Izumi is a professionally trained coach in Japan and the United States. Her training is affiliated with CTI-USA and CTI-Japan, and she is currently enrolled in CTI´s Leadership Program.  She formerly worked as an associate professor at a highly-ranked national university in Japan with an academic and professional focus on intercultural communication and discourse analysis. She is a recognized expert in qualitative research on communication: interviewing, observation, transcription, analysis, rapport building. She has strong proficiency in working with students and clients of diverse cultural and communicative backgrounds in both academic and non-academic professional settings.

Prior to starting her graduate education, she participated in the development of marketing strategies for the third largest advertising firm in Japan. Clients included VISA Japan, Cartier Japan, and House Foods. While conducting dissertation fieldwork, she served as a participant-observer for a Chinese-Japanese joint venture in Shanghai, China, and her assignment further developed communicative skills as an English-speaking East Asia specialist with proficiencies transcending native language boundaries.

She is currently involved in creating hands-on and minds-on workshops for Japanese college students, as a part of Project for Promotion of Global Human Resource Development sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan. Her ongoing passion is to help young people define their passion and “who they are,” and to contribute to their growth as global leaders. She now lives in Westchester, New York, with her husband and son.