CAREER
I’ve been an entrepreneur most of my life. After founding and exiting a consumer goods export business in the U.S., I came back to Japan to explore new opportunities in 1999. At the time, recruitment was a booming business and it looked like fun, so I tried it and I loved it. For me it was all about helping others find work they love and helping companies find the right people for their businesses.
After over a decade just doing recruitment, I realized that may people need more support in both career PLANNING and career DOING, so I started a career coaching practice in 2014, initially starting with 1:1 coaching and then I put together Happy Mondays and the Career Kaizen course to help as many people as possible with their career growth.
BUSINESS
I’m still actively recruiting marketing professionals, so I’m always speaking with both clients about high-impact hiring of marketing professionals and marketing candidates about their career goals, but in parallel I’m continuing to grow my career coaching work with Happy Mondays and the Career Kaizen Course, which I’m very passionate about.
The Career Kaizen Course is an elearning program for bilingual professionals in Japan which helps them learn the “Core 24” topics for career growth and job satisfaction. There are 24 separate topics based on my 20+ years of recruitment experience, and my belief is that if you learn about, study, and master over time these 24 topics, you’ll accelerate your career growth and find more joy in the work you do. To help people master the material, I’ve created an online and offiline community, the Happy Mondays Community, which brings together everyone who has bought the course so I can actively support them as well as having a community to support them too.
My goal is to help people ACHIEVE more, EARN more, and ENJOY their work more than they ever imagined.
VISION
My mission in life is to help others find work they LOVE and to help companies build teams of talented people. My vision is simple–I plan to continue recruiting and coaching bilingual professionals in Japan for at least then next decade. My goal is to sell 1,000 Career Kaizen Courses per year over then next 10 years, continue building the Happy Mondays online/offline community, and continue to actively recruit “future-proof marketing leaders” for my clients in Japan.
My vision also includes spending two months each year away from Tokyo doing a remote “workcation” month somewhere outside of Tokyo in Japan (Okinawa, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku, etc.) and somewhere else outside of Japan.
The most challenging part for me building the technical foundation required to support the future vision as a “solopreneur”. Sometimes I have to learn some very technical stuff for my websites, database, newsletter, video content creation, etc. I’ve been lucky to have the support of others, but a lot of times I have to figure things out for myself and overcome some high hurdles.
I’m always open to connect with ambitious and motivated professionals in Japan who want to learn as much as possible about designing their long-term career plan and then taking ACTION to make things happen.
the photographer : Matt Vachon www.mattvachon.com
PROFILE
I was born and raised in San Diego, California, first visiting Japan as a tourist in 1985. Japan was booming at the time and I decided to focus on Japan for my long-term career. I lived here during the Bubble Era, then returned to the US to go to graduate school at UC San Diego, then returned to Tokyo in 1999. I currently split my time between Tokyo and Onjuku, Chiba and love the ocean.
U.S. Citizen
Hometown is San Diego
BA in Environmental Studies, UC Santa Barbara
MPIA in International Management, UC San Diego
▼ Kaizen Course
www.careerkaizencourse.com
▼ Website
www.garybremermann.com
▼Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/garyb/
