Kristine Kawamura

Kristine Marin Kawamura is clinical professor of management at the Drucker School of Management. She teaches the course Create Your Future, a core class within the Drucker Signature Platform that provides highly personalized and practice-based experiences to help students identify their unique career pathways and to invent (or re-invent) their work identities. Students learn to integrate knowledge of the field with knowledge of themselves. They also practice reflection and resilience-building skills to make better decisions and maximize personal and professional wellbeing as they navigate change. Kawamura also teaches courses on Creating Effective Organizations, Strategy, and Cross-Cultural Leadership.

Kawamura is also the CEO and founder of Yoomi Consulting Group, Inc., a company with a mission to transform the world by transforming how leaders lead and people perform. She is committed to enlivening and empowering the human aspect of strategic management, organizational behavior, leadership development, innovation, technology, and management practice in order to reconnect human health and economic wealth with social progress and the creation of responsible, sustainable, and innovative organizations and societies. She balances the bottom line with deeply human approaches to help her clients maximize results and her students to learn, grow, and create careers that allow them to contribute from their heart-based values and purpose.

Kawamura’s current research focuses on developing groundbreaking and original theory, research, and methods for reinventing organizations, leadership, and performance with Care—a core resource for enabling collaboration, authenticity, resilience, and engagement across all human and high-tech touchpoints.

Education

• PhD Drucker School of Management (2000 — 2007)
• Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) University of California, Los Angeles (1993 — 1996)
• BA St. Olaf College (1978 — 1982)

Companies

• Clinical Full Professor of Management Claremont Graduate University - Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management (2018)
• Senior Lecturer Loyola Marymount University (2016)
• Founder and CEO YOOMI Consulting Group, Inc. (2016)
• Visiting Professor, Future of Work Department ESADE Business School, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona (2015 — 2017)
• President and CEO KDK Consulting, Inc. (1998 — 2015)
• Branch Manager Entex Information Services, Inc. (1997 — 1998)
• VP Marketing/International Giga Information Group (1994 — 1997)
• Founder and CEO Strategic Linkages International (1992 — 1994)
• Managing Director, Southeast Asia, and Right-hand to CEO and Founder Gartner Group (1987 — 1992)