Lance Tanaka

Lance Tanaka Group (an Asia Executive Resource Ltd. company)

Managing Director

www.lancetanakagroup.com

Lance, a Japanese-American was born, raised and educated in the US, but has spent much of his professional life living and working throughout Asia. 

Executive coach                                                                             

He is currently the founder and Managing Director of Asia Executive Resource Ltd. (AER), a Lance Tanaka Group (LTG) company that provides executive coaching for the “best of the best” global and local companies throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe and US.

Since AER’s inception in 2001, Lance has accumulated over 18,000 coaching hours of executives throughout Asia, US and Europe. He has coached

• over 900 CEO, Partner, Managing Director, General Manager level executives from the top global firms
• “best of the best” global clients
  • top 10 investment banks big 4 accounting firms
  • big 3 consulting firms                 top 10 hi-tech companies
  • top 10 automobile companies top pharmaceutical/bio-tech cos.

Business executive

From 1997 to 2001, as Vice President of International for Nike, Lance restructured and set up new operations in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, Korea, Italy, UK, Iberia, Greece and France.

Lance held a number of senior positions in Pepsi-Cola International in a 15-year period

• 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
• Area Vice President of Chicago, US

He has published 3 books, Stories from the Top, Tend Your Garden, Dream and Achieve and leads 2 podcast series, Tanaka in Three and Stories from the Top.