Taka Muraji has spent more than 40 years at the intersection of Japanese and American business — and more than 25 of them helping leaders on both sides of the Pacific see what they can't see.
Born and raised in Japan, Taka began his career in advertising in Tokyo and New York (1982–1996), advising U.S. firms including Disney and Motorola on entering the Japanese market. Watching brilliant strategies fail over invisible cultural gaps left him with the question that has driven his work ever since: why do talented people struggle across cultures — and what actually changes that?
The answer took him deep into language. He earned a Master's degree in Linguistics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and in 2003 founded GLOBALEX LLC. Since then, he has designed and delivered cross-cultural training and executive coaching for global companies including Sony, Panasonic, Boeing, Yamaha, Walmart-Seiyu, and Subaru (Fuji Heavy Industries) — in English and Japanese, from frontline teams to senior executives.

How Taka Works

Skills can be trained. Lasting change happens deeper — at the level of beliefs. Taka is the creator of the Word Constellation Method (WCM), an original, linguistics-based coaching approach that turns a leader's own words into a map of the values and beliefs driving how they lead. Because beliefs live in language, he coaches in the client's mother tongue — Japanese or English, never through translation.

This inner work is grounded in world-class practice: Taka is a certified Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach, pairing WCM's deep inner discovery with measurable, stakeholder-verified behavioral change. Hogan assessment data adds an outside view where useful, but never leads: the answers aren't in a report. They're in you.

His conviction, refined over two decades of coaching: leadership is not a model to imitate — it's living fully as yourself.

Credentials & Experience
 

• 25+ years in executive coaching and cross-cultural training; 40+ years of global business experience

• Creator of the Word Constellation Method (WCM)

• Certified Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach

• Certified Hogan Assessment coach

• M.A. in Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder

• Fully bilingual coaching and facilitation (English / Japanese)