Zen Ohashi founded Sugoi Kaigi with an aim of helping companies to create meetings in a more effective manner. In this part of interview, Zen Ohashi talks about how he increase the company’s output as a performance by improving meetings in two month. Meanwhile, he introduces his “six days executives training program” which you can find in his first English book “Wow.” At the end of interview, he strongly recommends people to do more “how” talk rather than “why” talk. Tune in to find out more.
Zen Ohashi worked part-time for Schlumberger while he was in school, a French petroleum exploration company, doing site-speculating in Brunei and Indonesia, through which he managed to save approximately ten million yen. He used that money as capital to fund Value Exchange International, a small information consulting company in Okubo, Tokyo, Japan, where his main task was to share Japanese technological information with companies outside of Japan.
Zen Ohashi began his first business venture through his friendship with a Mr. Nakayama, by issuing stocks to fellow classmates for part of a fictitious company in his fifth grade, through which they enjoyed their first board of directors meeting.
These activities deepened his business knowledge and experience, but they came nowhere near satisfying his appetite for entrepreneurialism.
In 1998, He went to the United States amid the high-tech commercial boom to practice windsurfing and to work on an Internet-based marketing idea he shared with a friend. All throughout that year, he worked exhaustively with venture capital companies to raise the money needed—the equivalent of nearly one billion yen—to fund Gazooba corp., an Internet marketing firm in Silicon Valley. They came cross some barriers and started to search for help, this is how he first learned about the art of “Management Coaching”, Then he decided to start his life as a management coach.