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About Erin Yoshimura

Erin Yoshimura teaches culturally competent communication skills through personal branding, emotional intelligence training and coaching.

She’s created training programs for clients including KUSA (Gannett), Raytheon, Making Connections-Denver (funded in part by the Ann E. Casey Foundation) and the National Association of Asian American Professionals.

She's conducted workshops, lectures and keynote speeches for Colorado State University, St. Mary's Academy’s Diversity Day, the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, International Multicultural Institute, Colorado Governor’s Asian Pacific American Advisory Council and the Federal Correctional Institution in Englewood, Colorado. Her audiences are comprised of multiple generations from traditionalists to Gen-Y.

She’s a certified Personal Brand Strategist through Reach Communications Consulting, Inc., certified Emotional Intelligence trainer through Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Network in San Diego, California, and Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) through Coaches Training Institute of San Rafael, California. She has undertaken more than 700 contact hours of in-person leadership and coaches training, cultural diversity and emotional intelligence seminars.

Erin has also trained with and assisted for Lee Mun Wah (“Color of Fear”) of Stir Fry Seminars, a nationally-recognized master in diversity and communications training, and is enrolled in their certification program. She is also working towards certification as a career and executive coach. She also attended the 2004 World Work Conference, a week-long event where attendees from all over the world studied Process Work with Arnie and Amy Mindell.

She is trained in Organizational Relationship Systems Coaching, which integrates Process Work techniques and philosophies, and has completed the EQ Certification Workshop through 6 Seconds. Erin has also been trained in improv, which adds dynamic interaction to her workshops and presentations.

Erin's career before becoming a trainer and coach was in high tech, where she was an East Asian product manager, IT project manager and IT change management analyst.

What she loved most about her jobs was the dynamics of leading multi-cultural teams – whether they were made up of people in different countries, spread across different sites throughout the U.S. or even in different departments within the same building.

Now she combines her corporate experience and passion for diversity with training, coaching and branding to teach empowerful communication and cultural intelligence skills.

She is also committed to giving back to the community and served on the Operating Committee for the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival from 2001-2007, and is a member of the Japanese American Citizens League and Assian American Journalists Association.

Erin's mission is to introduce people to more possibilities through training and coaching so they can live life by choice, not by circumstance!