PROFILE

Masako Arakane is an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) and gained Standing in the Fire certification as a diversity specialist in 2015.
After time spent working at an urban planning consultancy and for an NPO as a director, and with experience that includes business management, she founded Qualia Inc. and took up the role of president.
She first encountered the concept of diversity and inclusion (D&I) in 1996, and since that time has been working to provide consultations that promote organizational D&I, develop female employee capabilities, stimulate leadership, and help invigorate organizations.
The programs that she creates to change awareness and behavior have established her reputation, and her unconscious bias training and inclusion promotion programs have garnered great praise.
Since 2007, she has annually attended the Global Summit of Women (GSW), which brings together 1,000 female leaders from 80 countries. W hen the summit was held in Japan in 2017, she was a core member of the executive committee.
She has also served on the executive committees for the 2018 IAF Asian Conference and the W20—the official women’s engagement group at the G20—in Osaka in 2019.