Kaori Sasaki

Founder & CEO, ewoman, Inc.
Founder & CEO, UNICUL International, Inc.
Founder & Chair, International Conference for Women in Business
PROFILE
Kaori Sasaki established UNICUL International, Inc., a communications consultancy that offers executive media training and translation and interpretation in seventy languages, in 1987. She founded ewoman Inc., an influential think tank and diversity consultancy that provides marketing, branding, product development, and training to major corporations, in 2000. Ms. Sasaki also currently serves on the boards of directors of public companies. She traveled to over 30 countries as an international news reporter for Japan’s top-rated news show and anchored the “CBS 60 Minutes” show in Japan. Ms. Sasaki received a B.A. from Sophia University in Tokyo in 1983. She created the day planner boom in Japan with the launch of “Action Planner”. She makes over 60 speeches a year about time management, diversity management, work-life balance, corporate social responsibility, and new methods of marketing to smart consumers. She has made over 1500 speeches in Japan and overseas, including those at OECD and APEC conferences. She is married and has two children.