Consulting and Coaching for leaders building a regenerative world

We work with corporations, startups, and individuals – to support them through meaningful transformation: business growth, global expansion, investing, innovation, sustainability strategy and beyond.

We live by our values of Kindness, Curiosity and Integrity.

Our approach is rooted in first principles and systems thinking, multidisciplinary and holistic.

Our vision – Regenerative Systems and Collective Wellbeing.

Eriko Suzuki Schweisgut
CEO and Founder of Kind Capital

 

Who We Are

With over 15 years at the intersection of finance, technology, social impact, and wellbeing — I am an investor, operator, and coach with a deep commitment to Regenerative Systems and Collective Wellbeing.

At Kind Capital, we integrate rigorous thinking with lived experience — based upon my own continuous inner work and growth.

Kindness that takes courage. Curiosity that drives growth. Integrity that demands embodiment. These are not values we display, but commitments we bring to every engagement.

    • Started career at Morgan Stanley Investment Banking Division, working on large scale M&A transactions, global offerings and IPOs.

    • Worked in financial planning for a luxury brand, and then launched the Japanese subsidiary of a Silicon Valley drone startup and became its Japan representative.

    • From 2016, has been active as a Venture Capitalist. Worked as Director of the Investment Group at Mistletoe, Inc. (Taizo Son’s social impact fund) and General Partner of global VC Fresco Capital. Most recently, participated in founding Japan's first ESG-focused venture capital firm MPower Partners, as Managing Director.

    • Serves as a judge and lecturer for numerous programs sponsored by large corporations, government agencies, and municipalities aimed to foster diverse entrepreneurs, including women, as well as programs related to social impact, environment, and sustainability.

    • Also runs MIKO Holistic Wellness, an innovative next generation wellbeing community, and is a mother of two children.

    • Raised in the United States, Canada, the Middle East and Japan.

    • Graduated from McGill University with a BA in Economics (Honors) and a minor in Mathematics and International Development Studies. While in school, worked for a World Bank affiliated non-profit organization in Kenya, Africa.

    • Author - "How We Live, Will Be How We Work" (April 2018, Daiwa Shobo).

    • Translation Author - "Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide To Changing Capitalism” (December 2021, (NewsPicks Publishing).

    • Harvard Business School Sustainable Business Strategy

    • Stanford University Art Thinking

    • Yale University Science of Wellbeing

    • Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (CRR Global)

    • International Coaching Federation ACC (obtaining)

    • INFORICH INC. (Public Company) - Independent Board Director

    • Kimura Unity (Public Company) - Independent Board Director

    • HR Brain - Independent Board Director

    • Uhuru Corporation - Independent Board Director

    • Dears Capital - Founding Partner

Kind Coaching™️

Pursuing something that feels almost impossibly big? Standing at the threshold of a decision that could change you life? Or simply wanting to return to your own true voice?

Kind Coaching™ supports going beyond intellectually understanding transformation — to living and embodying it fully.

When change is understood by our core, heart and in the body, including through breathwork, and deep inner alignment is achieved — outer success becomes inevitable.

The changes clients have made:

career reinventions, expanded impact, successful fundraising rounds, complete life renewals, futures they hadn't dared imagine — open, one after another.

Proprietary 4 Pillars of Kind Coaching™️

Across every client, every goal, every industry and life stage — the four pillars helps enable real, lasting change, and is distinct from all other conventional coaching. 

  • We support the deep remembrance of your purpose.

    Purpose is not so easily found — and should never be shaped by the pressures of the world or the expectations of others. What rises from your own interior is enough. And it need not stay small.

  • We support you in knowing and trusting yourself — because true self-trust is the precondition for every real breakthrough.

    And this confidence is not innate, but can be cultivated — through frameworks and practices, including working with the body directly through breathwork and other somatic practices.

  • We support you in building healthy boundaries which are not walls, but the foundation from which your vision grows and momentum builds.

