Monthly Meeting
Game Changers: New Opportunities and Challenges in the Digital Transformation
May 20th @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM (JST) Are you a digital game changer? If not now, then when? In May, the FEW monthly meeting will welcome special guest Noriko Rzonca, a financial industry expert, influencer and leader in data science-driven digital transformation (DX). As Japan races full speed ahead to promote DX, an imperative across all industries…
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Managing the Ups and Downs of Professional Life
April 22nd @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM (JST) Dr. Ashley Dash shares with us her secret sauce of success. Her story of facing foreclosure in America, being ‘stuck’ at work, and overcoming societal setbacks is a testament to her resilience. Through her own lived experiences, Dr. Dash has distilled lasting lessons for managing the ups and downs of…
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March Monthly Meeting Recap – Tackling the Gender Gap: Finding Your Niche with Hitomi Komachi
FEW Japan welcomed Hitomi Komachi, Senior Associate at Allen and Overy to speak at our March 2021 monthly meeting. Hitomi’s personal journey in law began through a Zurich International School Career Fair in 2001 where she met an inspiring female lawyer and a work shadow opportunity at Credit Suisse. Eventually Hitomi landed a training contract…
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Tackling the Gender Gap: Finding Your Niche
March 25th @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM (JST) In March, the FEW Monthly meeting will have a special guest, Hitomi Komachi, a rising star female lawyer, and a mother of a newborn baby balancing her career and family life. The legal sector is traditionally male dominated and within it she specialises in the energy and natural resources sector,…
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February Monthly Meeting Recap – Sustainable Building through Passive House Standards with Miwa Mori
For our February 2021 monthly meeting, we very much enjoyed welcoming Miwa Mori, President of Key Architects. Hearing about sustainable and effective ways to make houses in Japan better insulated and thus more comfortable was fascinating. Mori-san explained how Passive House design and strategies have been highly effective in both new builds and retrofit designs.…
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Sustainable Building through Passive House Standards with Miwa Mori
February 25th @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM (JST) Join us for an inspiring conversation with the remarkable Passive House architect, entrepreneur and community builder, Miwa Mori. Miwa Mori is a torch-bearer for the Passive House Movement in Japan. Passive house is a voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building, which reduces the building’s ecological footprint. Miwa is…
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Shinnenkai 2021 Reimagining Community with FEW Japan
January 21st @ 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM (JST) Kick-off 2021 by reimagining community and developing engagement across individual, organizational, and corporate members On 21st January, 2021 we will kick off the new year joining individual, organizational, and corporate members together at our Shinnenkai. In this very interactive session, we will enjoy the opportunity to get to know the…
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Reimagining Social Impact During COVID-19 with Christey West
Christey West, co-founder of “Just Peoples” gave an inspiring presentation on what it takes to tackle world poverty especially with the compounded challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Before becoming a wife and mother, Christey travelled to Nepal where she first encountered children in need of appropriate outerwear and shoes. Following the advice of…
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A Creative Mindset: The Key to Success in a Post-Pandemic Economy with Ruth Marie Jarman
By Keri Cromb As June 2020 marked the beginning of post COVID-19, FEW Japan welcomed long term resident Ruth Marie Jarman to give her insights on how we can mentally prepare ourselves for a new economic reality. We had a record sign up for this online event. Ruth as an entrepreneur, author, active member and…
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Coping with the Unknown: Strategies to Develop Resilience with Yukari Horiguichi
FEW’s virtual monthly meeting with guest Yukari Horiguichi, CEO of Communications Psychology International (CPI), discussed the timely topic of resilience as most people have been staying home and avoiding travel outside their vicinity during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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