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is a Japanese

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and author of several best selling books, with sales numbers in the tens of millions. She writes mostly about self management,

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and how women can become more successful. She concentrates especially on optimizing thought processes and increasing productivity.

Biography

She graduated from

Keio University , mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword , type = Private research coeducational higher education institution , established = 1858 , founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa , endowmen ...

School of Commerce and the

Waseda University , abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the ''Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō'' by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the school was formally renamed Waseda University in 1902. The university has numerou ...

Graduate School with a

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. Later she worked as analyst for several international consulting companies and banks like

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and

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. As of 2022, JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States, the ...

. Katsuma was nominated as one of "The 50 Women to Watch 2005" by ''

The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

''. She was placed in the "Advocates" section, which means that she works to improve the lives of other women. In Katsuma's sophomore year at Keio University in Tokyo, she had passed her second stage CPA exam and obtained a position at one of the leading accounting firms in Japan. When she was 21 years old, she got a CPA position at a Japanese branch of the accounting firm Arthur and Andersen & Co., this accomplishment was achieved in the same year she gave birth to her first child. In 1994, after giving birth to her second child, Katsuma decided to take her finance career in another direction: She decided to become a securities trader and researcher for

Chase Bank JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., doing business as Chase Bank or often as Chase, is an American national bank headquartered in New York City, that constitutes the consumer and commercial banking subsidiary of the U.S. multinational banking and fina ...

. Katsuma found a niche in the analytical side of the financial industry. She had shifted from company to company during her career—like so many do in her field—and found a home for a few years at the consulting group

McKinsey & Company McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey, that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. McKinsey is the oldest and ...

. While at McKinsey, Katsuma gave birth to her third child. In 2003, Katsuma had changed companies again, this time she had decided to work at J.P. Morgan as an analyst. It was between her work at J.P. Morgan and the founding her website forum for a working mothers titled "Field of Mugi" that grabbed the ''Wall Street Journals attention; they subsequently added Katsuma to their list for the "Top 50 women to watch". In 2018, Katsuma declared that she was in a relationship with and living with another woman,

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rights activist Hiroko Masuhara.

References

External links

Official site (Japanese)

Official blog (Japanese)

Twitter

– Katsuma's community website for mothers {{DEFAULTSORT:Katsuma, Kazuyo 1968 births Living people Businesspeople from Tokyo Japanese accountants Japanese feminists Japanese management consultants Japanese women writers JPMorgan Chase people Keio University alumni McKinsey & Company people Waseda University alumni 21st-century Japanese businesswomen 21st-century Japanese businesspeople Writers from Tokyo 20th-century Japanese businesswomen 20th-century Japanese businesspeople