EGAKU

Kimi Hasebe
Co-founder/CEO, White Ship Inc. and Director, ELAB

In 2001, together with artist Kunihiko Tanizawa, she founded White Ship Inc. with the vision of using the power of art to create a spiritually enriching, recycling-oriented society. Her creative thinking development method, EGAKU®️, which she developed in 2002, has expanded to include children, students, business professionals, and companies, with 26,000 people taking the course to date. Since 2008, she has designed, implemented, and taught programs using the method to address the challenges of over 200 organizations, primarily major corporations. She has also led the introduction of the method to over 50 schools and educational organizations, including junior and senior high schools, teachers, universities, and graduate schools, directing lesson design and serving as a lecturer.

Mari Mori
Manager & Creative Learning Director, Corporate Solutions, White Ship, Inc and Director / Creative Learning Director, ELAB

After graduating from university, she worked in sales at a foreign pharmaceutical company. She then worked in marketing positions at two pharmaceutical-related companies, including corporate sales for research support and market research. While working there, she earned an MBA from the Graduate School of Management, Globis University. While reexamining her way of working and living, he encountered coaching, and after experiencing his own transformation, she now supports the transformation of people and organizations. In 2023, she joined White Ship/ ELAB, where she plans, designs, manages, and teaches programs for the next generation of corporate leaders and students.

Ryoko Nakamura
Chief Global Learning & Strategy Officer, White Ship Inc. and Director / Head of Global Projects & Partnerships, ELAB

She graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs with a degree in International Development. She has worked at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, New York, London and Tokyo. After working at TPG Axon Capital and Deutsche Asset Management, she joined White Ship in 2013, where she is primarily responsible for programs for foreign and global companies. She also promotes overseas projects and dissemination at ELAB, and in 2024 she planned and implemented a program for global education experts at the OECD Paris headquarters, where she served as a lecturer, earning positive reviews.

Hiroko Takahashi
Creative Learning Director, ELAB

After graduating from the Faculty of Law at Hitotsubashi University, she joined the Bank of Tokyo (now Mitsubishi UFJ Bank). She was involved in foreign exchange market operations and IT-based corporate fund settlement services, and after working at the bank’s Hong Kong branch, she was involved in organizational management as branch manager of three domestic branches. She also led the bank’s diversity promotion efforts as head of the Diversity Promotion Office. During her 31-year career, including at subsidiaries, she realized the strength of an organization that makes use of diversity. In 2021, she was appointed Managing Director of ELAB, a general incorporated association. She understands the unique characteristics of Japanese organizations and excels at supporting educational settings, planning, designing, operating, and teaching programs.