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External coaching and mentoring is the key to onboarding support for foreign employees

Yuki Sakuragi ICF-ACC Coach / Mentor / GCDF-Japan Facilitator / Trainer   Samurai vs Kurofune Pharmaceutical companies make up one of the most globalized industries in the world, in which drugs are simultaneously developed worldwide.  For me, who has been raised in multiple cultures, I always thought about how I could contribute within this industry. The Japanese pharmaceutical company I first worked for had already been working on global drug development for many different countries, including the US and the EU.  However, many of the members at our foreign branches apparently wanted to take the lead of an entire project,