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Chris Lamatsch
Founder, Executive Coach Japan
Executive Coach, Trainer and Consultant

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Chris Lamatsch is an executive coach specializing in the development and execution of strategy for senior leaders of major corporations. He has been based in Japan for 19 years and has worked in large and small firms, both Japanese and foreign multinational. He acts as a gthinking partnerh to his clients, senior executives of foreign capital firms who wish to achieve superior performance in their current roles and in their ongoing careers.

Mr. Lamatsch is firmly committed to the development of leaders. His experience working as a senior consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers has given him a deep understanding of the systems within which leaders work. This systems approach and his wide experience in organizations allow him to identify and challenge mental models of his clients, leveraging their strengths to create positive results. In addition, his work in M&A transactions at PwC gave him the opportunity to work closely with senior management of both target and acquisition firms as a trusted business partner.

Since execution of strategy requires high performance at inspiring, influencing and developing others, Mr. Lamatsch provides expertise in specific leadership development areas. He has created a model for coaching to enhance emotional intelligence, uses behavioral coaching techniques, and has expertise in transformational coaching to help clients with significant performance advancement objectives. In addition, his experience as a trainer of executive coaching seminars allows him to transfer advanced coaching skills to his clients. He is a certified facilitator of FranklinCoveyfs Four Roles of Leadership seminar, an Adjunct Professor in Coaching and Leadership in Temple Universityfs Corporate Education program and a lecturer at Tsukuba Universityfs Graduate School of Business Management.

Mr. Lamatsch received a Japan-focused MBA from the University of Hawaii and an undergraduate degree in Intercultural Communications and Russian Language and Literature from the University of Minnesota. He serves as Vice Chair on the Board of Directors of the Tokyo English Life Line, a Japanese non-profit, and is co-chair of the Human Resource Management Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan. He currently serves as leader of the International Coach Federation Coaching in Asia Special Interest Group and has served as VP Education for his Toastmasters group in Tokyo. Mr. Lamatsch speaks English, Japanese and Russian, and his clients have included Japanese, American, French, German, Belgian, Chinese, British, Canadian, Australian and Indian senior executives.

Mr. Lamatsch has worked with the following firms: AIG, China Construction Bank, Credit-Suisse, Ford-Visteon, Goldman Sachs, Hartford Life Insurance, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, ING, Microsoft, Midas Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Chemicals, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Prudential, Rambus Japan, Royal Canin Japon, Sakata Seeds, SAP Japan, Symantec, Syngenta, Toyota, UCB Japan, and Unisys, among others.





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