Now more than ever in an increasingly competitive market, your customers want to buy from brands they can relate to. Before you sell anything, you need your audience to connect with you. They need to understand your WHY. Yet few leaders know how to articulate their WHY. 

The WHY is your story, your reason for being and WHY anyone should even care. Just sharing case studies or data packed presentations doesn't entice your audience to connect with you on a more personal level. 

The ability to capture people's heart through storytelling requires skill, creativity, and most importantly, strategy. 

The 6C's of Strategic Storytelling(TM) will help you become more authentic, relatable, and powerfully persuasive by communicating your messages using business storytelling.

You will learn a step-by-step strategy to craft your message into a great story, that engages your team and customers to listen, take action, buy from you, or buy into you.

You'll leave inspired to re-think how you win over new customers and transform how you present. Get ready to uncover stories THAT SELL.

The audience will learn:

• A step-by-step strategy to transform case studies and ordinary situations into great stories and keep the audience at the edge of their seats.

• How to balance between logic and emotional values.

• How to become more authentic, meaningful, and powerful by communicating your messages using storytelling.

In today's global business environment, the success of a diverse team depends upon each and every member being able to shine. You couldn't just present your idea fully formed and insist that others comply. 

In a group, its outcome is the total sum of each member's efforts. In a team, however, its outcome is multiplied. They leverage each other's efforts and talents, and create dynamic synergy. 

As a leader of a diverse team, how can you facilitate such synergy and maximize the outcome as a team?  Lessons I learned in the ballroom have great hints.

As a strategy consultant for leading global companies, as well as a national finalist of competitive ballroom Latin dancing, Natsuyo will show the 5C's of leadership that she learned in the ballroom, and take them into the boardroom.

You will learn how to actively listen to your team members, align goals and vision, adapt your communication style, and empower diverse team.

Elevating your team to a high performance team takes two to tango. Are you ready to step into the ballroom?

The audience will learn:

• The difference between a group and a team

• Team development stages and how to navigate through these stages smoothly 

• How to become more intentional about actions to become a competent leader.

• Techniques to transform a good team into a high-performance team. 

In February 2017, Natsuyo was diagnosed with breast cancer. In between multiple surgeries, she continued to compete in Toastmasters International speech contest, and became the New York state finalist of public speaking. During her battle, she found her life mission as a professional speaker.  

In this talk, Natsuyo shares her very personal experience in how our anxieties can limit us in ways we don't notice until others can shed light. The "Two Little Words" she learned in the most unexpected situation changed her life.

They could change your life too.

The audience will learn:

• How to lead your internal conversations.

• The “Two Little Words” to turn around adversities. 

• How to apply the “Two Little Words” beyond adversities.

Gallup's recent research shows that poor cross-cultural communication costs companies $8.9 trillion globally each year. In today’s globalized world, cross-cultural misunderstandings don’t just affect the bottom line—they affect you. A missed cue or a misinterpreted message can erode trust and disrupt collaboration, and these barriers can drain your energy and impact your effectiveness. 

While conventional wisdom suggests that mastering cultural norms is key, it often falls short because our "common sense" isn't so "common" in a culturally diverse environment. Our "common sense" creates a barrier and leads to misunderstandings, miscommunication, and mistrust. But what if, instead of struggling with these cross-cultural barriers, we could transform them into high-performance drivers? 

It's time to uncover "The Culture of One" —the unique blend within each individual and transform your team into a high-performance powerhouse. Guided by the timeless Japanese principles that Natsuyo’s late father instilled in her - 誠 Sei - 和 Wa - 魂 Kon - this keynote merges the precision of these values with the fluidity of ballroom Latin dance, which Natsuyo passionately practices.

Just as each dance step creates connection, you’ll learn how to lead with intention, communicate effectively, and bring out the best in every team member, no matter where they are from.

Get ready to transcend cultural norms, conventional approaches, or even DEI initiatives, and transform cross-cultural barriers into high-performance drivers.

The global leaders will be empowered to :

• Develop practical strategies to close communication gaps and build trust.

• Cultivate facilitative communication skills that draw out the strengths of every team member and transform cross-cultural barriers into high-performance drivers.

• Gain the key mindset to successfully navigate through global business and communicate effectively beyond cultural differences with clarity and confidence.