Tadatoshi (Toshi) Fujiwara

Leadership Coach & Facilitator

Tadatoshi (Toshi) Fujiwara grew up in Nagasaki, Japan and has decades of experience as a global business leader with the NEC corporation. Based on his worldwide business expertise, leadership of various NEC organisations, and formal training, Toshi provides executive coaching to help decision-makers within large organisations maximize their potential to organise, inspire, and lead others.

Over the years he has gained several coaching qualifications, including practitioner of The Leadership Circle’s 360° assessment, and formal certification as a Co-Active Coach following his training by the Coaches Training Institute (CTI). Toshi is recognized by the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC). He delivers coaching and other professional services in Japanese, and he also speaks conversational English.

Toshi’s career-long association with the NEC Corporation began as a design engineer in the telecommunication field. Eventually, he worked in systems engineering, project management, and business development within NEC’s telecommunication network unit. Over the years, Toshi gained first-hand business experience in Asia-Pacific, North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. His longest expatriate assignment occurred during the mid-1980s, when he lived for over four years in New Delhi, India, leading a rural communication project that widely deployed switching systems; he also lived for two years in London during 2011-12. Toshi’s senior-level responsibilities within NEC included serving as general manager of the global mobile infrastructure unit, as a board member of the NEC Group in New Zealand and Hong Kong, and chief technical officer and senior VP of NEC’s regional headquarters in Europe.

During 2013, Toshi was selected as one of the first internal coaches in NEC Corporation. It was at this time that he received his Co-Active Coaching training from CTI, which brought him into the coaching world. In early 2019, Toshi became an independent coach and he has recorded over 1,500 hours coaching and TLC debriefing with around 100 executives. He is also working in International Coaching Federation, Japan Chapter as Director and supporting coaching schools, Coaches in Japan from September 2020.