Lance Tanaka

Lance Tanaka is the founder and Managing Director of Lance Tanaka Group (LTG), previously known as Asia Executive Resource Ltd (AER), a consulting company that provides executive coaching for the “best of the best.” He works with the leading multinational and local companies in their respective industries throughout Asia-Pacific. Since the firm’s inception in 2001, Lance has accumulated over 17,000 coaching hours of executives from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the US, and Europe. 

 He has coached:

–        over 800 CEO, Partner, Managing Director, General Manager level executives from the top global firms 

–        over 500 from the top professional services and financial services firms 

–        global clients considered the “best of the best” 

–        top 10 investment banks

–        big 4 accounting firms 

–        big 3 consulting firms 

–        top 10 hi-tech companies 

–        top 10 automobile companies 

–        top pharmaceutical/biotech companies

 In addition to his work as an executive coach, Lance is a premiere business executive. From 1997 to 2001, he served as Vice President of International for Cole Haan working out of Hong Kong, Lance restructured and set up new operations in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Korea, Italy, UK, Iberia, Greece, and France. Prior to Cole Haan, Lance held a number of senior positions in Pepsi-Cola International over a 15-year period. 

These included:

–        Managing Director of Pepsi-Cola and Salim Group Joint Venture in Indonesia 

–        Vice-President of South Asia Pepsi-Cola out of Singapore 

–        President of Pepsi-Cola and President Enterprises Joint Venture in Taiwan 

–        Sales Director Tokyo Bottling Company in Japan 

His TedTalk can be accessed on this link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOS4JCfS-0c&feature=youtu.be