Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is an expert in facilitating such a leap and transformation through the innovative use of the Zen-inspired Socratic method designed to produce breakthroughs in thinking, knowing, and being.

Native of Japan, Genku is former ordained Zen Buddhist priest, a philosopher, reality theorist, transdisciplinary researcher, and consultant and advisor to leaders in business, science, and cultural organizations.

He has been called “a philosopher of change” by his peers and recognized as one of the most original and visionary thinkers and theorists in the field of integral philosophy. He is renowned for his ability to integrate advanced Western scientific and mathematical thoughts with the intuitive wisdom of Eastern metaphysical and metapsychological traditions to bring about profound change in the way in which people think and be.

From 1998 to 2002, Yasuhiko Genku Kimura served as Executive Director of The Twilight Club/The Society of the Arts and Sciences, originally established in the late-1870s by Herbert Spencer, Ralph Emerson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, John Burroughs, Oliver Wendell Holms and other prominent Americans for the purpose of ethical and cultural upliftment of the world.

During the same period, he also served as Director of The University of Science and Philosophy (The Walter Russell Foundation). He published a quarterly magazine (16 issues total) that was dedicated to the modernization of the visionary work of Walter Russell (1872 — 1963) in the integration of science and spirituality, ethics and aesthetics, and vision and action. He also organized and directed eight (8) bi-annual conferences on the themes of integrating vision with action, ethics with business, and science with spirituality.

In 2003, with Dr. Glenn Olds (philosopher, university president, Ambassador to UN Economic Council, and special assistant to four U.S. presidents), he co-founded Vision-In-Action (501(c) organization), an action-oriented ‘sapient circle’ of thought leaders, as the 21st-century version of The Twilight Club/Society of Arts and Science, for the express purpose of developing and implementing new, creative, innovative, and transformative solutions to problems and challenges facing humanity.

In 2005, he established Vision-In-Action Leadership Institute (LLC), for developing spiritually-aware, intellectually-sovereign, ethically-integrated, and ecologically-conscious leaders of the world in all walks of life. While consulting individuals and organizations, he developed and delivered a three-year applied philosophy course, Authentic Thinking for Creative Evolution (ATCE), attended by hundreds of individual participants from around the world, and acclaimed for its originality, philosophical depth, and transformational power.

In 2015, Mr. Kimura co-founded The B Future Forum (BFF) with Rafael Steinhauser (CEO, Qualcomm Latin America) and Alec Oxenford (Founder, letgo, inc.)—an annual forum for future-creating dialogue, discussion, and thought-exchange. BFF has been held in Berlin, Germany, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the themes of “The Future of Creativity”, “From Multiculturalism to Transculturalism”, “Healing the World, Healing the Self”, and “The Future of Art and Technology”.

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is author of eight published books and well over two hundred essays, papers, and articles in fields ranging from metaphysics, spirituality, ethics, science, consciousness studies, and systems theory to futurism, business, leadership, communication, strategic thinking, and organizational development.

His translation of ancient Chinese and Japanese classics includes Lao Tzu’s Tao Teh Ching (道徳経), Sun Tzu’s The Art of War (兵法), Zen Master Dogen’s The Treasury of Illumined Visions (正法眼蔵).

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura has lectured and given courses and workshops on wide-ranging subjects throughout the United States and around the world, including Japan, Singapore, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, South Africa, Brazil, and Argentina.