EB (Barry) Keehn, PhD, PsyD.

Dr. Barry Keehn is a highly popular and engaging facilitator with three decades of industry, governmental, and academic experience in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Africa. As a trainer, he primarily works with Americans to increase their effectiveness with the Japanese. As a management consultant, he works with high-performance executives and on transcultural organizational psychology.

In the private sector, he has worked with major Japanese manufacturing, financial, trading houses, and entertainment organizations. Currently, as well as a cross-cultural trainer, Barry is a psychologist working with individuals and groups on well-being and performance issues. He has assisted Korn/Ferry International with executive assessments and performance reviews and provided assessment services for Social Security and the Veteran’s Administration.

Barry has coordinated research projects and taught in a number of academic and research settings, including Cambridge University, the Japanese Prime Minister’s Office, the Research Institute of the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (Gov. of Japan), the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Tokyo, Japan), and the National Institute for Research Advancement (Tokyo, Japan). His writings on Japan have appeared in such venues as the Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, the National Interest, The Times of London, the Japan Policy Research Institute, the Brookings Institute, the Encyclopedia Britannica and This Is Yomiuri.

He has conducted programs and briefings on Japan for clients such as Toyota, Toshiba, Amgen, Boeing, Epson America, Lucas Aerospace, Mitsubishi International, IBM Europe, Verizon Wireless, Toyota Financial Services, Landis+Gyr, and the British Commonwealth Secretariat. He has worked closely with executives and government officials on issues of policy, personnel development, and organizational design on both sides of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and is the past President of the Japan America Society of Southern California.

Dr. Keehn received his B.A. in Asian Languages from the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science, with an emphasis on Organizational Theory and East Asian affairs, also from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been the recipient of two Fulbrights for research on Japan. Mid-career he added a doctorate in Psychology from the American Behavioral Studies Institute.