Summary
Yuji Yamada is a Tokyo-based founder and CEO who has spent the past decade shaping Self-Managing Organizations (SMOs) by blending hands-on consulting, original research, and international dialogue. As founder of R3S and head of the RenDanHeYi Japan Research Center, he helps Japanese organizations redistribute authority, embed decision-making at the front line, and scale without losing cultural distinctiveness. He coordinates Corporate Rebels Japan, translating global management innovations into practical experiments for progressive companies and public institutions. His background spans leadership roles in startups and HR, and he supervises Japanese translations of influential books on modern work—evidence of his knack for bridging scholarship, practice, and culture. Unusually for an organizational designer, he also codes and has made games, reflecting a maker’s mindset that informs his iterative, experimental approach to organizational change.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor, psychology, bachelor, psychology at 上智大学 / Sophia University
筑波大学附属高等学校
English, Japanese