My name is Tomomi Sasaki. I'm a designer and coach, seeking to build strong teams, healthy workplaces and useful products.

I am partner at the independent design studio AQ, bringing product strategy, design research and facilitation skills to customer and employee experience challenges. Past clients include major players in the tech industry (Google, Airbnb, Coinbase) and multinational corporations with a Japan connection (ASICS, Toyota Motor Europe, Sony).

I am interested in how we design the conditions for independent-minded individuals to grow and thrive together. To that end, I work on capacity building and instrumentation for decentralized organizing with the collective Greaterthan, and host a group coaching program called Emotions at Work.

Based in Paris since late 2014, I'm often on the road in Europe or bopping around my hometown Tokyo.

From Apr 2009 to Mar 2012, I was Japanese Language Editor for the citizen media initative Global Voices Online, writing to shed insight on cultural and social issues from the Japanese blogosphere.

I have a background in multi-database research, professional Japanese/English translation skills, and used to be an editor for Japan’s largest art and design information site, Tokyo Art Beat. I served on the Board of Directors for its parent organization, Gadago NPO until early 2021.

I was born in Japan, spent my childhood in sunny California, and lived in Tokyo for almost two decades.

My name means 'beautiful friend' :)