    Genuine self-respect and honoring yourself, creates a win-win dynamic that extends outward — into teams, relationships, and results.

  • For leaders committed to real-world impact, the relationship with money is non-negotiable.

    We support changemakers, create an honest and authentic relationship with their own wealth and abundance.

    Whilst beliefs around wealth are shaped by past experience, emotion, and unconscious patterns, from a trauma-informed lens, we work at the root: building a clear, empowered relationship with abundance that serves your mission.

How Kind Coaching Works

Before we begin and at the close of our work together, a survey-based reflection marks the arc of your journey. Each 60-minute session includes a written summary memo.

All of this exists to make your transformation something you can feel, see, and build on.

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Kind Capital operates WellC — a Group Coaching organization whose core is the practice and exploration of Wellbeing.

WellC runs the LEAP self-transformation community, the Kind Coaching™ School (KCS)for the next generation of coaches, and hosts retreats that restore mind and body from the root.

We also design and deliver corporate wellbeing programs, workshops, and keynote sessions for organizations ready to invest in humans, at the centre of their strategy.

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Consulting Services

We appreciate the complexity of today’s business challenges.

We work pragmatically and creatively towards your ultimate objective and we will customize solutions to each companies’ stage, industry, and cultures.

Please feel free to make a casual inquiry!

    • Growth support such as below:

      • fundraising strategy

      • business development and building partnerships including cross border / market expansion into Asia and Japan

      • can be in the form of consulting/advisory or angel investments

    • Support for Sustainability, Wellbeing, DEI and ESG integration

      • overall analysis and strategy, trend reporting, developing frameworks and conducting workshops

    • Open Innovation

      • including launching CVC funds and establishing platforms for collaborating with global startups

    • Support for Sustainability, Wellbeing, DEI and ESG integration

      • overall analysis and strategy, trend reporting, developing frameworks and conducting workshops

  • Thematic writing, translation and speaking engagements on below topics:

    • #finance #technology #global

    • #venturecapital #angelinvesting

    • #wellbeing #wellness #futureofwork #futureofeducation

    • #consiousscaling #consciouscapital #socialimpact #ESG #sustainability #diversity

Write to us about any of the services you are interested in.

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Kind Words

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    "Working with Eriko is a privilege, and her unwavering positivity never fails to inspire."

    Founder and CEO of Global Mobility Tech Startup

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    “What sets Eriko apart is her remarkable ability to recognise the strengths in others."

    Co-Founder & Representative Director, Social Innovation Japan / Co-Founder mymizu

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    "Eriko's unique strength lies in her unwavering thoughtfulness in both her words and actions."

    Investor / Business Leader

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    “Eriko brings an exceptional blend of listening skills, empathy, and breadth of professional experience."

    Global Venture Ecosystem Builder

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    "Her coaching has helped me build self-compassion and believe in and express my authentic self."

    Transition and Wellness Coach and WellC Strategic Community Designer, former Consultant

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Kind Capital Updates

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    AVPN Social Investment Forum Japan 2023: Panelist

    2023/12/1

    Eriko, representing Tokyo Women in VC, participates in a panel discussion on closing the gender gap in Japan at a forum organized by the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network.

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    Forbes Discussion: Facts and Future of FemTech in Japan

    2023/11/30

    Eriko and Koichiro Ukai, Chief of NTT Com Smart Health Care Promotion Office, discuss FemTech and the different healthcare challenges in Japan.

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    Nikkei SDGs Forum Symposium: Discussion with Rina Sakai

    2023/10/30

    Eriko sits down with Rina Sakai, CEO of Fermenstation, to discuss startup companies that bring us closer to achieving the SDGs and the deepening awareness about the challenges that come with it.

  • NewsPicks x J-Wave: Explaining the US Anti-ESG Movement

    2023/10/6

    Description Eriko explains the background for the politicization of the term "ESG" and how the movement is still growing globally.

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Established July 2018

Office                                    Tokyo, Japan