Japan-anchored
We start with businesses, individuals and opportunities connected with Japan, without limiting possibility to Japanese companies, Japanese people or work within Japan.
About GCI
About Global Career Incubator
We treat businesses and individuals as equally important clients. Talent, organization and career are connected with business strategy and the conditions needed to perform.
Corporate Identity
Who we are
GCI is a Japan-anchored, globally open Talent & Business Acceleration Firm.
Globally open
Global means the ability to perform across markets, institutions, languages and cultures. It does not mean only multinational employers or English ability.
Talent & business
Hiring, development, organization and career are considered with business strategy, resources and the conditions needed for sustained performance.
Corporate Identity
Principles that guide our decisions.
GCI’s philosophy provides shared criteria for decisions across our business, hiring, evaluation and client work. It defines what we value and how we act.
Expand Possibility at the Japan-Global Interface
At the point of contact between Japan and the world, we expand the possibilities of people and organizations.
Transform Potential into Global Performance
We turn possibilities into results that create value around the world.
Potential Beyond Limits
We aim to create a society where the potential of people and organizations is demonstrated beyond all boundaries and constraints.
Potential that benefits society
We want people to use their abilities beyond unnecessary barriers of nationality, educational background or employer type, creating better products, services, work opportunities and lives.
Client outcomes that enable the next challenge
We treat businesses and individuals as clients of equal standing and support sustainable outcomes for each. Hiring, changing jobs or completing training is not the final outcome in itself.
Growth and fulfilment for our people
We reinvest the profit, trust and capabilities generated through client outcomes in people, technology and knowledge. Professional development, health, rest and learning support a cycle of better outcomes for future clients.
DREAMValues
Bring shared values into everyday choices.
The five DREAM values express what GCI stands for and provide shared standards for hiring, client support and company culture.
Drive with our Belief
Act on the value GCI believes in, without being diverted by short-term convenience or industry convention.
Ring the World with Change
Drive real change for customers, businesses and society.
Embrace the Difficulty
Face the substance of difficult challenges, including barriers of language, culture and information.
Always Commit to Clients
Take responsibility for outcomes and sustained support for both business and individual clients.
More than Words
Demonstrate our values through action, deliverables, measures and systems, as well as ideas and proposals.
ACTIONPrinciples
Put values into action.
The six ACTION principles guide our people’s everyday behaviour. Alongside COMMIT, which defines how we work with clients, they connect our philosophy with practice.
Aim Above All Aspirations
Commit to Dive Deep
Think Big, Deliver Strong
Interact with Clarity and Empathy
Ownership and Lastmanship
Navigate with Hypothesis, Validate with Action
COMMIT
Build independence through working together.
Long engagements or more frequent contact are not ends in themselves. Share outcomes with clients, repeat execution, verification and revision, and leave the ability to decide, act and improve.
Put the six COMMIT principles into practice through jointly defined outcomes, joint planning, anticipation, evidence-based measurement, necessary course correction and capability transfer. Agree scope and responsibilities, and recognize an appropriate reduction or end to support as progress for the client.
C · Co-define Outcomes
Define outcomes and success conditions together.
Clarify with the client what counts as an outcome and what state represents success. Confirm at the start which capabilities should move in-house or become independently sustainable.
O · Organize the Joint Plan
Design the joint plan.
Agree who does what by when and where progress and outcomes are reviewed. Separate client and GCI responsibilities, and include milestones for development, joint execution and transfer.
M · Move Before Asked
Anticipate the next need.
Share risks and gaps affecting outcomes early and proactively propose the next actions needed. Do more than answer questions.
M · Measure with Evidence
Measure using evidence.
Review progress and GCI’s contribution using actions, outcomes, data and concrete evidence. Handing over materials alone does not complete capability transfer: confirm that the work can be performed at the required quality.
I · Intervene and Realign
Intervene and adjust where needed.
Do not make adherence to the original plan an end in itself. Revise priorities, methods and roles according to facts and outcomes, and voice necessary disagreement or warnings.
T · Transfer Capability
Support internal capability and independent operation.
Transfer decision criteria, knowledge, habits and systems to the client. Leave businesses able to operate and improve independently, and individuals able to think, choose and learn again in a different environment.
COMMIT does not unconditionally guarantee an offer, a hire, revenue growth or other results. Agree outcome conditions, responsibilities, scope, duration and fees, and verify the work with evidence and make the changes needed.
Founder & CEO
A company that turns possibility into progress.
Shinichi Ikawa
Representative Director CEO / FounderGlobal Career IncubatorTalent & Business Acceleration
Seen in a global context, Japan has considerable potential that remains unrealised. Businesses have ideas for their next stage of growth, but lack the people and organisation to deliver them. Individuals have significant potential, yet may struggle to believe in it, use it fully or connect it with opportunity. I have encountered both frustrations repeatedly in government, international work, operating businesses and management.
That is why GCI brings talent and business together. For companies, we help move the business forward through people and organisations. For individuals, we look beyond securing a new role to the value they can create after joining. In both cases, we want to provide support that advances lives and businesses, including difficult facts and constructive disagreement when necessary.
We want to build a company whose quality does not depend on one person’s experience or exceptional individual effort. We learn alongside our clients, turn that learning into organisational knowledge and systems, and raise the standard of the next engagement. Client outcomes should support company growth; that growth should strengthen our people’s expertise, compensation and fulfilment, enabling us to create further value. Building that cycle into how the company operates is why I am committed to GCI.
Company overview
Company information
| Company | Global Career Incubator Co., Ltd.（株式会社Global Career Incubator） |
|---|---|
| Representative | Shinichi Ikawa, Representative Director & CEO |
| Registered office | 7F, Schmidt Toranomon Building, 3-11-9 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan |
| Businesses | Japan-Global Expansion & Growth; Talent Search; Career Acceleration |
| Recruitment licence | 13 – ユ – 316360 |
| Capital | JPY 7,500,000 |
| Telephone | +81 3 6899 1927 |
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