Adam Komisarof
Facilitator
Tokyo, Japan
JAJapanese
ENEnglish
Adam Komisarof, PhD is Professor of Intercultural Communication in Keio University’s Faculty of Letters and has taught Global Management in Keio Business School’s Executive and Graduate School Programs. He is Past President and a Fellow of the International Academy for Intercultural Research, and he has spent two sabbaticals as a Visiting Academic at University of Oxford (2012-13 and 2022-23). As a bilingual intercultural trainer (Japanese and English) and consultant, Dr. Komisarof has performed scores of workshops since 1997 for large companies and governmental organizations in the United States, Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia, and Europe. He has trained thousands of participants—from executives to new hires—in topics including effective intercultural communication strategies, assertive communication, presentation techniques, and building productive multicultural teams.
A widely sought public lecturer, Dr. Komisarof has given hundreds of invited lectures and workshops in 15 countries. He is the author of over 50 publications and four books about intercultural communication and acculturation, including the award-winning On the Front Lines of Forging a Global Society: Japanese and American Coworkers in Japan (2011), and most recently The SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Communication (2025). His research has led him to spend years interviewing and surveying businesspeople, as well as analyzing which practices work best to create positive intercultural communication and multicultural team effectiveness in the workplace.
Dr. Komisarof earned his B.A. from Brown University in the United States, his M.A. in Intercultural Communication from Antioch University, and his PhD from International Christian University (ICU) in Public Administration with a focus on intercultural communication in business. He has passed the first level of the Japanese proficiency test, was a certified Japanese teacher in the United States, and completed Keio University’s Program in Advanced Japanese Studies as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar.
Credentials
- MA in Intercultural Communication
- PhD in Intercultural Communication
- Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 1