The name Many Truths stands for Personal and Cultural Diversity. We live and work in
a world of infinite diversity. We support our clients in gaining maximum benefit from these
differences. We all have our personal view of the world. We all have ideas about how people
should behave and how things should be done.  These are our truths, and your truth often differs
from mine.

We all have our truths and nobody has the whole truth. This is also the case at group and cultural level. In fact, we can define culture as the shared collective truths of a certain group of people. In this age of globalisation and immigration, we are more frequently living and working in places where our truths are not shared by the people around us. We live in the world of Many Truths.

For example, if you come from individualistic culture, one of your truths might be that it is your responsibility to voice your opinion to contribute to the group. If you come from collectivistic culture, your truth could be that it is your responsibility not to disturb the harmony of the group by voicing your opinion. In order for us to communicate effectively between these cultures, we need to start by learning and respecting each other’s truths.  

It has become crucial to develop and use specific competences to manage our diverse working relationships consciously and intentionally. They have become a key success factor for all of us in today’s business environment. 

In our work at Many Truths, we acknowledge, honour and listen to all our clients’ truths. By accessing all the truths in ourselves, in our relationships and teams, it is our mission to help clients unleash their full potential, improve their effectiveness and productivity and achieve excellence.

Masako Kato is the owner and driving force of Many Truths. She is passionate about 
helping people excel across cultural diversities. Originally from Japan, based on more than
20 years’ business experience in Japan, USA and Europe and professional education, she serves
her clients as coach, trainer and consultant.

Masako is an itim international (www.itim.org) certified intercultural management consultant. As such, she supports clients in developing their intercultural competences as individuals, teams and organisations. She is a certified facilitator of the Intercultural Readiness Check (www.irc-center.com ) of International Business Improvement (www.ibinet.nl). She uses this self-assessment tool of intercultural competences as a basis for coaching and training.

Masako is an itimfocus (www.itimfocus.org) certified organisational culture change consultant. As such, she diagnoses the present organisational culture and helps clients transform their culture so that it will accelerate their organisational effectiveness.

Masako is a trained Co-Active® Coach of the Coaches Training Institute (www.thecoaches.com) and an Organisation and Relationship System Coach ™(ORSC™) of the Center for Right Relationship (www.crrglobal.com). She is a member of the International Coach Federation (www.coachfederation.org).

Masako was born in Tokyo, Japan. She spent a few years of her childhood in Boston, USA.  She holds Bachelor’s degrees in Political Science from the Elmira College in New York, USA and in American Studies from the Nansen University in Nagoya, Japan. She holds a Master's degree in International Relations from the Sophia University in Tokyo.

After her study, she moved to the Netherlands and worked for Fujifilm in Tilburg for 16 years. At Fujifilm, she was responsible for Japanese expatriate management and was involved in various Human Resources Management projects. These included job, appraisal and compensation systems building, organisational development and corporate culture change, working with Dutch and Japanese management.

Masako joined the ITIM international network in 2003 as an intercultural and organisational culture management consultant. Her clients include both Japanese and European companies and organizations such as Fujifilm, Omron, Yokogawa, Teijin, Philips, ABNAmro, ING Direct, Boskalis, IHC Holland, Fluke, TEVA, Otto and TU Delft.

Masako has delivered her training and workshops in Europe, Japan and USA. She delivers training, consulting and coaching services in English, Dutch and Japanese.

Many Truths works closely with the professionals in her network as follows:



Other useful Links:
Intercultural Readiness Check (www.irc-center.com)
The Coaches Training Institute (www.thecoaches.com)
The Center for Right Relationship (www.crrglobal.com)
Team Coaching International (www.teamstrengths.com)
The International Coach Federation (www.coachfederation.org)
Japanese Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands (www.jcc-holland.nl)
Dutch Japan Trade Federation (www.dujat.nl)