News from LeadGL Academy. The full archive is on the Japanese news page.
5 July 2026
Global Communication & Influence course completed at BASF Japan
Three professionals took the course over eight weeks, in four two-hour sessions. Delivery was hybrid: one participant in the meeting room, two joining by video from Yokkaichi. Asked who they would recommend it to, they said: people past beginner level who can already hold a discussion in English and want to grow as leaders; people who have never lived abroad but use English often; and people with a reasonable grounding who sit in English-language meetings.
22 June 2026
English × inquiry begins at Denenchofu Gakuen Senior High School
A year-long class run entirely in English — two periods, nine sessions — started on 9 June. This year’s theme is Sustainable Urban Design.
16 May 2026
Lecture at the National University of Singapore
An “Authentic Leadership” lecture at the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy and Graduate School of the National University of Singapore.
14 May 2026
Chiba Meitoku High School — global careers in science and engineering
Delivered 8 January 2026. A talk on what R&D work is actually like, on working globally, on there being no single right answer to a career, and on stepping into unfamiliar territory, learning from failure, and getting there anyway.
14 May 2026
Tokyo Metropolitan Mukogaoka High School — entrepreneurship education
Delivered 12 December 2025. As one of the supporters of TiB Students, a Tokyo Metropolitan Government initiative, a two-hour lecture titled “Write your life’s story” — on stepping into the unfamiliar, on the knack of acquiring English that anyone can pick up, on purpose, and on learning from failure.
14 May 2026
Kumamoto Municipal Hitsuyukan High School — science career education
Delivered 10–11 December 2025. Three lectures centered on liberal arts and science, offered as a prompt to rethink the split between the sciences and the humanities, and on why taking on what you do not yet know matters.
14 May 2026
Ibaraki Prefectural Shimotsuma Daiichi High School — science inquiry
Delivered 6 November 2025. Advising five projects, in limited time, for around 30 second-year students working on themes in biology and chemistry: clarifying the objective, thinking and acting scientifically, and methods of critical thinking.
14 May 2026
Nagasaki Empowerment 2024 — Leadership Program
Delivered 11 August 2024. From the students: “The way I see leadership changed, and I can look at things from more angles now.” (Year 10) “I looked at Japan, at the world and at the planet, and I really did change myself.” (Year 11) “From now on I want to work out what I can do for other people, and do it.” (Year 12)
14 May 2026
Self-Leadership Summer Camp
Held in July 2024. From the students: “I got the confidence to say what I think in front of everyone.” (Grade 5) “Building something as a team was the best part.” (Year 8) From the parents: “She changed visibly in a single week. She has confidence in herself and now says she will practice as hard as it takes.” (parent, Grade 5)
14 May 2026
Joso Gakuin Junior High School — career guidance
Delivered 29 July 2025. Toshi Iwata taught around 60 students in years 7 to 9 on turning what you want to do into something real, with dialogue and presentations on making what you love and what you are good at into value for other people.