Global Chamber® was pleased to speak one-on-one with Rochelle Kopp, Managing Principal at Japan Intercultural Consulting, Japanese Cultural Expert and Cross-cultural Communications Specialist.
Watch the conversation on youtube HERE. Great information!
And the conversation is a podcast, too! Listen HERE to be inspired and informed.
Rochelle's keen interest in language and culture led her to learn Japanese and work in Japan, starting her on a path to be a top cross-cultural business expert. She's written extensively in both English and Japanese on intercultural and global business topics.
More recently Rochelle has turned to the area where she lives and works, Silicon Valley, to help people better understand the language and culture there as well. Rochelle is familiar with being success in Japan or anywhere with Japanese executives. And we will be focusing our conversation here on effective meetings - and she is making an e-book available for free. Watch for more details.
For more information on Rochelle's work as Managing Principal of Japan Intercultural Consulting, please visit www.japanintercultural.com. For more information on Rochelle's quest to help decipher the jargon of Silicon Valley, please visit www.siliconvalleyspeak.com.
Keynote Speaker Biography
Rochelle Kopp - founder at Japan Intercultural Consulting. Japan Intercultural Consulting’s founder Rochelle Kopp is a prominent voice on Japanese business culture and the global operations of Japanese companies. Through her consulting work, books, and commentary in leading Japanese publications, she helps bridge cultural divides in the workplace.
As a student who enjoyed drawing and printmaking as a hobby and who was planning a career in business, Rochelle was intrigued both by Japan’s then-booming economy and by its visual arts. She decided to learn as much as she could about Japan, including studying Japanese in an intensive program at Yale University under the famed Jorden Method, and completing a business internship in Kyoto.
After graduating from Yale with a B.A. in history and the university’s Williams Prize in East Asian Studies, and then completing a consulting assignment in the United States, Rochelle returned to Japan to coordinate global communications at the head office of a major Japanese bank. As the bank rapidly globalized, she observed first-hand the human resource management challenges of expanding across borders. Returning to the U.S. to get her M.B.A., she researched the cultural issues faced by Japanese multinationals, eventually publishing an academic paper and two books on the topic. During her research, she recognized a need to support Japanese companies in becoming more effective on the global stage, leading her to create Japan Intercultural Consulting in 1994.
Rochelle has since spearheaded the firm’s growth to its current global scale, while personally leading numerous seminars and teambuilding sessions each year. She is also active as a speaker, educator, author, and columnist.
Read Rochelle’s full profile.
Browse Rochelle’s books in English and Japanese.
Moderator: Doug Bruhnke - Founder/CEO of Global Chamber®. Doug is a global entrepreneur dedicated to helping members of Global Chamber® successfully reach new markets across 525 metros - everywhere! He is a two-time expat with Dupont in Tokyo and Singapore with 34 years of global business experience in nearly all countries and segments. Doug is also regional advisor for U.S. Global Leadership Coalition and a member of Arizona District Export Council. He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Utah and an EMBA from Michigan State University, and is co-inventor on 5 patents. Doug was born in Mt. Kisco, New York and now is based in Scottsdale, Arizona and Palo Alto, California. Hear the Global Chamber® story here.
Originally published at https://www.globalchamber.org/blog/2021/08/02/global-chamber/one-on-one-with-cross-cultural-communications-expert-rochelle-kopp/
