Koko Nakahara is an HRD consultant in Yokohama, Japan. In early 2002, she incorporated the company Instructional Design, based upon her career in developing training and performance management solutions for leading Japanese and foreign companies, including Citibank and Microsoft, and her professional commitment to advancing this field of expertise to meet the critical needs of Japanese companies to develop and manage their human resources and human capital. Instructional Design is instrumental to helping Japanese corporations absorb and digest the best practices of advanced HR systems and training and performance concepts, such as HPI, and seek solutions to improve their human resource development and organizational practices in ways that are acceptable to Japanese society. She has been a chairperson of the ATD Global Network Japan since 2010.