COACHING FOR CHANGEMAKERS
Move your social-impact idea or organisation forward.
Practical, personalised coaching for social entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and changemakers navigating decisions, challenges and opportunities.
Available in English or Japanese · Pay-What-You-Can pilot pricing
START WHERE YOU ARE
You don’t need to figure everything out alone.
Building something that creates social or environmental value can be rewarding, but also complex. You might be balancing impact with making a living, testing an unfamiliar model, navigating partnerships, or simply trying to figure out the right next step.
Finding your next step
You have an idea or initiative, but need greater clarity on what to prioritise and how to move forward.
Navigating a challenge
You need an experienced sounding board for a decision, roadblock, partnership or organisational issue.
Strengthening your impact
You want to sharpen your strategy, business model, impact approach or plans for sustainable growth.
HOW WE CAN HELP
Practical support shaped around your situation.
Each conversation starts where you are. We bring questions, experience and tools that ensure we are focusing on your needs.
Clarify the challenge
Step back from the immediate pressure and identify the real question, obstacle or opportunity.
Find a practical way forward
Turn ideas and discussion into realistic priorities, decisions and next steps.
Strengthen your strategy
Explore your model, audience, impact, partnerships, funding or organisational approach.
Bring an outside perspective
Receive thoughtful challenge and honest feedback from people who understand both mission and implementation.
WHY SIJ
Built by practitioners, shaped by experience.
We are not looking at social entrepreneurship from the outside. As the co-founders of Social Innovation Japan and mymizu, we have spent years building impact-driven initiatives, developing partnerships, navigating funding and growth, and turning ambitious ideas into programmes and services that people use.
Global + Local
With 20+ years of collective experience in social innovation spanning more than 20 countries, we bring a wealth of knowledge encompassing entrepreneurship, NGOs, and corporate innovation initiatives. Our expertise is enriched by our deep understanding of Japan’s local context, whilst also bringing experience of social impact from a global perspective. profound understanding of Japan. We work fluently in both Japanese and English.
Track Record
Proven track record of designing innovative learning experiences and providing support for some of the world’s leading corporations, as well as international organisations including the World Bank and United Nations.
Thought Leadership
Award-winning social entrepreneurs and innovators, regularly called upon by top companies and media for commentary and insights.
WHAT TO EXPECT
A simple process, focused on what will help.
Begin with a short introductory conversation. From there, sessions are tailored to the decisions, challenges or opportunities you want to work through.
01 · INTRODUCTORY CALL
Tell us what you are working on
A free initial conversation to understand your situation, what support you need and whether we are a good fit.
02 · PERSONALISED COACHING
Work through the challenge
Focused sessions shaped around your current needs, with practical questions, relevant frameworks and honest feedback.
03 · CLEAR NEXT STEPS
Leave with greater clarity
Identify priorities and actions. Further sessions can be arranged when ongoing support would be useful.
Meet your coaches
Mariko McTier & Robin Takashi Lewis
Hi! 👋 We’re two social entrepreneurs and educators who thrive off working with people to solve problems.
Since 2017, we’ve been building social ventures that have impacted hundreds of thousands of people in Japan and around the world and have run dozens of training programs, workshops, and coaching sessions to help people make the change they want to see in the world.
We’re board members, advisors, mentors, and coaches for impact-driven changemakers working in areas as diverse as education, environment, and social justice, and are lucky to have been featured by the likes of CNN, BBC, Vogue, and Netflix for our work, as well as winning social entrepreneurship awards from prestigious places like MIT Technology Review, Business Insider and Forbes.
We’re all about understanding where people are on their journeys, working out their ideal destination, and then figuring out how we can help them get there. We draw from not only decades of experience but also a broad range of frameworks, models, and tools to make sure that we get where we need to be.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you and starting our journey together!
Pay-What-You-Can Model
We understand that changemakers come from a wide range of financial circumstances. As part of a pilot, we are offering a Pay-What-You-Can model to make quality coaching more accessible to social entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and other changemakers.
A flexible model designed to widen access.
Rather than setting one fixed price for everyone, we invite you to decide what to pay after experiencing the coaching, based on your circumstances and the value you received.
Experience the coaching
Take part in a coaching session before deciding what to pay.
Decide your contribution
After the session, choose an amount based on your financial circumstances and the value you feel you received.
Use our pricing guide
We will provide suggested pricing tiers as a reference, but the final decision is yours.
Help us improve the model
As part of this pilot, we will ask for your feedback so that we can refine the approach and make it work well for future participants.
Awards
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Contact Us
As part of our Pay-What-You-Can pilot program, we invite you to discuss your coaching needs with us. Let's explore how we can support your journey in a way that respects both your financial situation and the value of our support.
Contact us to set up a free introductory call!