Mikiko (Chikada) Kawase

Mikiko is the founder and CEO of TISM Corporation (formerly MK Partners Co., Ltd.), a boutique consulting firm headquartered in Tokyo. She is widely recognized as an experienced management consultant as well as a superb facilitator of professional workshops. Before establishing TISM in 1998, she held a position as a senior investment professional at prestigious global investment banks for a total of 13 years.

Mikiko found Mind Maps in 1984 when she was an MBA candidate. She still remembers how excited she was when she finished reading gUse Your Head." Deeply impressed with the concept, she started using Mind Maps for virtually everything. Currently, she is devoting much time and energy into spreading Mental Literacy.

Mikiko holds an MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University.