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“Are your mind and heart set free?”

CEO Makoto Shiono

This question stands at the very beginning of IGPI’s Guiding Principles—the Eight Questions. It reflects a belief that has shaped our firm since its founding.

To define the essential issues in management and create genuine enterprise value, we believe that what is required goes far beyond conventional, template-driven thinking or standardized consulting frameworks. What matters is a deep insight into human nature, cross-disciplinary knowledge, and above all, a mind that remains free.

In today’s management environment, the range of phenomena that leaders must understand has grown dramatically. Discussions at boards and executive meetings now routinely span topics from AI to geopolitics. As management challenges multiply and the scope of what leaders must understand continues to grow, professionals must offer more than knowledge alone. By providing an integrated worldview and profound insight, we can work with executives to spark discontinuous, transformative change.

At IGPI, we step aboard the same ship as management and navigate together to discover the unique, context-specific answers for each business in an age defined by uncertainty.

Professionals at IGPI are not individuals who merely perform isolated managerial functions. We are evangelists of “ambidextrous management”—professionals driven by aspiration and purpose. At a time when AI is advancing to replace intellectual tasks, it has never been more important for human consultants to possess the ability to move people—who are inherently filled with contradictions—and to hold a panoramic perspective that anticipates the future. IGPI fosters management professionals who are not narrowly functional specialists, but individuals with cross-disciplinary, integrated viewpoints. We believe such talent is essential for driving long-term value creation.

Across Japan and abroad, IGPI has consistently taken risks through our own investments and hands-on management. These diverse and practical experiences are what enable us to derive solutions tailored to the realities our clients face. Free from predetermined methods, we commit to delivering results from strategy through execution, providing clients with value that is truly essential.

CEO Makoto Shiono