Interview

Ideal leadership is redefined as time and environments change. In today's world, with its unpredictable future, co-creative leadership spurring value creation through ideas and growth with diverse partners is replacing touted styles of instructive and dictatorial-type leadership.

Professor Jusuke Ikegami of Waseda University's Governance & Sustainability Research Institute joins Nobuyuki Tamaki, Project Leader of the Future Co-creation Initiative, in examining the distinctiveness and superiority of the Initiative that distinguish it from conventional leadership education.

This installment examines the Green Phoenix Project (GPP), a joint industry-government-academia undertaking which developed into a broad learning community.

This interview focuses on two Scenario Ambassadors of the Future Co-creation Initiative—technical researcher Akio Nakabayashi and systems consultant Kohei Kiyotake. The pair agree that their involvement with the Initiative has boosted their professional and personal growth. They discuss their activities, how they utilize what they have learned and realized, and their current and future challenges.

As Scenario Ambassadors of Yokogawa's Future Co-creation Initiative, they absorb vast amounts of information, determine directionality, and dig deep into the details to formulate future scenarios. How did they overcome the many challenges accompanying the creative process? Moreover, what did they learn through their participation, what values did they rediscover, and what aspirations do they now hold?

In 2021, Yokogawa established the Future Co-creation Initiative to help develop next-generation leaders. What unique value does this project generate from the viewpoint of Yokogawa’s long-term commitment to human capital management?

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