Tam Young Coach

Relocation coaching for Japan assignments

Your people land in Japan. I help them stay, settle, and perform.

Tam Young Coach provides contracted relocation coaching for employees and clients moving to Japan — the part of the move that logistics can't cover: settling in, family life, work culture, and building a life that lasts beyond the first contract year.

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Nagoya-based • Certified coach, 10 years • English and Japanese • Working with assignees, spouses, and families

The problem

Most failed assignments don't fail on paperwork. The visa arrives, the apartment is found, the boxes are unpacked — and then the employee or their family quietly struggles: isolation, school and daily-life friction, a spouse who never settles, a working culture nobody explained. That's when contracts get cut short, at full relocation cost.

Coaching covers the human half of the move — before, during, and after arrival — so the investment you've already made in moving them actually pays off.

What I offer — contracted programmes

Before they move

Preparation coaching for the employee and family: expectations, decision-making, what life in Japan is really like, and a plan for the first 90 days.

First 90 days in Japan

Settling-in coaching through the highest-friction period: daily life set-up, community and connection, work-culture adjustment, family check-ins.

Building the life

Longer-term integration coaching: career development in Japan, spouse and family adjustment, language and culture confidence, and staying well past year one.

Delivered 1:1 by video call, in English (Japanese where it helps), under contract to your company — per-assignee, per-cohort, or retainer.

Who this is for

I don't do visa filing or apartment hunting. I coach the people those services move.

Why Tam

Tam Young, relocation and career coach based in Nagoya, Japan
  • Certified life and career coach, 10 years in practice
  • Moved from Wales to Japan at 27 and built my family, business, and life here — this is lived experience, not theory
  • Based in Nagoya, working across Japan; sessions in English and Japanese
  • Already working alongside expat-services companies in Japan

How it works

  1. A short conversation about your assignees or clients and where they struggle
  2. A pilot — one assignee or one cohort, fixed scope
  3. A contract that scales with your Japan volume

Moving people to Japan is your business. Helping them thrive here is mine.

If your assignees or clients are landing in Japan, let's talk about the support they get after they arrive.

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info@tamyoungcoach.com