Ikuko Atsumi

Ikuko Atsumi is the Director of the Institute for Global Education and President of Global Education Inc. After graduating from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, she was appointed as an assistant professor at her alma mater, and then went on to become a researcher at Harvard University. In 1983, Atsumi established a consultancy in cross-cultural management training in the suburbs of Boston - the first of its kind in the U.S. Her training program gained fame after being featured in Time...See more

Ikuko Atsumi is the Director of the Institute for Global Education and President of Global Education Inc. After graduating from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, she was appointed as an assistant professor at her alma mater, and then went on to become a researcher at Harvard University. In 1983, Atsumi established a consultancy in cross-cultural management training in the suburbs of Boston - the first of its kind in the U.S. Her training program gained fame after being featured in Time magazine, and the firm started providing personnel training and global market strategy solutions to numerous blue-chip U.S. corporations. Atsumi's corporate clients have included top Fortune companies such as IBM, Ford, Xerox, and Bausch and Lomb. For 15 years, she was in charge of executive training at DuPont Worldwide and United Technologies. Many corporations have adopted the Cultural World Map developed by Atsumi as a basic tool for their global education programs. In 2001, Global Education Inc. entered the Asian market with the opening of its Singapore office. Since returning to Japan in 2007, Atsumi has continued to provide global talent training programs for major Japanese companies, while also promoting global education for children. She currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the Education Subcommittee of the Japanese nonpartisan national policy think tank National Vision Society. See less