Mirai Tamura

I started my career as a systems engineer, and later took on a wide range of roles, including planning and launching new services, as well as sales. Through these experiences, I realized that solving clients’ challenges requires more than system development alone. I wanted to define the best solution from the root of the issue, without being tied to any single offering, which led me to pursue a career in consulting.

I chose Baycurrent because it allows consultants to drive work end-to-end, from strategy through execution and implementation, while building expertise across domains rather than being confined to one area. I was confident it would enable me to leverage my past experience and broaden it further.

I want to become someone clients think of first and say, “Let’s just talk to Tamura-san for now.”
Of course, honing my expertise is important, but in today’s world, where issues are increasingly complex and interconnected, you never know from what angle a client’s challenge will come. That is why I aim to be a versatile, multi-skilled consultant who can respond to whatever comes my way.
To get there, I plan to make the most of Baycurrent’s one-pool model and proactively take on projects across different themes and industries. I believe each challenge I take on will add up over time until clients can say with confidence, “Tamura-san will know what to do.” With that in mind, I will keep committing myself to the work in front of me.

Since joining Baycurrent, I have worked on a wide range of projects, primarily in the energy sector. One project that stands out in particular was a large-scale, cross-functional transformation initiative launched in response to a government-issued business improvement order. The project's objective was to implement measures that would prevent similar issues from recurring.

At the outset, the organization was weighed down by the fact that a serious mistake had occurred, and the atmosphere on the ground was far from positive. In many ways, it was a project that required rebuilding momentum and restoring confidence in a team placed in a difficult situation.

What made the project especially challenging was the number of stakeholders involved. Most were people I was meeting for the first time, and because their roles and priorities differed, even when looking at the same materials, their understanding of the key issues would subtly diverge.
That is why I focused on aligning perspectives rather than pushing my conclusions or approach unilaterally. I took time to confirm, carefully and repeatedly, what people were anxious about and how fully they felt convinced. In many cases, even small details, such as word choice, or how I made a request, affected the level of cooperation, so I had to stay attentive down to the smallest points.

At the same time, it was essential to ensure that the client felt that we were working together, even though we were an external partner. Projects are a team effort and I consistently articulated the objectives and priorities, both to the client-side members and to my own team, so that everyone could face the same direction. To earn trust, I refused to stay within the boundaries of contractual role assignments; instead, I continuously identified and removed bottlenecks that hindered execution, such as unclear discussion points, missing materials, and stakeholder coordination, and pushed the work forward each time.

In the end, we were able to dispel the uncertainty and stagnation within the organization, rebuilding the project to the point where a sustainable framework for preventing recurrence was firmly in place. Hearing the client say, by name, "I'm glad Tamura was on this project," was an incredibly rewarding moment and gave me great confidence.

This experience taught me that even projects that begin under challenging circumstances can be turned around through steady consensus-building and disciplined execution. It has become a guiding principle for how I approach every project that has followed.

On my days off, I often take my dog to a park a little farther from home. Although I only started raising him about a year ago, he has become the center of my life. On weekdays, I try to work quickly and efficiently so that I can spend as much time with him as possible.