I have reached a level of essential business English conversation. I had almost no opportunity to use English before entering GSM, so I determined to take the plunge and took 10 English courses instead of the two required for graduation, three extra-curricular classes, including online exchange programs, and also voluntarily took English courses on Coursera during the summer vacation.

It was also significant that I got an academic theoretical backbone to the practical experience and knowledge I had gained as a management consultant. In particular, I made many discoveries regarding statistical analysis methods, enterprise valuation, and corporate finance. Moreover, I was able to exchange discussions with researchers from various fields at the two conference presentations and gained insight into strategic management direction after the paradigm shift.

Since I worked independently as a management consultant before entering GSM, my career path has mostly stayed the same after graduating from GSM. However, the content of my work will gradually change in the future. In addition to increased international projects, consulting for individual companies will decrease, and leveraged work such as lectures and speeches in front of audiences will increase. My 20 years of practical experience as a consultant has been focused and systematized during my two years at GSM, and I can now teach others in an inspiring way. Accordingly, I want to combine my knowledge with what I have learned in GSM to create practical wisdom and improve SME productivity in Japan.

I have been instructing business analysis training, a required curriculum for Small and Medium Enterprise Management Consultants, as a lecturer at Hosei University's Business School for about ten years. When I asked my SV, Prof. Tomoki Sekiguchi, if I could do the same kind of training at GSM, he willingly approved it as a domestic internship, and seven of my classmates and I could do it in the summer of our first year. We had many discussions within a limited time; some became heated and lasted longer than six hours.

Eventually, we completed the report, which was 180 pages long, 145 PowerPoint pages, and presented it in two hours in a GSM classroom to the client company's owners. Although the proposals were unfocused and rough, our members received polite thanks and appreciation from them, which gave us a sense of accomplishment. We continue to have a relationship with them, and every time we receive a report that they have realized the proposal and the business is growing, even if only little by little, we feel glad that we all worked so hard in the heat of the moment.