can get from Shintaro's training are "effective, practical and useful solutions", which can be immediately applied to the business in relation to Japanese business people.

Shintaro Tominaga’s Specialties:

Consulting on methods, protocols, know-how, et al of how to do and manage business effectively with Japanese business people.

Crosscultural communication training and seminars.

Crosscultural business negotiation advising.

Business document translation.


Shintaro Tominaga’s Experience

  • Senior Associate

    Global Dynamics

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2007Present (2 years 7 months)

    I provide crosscltural training to business people who are relocated to Japan from Euro-American countries so that they can learn how to enjoy life and make business grow in Japan.

  • Crosscultural Trainer

    Pacific Dreams, Inc.

    (Management Consulting industry)

    2004Present (5 years)

    I often go to Portland, Oregon to provide crosscultural seminars to local American business people so that they can have good business results with Japanese business people.

  • Crosscultural Trainer/Consultant

    Global Education

    (Education Management industry)

    January 2002Present (7 years 7 months)

    On a job basis, I provide crosscultural training to its clients. I have been working with Global Education for six years.

  • Crosscultural Business Consultant

    Self-employed

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)

    April 1992Present (17 years 4 months)

    Crosscultural business consulting in relation to Japan, specializing in cross-cultural business communication including negotiation with Japanese businesspeople, relocation training before being despatched to Japan, etc.

  • Crosscultural Business and Communication Trainer

    Ricoh

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2000December 2004 (5 years)

    Provided crosscultural business communication trainings to engineers at the Research & Development Headquarters of Ricoh located in Yokohama.

  • Crosscultural Communication Consultant

    Sanno Institute of Management

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Education Management industry)

    May 1997March 2002 (4 years 11 months)

    Provided crosscultural communication trainings to member companies of Sanno Institute of Management as a part-time consultant. I made training materials by myself.

  • Managing Director

    Rodan Singapore Pte. Ltd

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

    January 1979February 1986 (7 years 2 months)

    Constructed a factory which produced polyester film capacitors in Singapore for a Japanese electronic component manufacutring company based in Tokyo, Japan.

    Managed the total operation of the factory including personnel administration, manufacutring cost calculation, production management, quality management, and sales & marketing.


Shintaro Tominaga’s Education

  • University of Nagasaki

    Bachelor , Business Strategies of Multinational Corporations , 19701974

    Activities and Societies:
    Planning Director of the Student Council

Additional Information

Shintaro Tominaga’s Websites:

Shintaro Tominaga’s Interests:

Crosscultural communication with Japanese business persons, Understanding of Japanese business practices, Distributor management in the Japan market, Improving Japanese language skills in carrying out business in Japan Practiced Judo for more than 10 years, having no black belt though for being too busy to get it. Often threw away second dan black belt Judo players while in college. Now no more active in Judo playing but maitaining muscle strength with sit-ups, chin-ups, push-ups and jogging almost everyday. Used to play the guitar singing American folk songs while being a college student.

Shintaro Tominaga’s Honors:

United Nations English Proficiency Test - Special "A" (1987)
The test was conducted by the United Nations Association of Japan.

Sales Management Training received from Chesterton International, Inc. (1990)

Sales Management Training received from BMW, AG. (1995)


Shintaro Tominaga’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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