The Billion Dollar Coach Network

who are billion dollar coaches?

World class senior leaders, ready to serve your executive team.

Billion Dollar Coaches are former Global 5000 executives who have the unique capacity to work with top executive teams.

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Lance Tanaka

BDCN Director, founder of Lance Tanaka Group

As a master coach and founder of the Lance Tanaka Group, Lance offers world class executive coaching for the “best of the best”, the leading multinational and local companies in their respective industries throughout Asia-Pacific.

Since 2001, Lance has accumulated over 18,000 coaching hours of executives from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, US and Europe. He has coached:

• 900+ CEO, Partner, Managing Director, General Manager level executives from the top global firms.
• 600+ CEO, Partner, Managing Director, and General Manager executives from the top professional services and financial services firms.

Corporate Leadership Experience

From 1997 to 2001, as Vice President of International for Nike-Cole Haan working out of Hong Kong, Lance restructured and set up new operations in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Korea, Italy, UK, Iberia, Greece and France.

Lance held a number of senior positions in Pepsi-Cola International over a 15 year period:

• Managing Director of Pepsi-Cola and Salim Group Joint Venture in Indonesia.
• Vice-President of South Asia Pepsi-Cola out of Singapore.
• President of Pepsi-Cola and President Enterprises Joint Venture in Taiwan.
• Sales Director Tokyo Bottling Company in Japan.

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erik van alstine

BDCN Director, founder of Perceptual Intelligence®

Erik Van Alstine, founder of Perceptual Intelligence®, is a dynamic communicator and thought leader whose mission is to promote transformation in people and organizations around the world.

After graduating with an engineering degree from the University of Washington, Erik started an advertising communication company and grew it over seven years to near Inc. 500 status and multi-millions in sales before the age of 30. In 1999, Erik founded an internet publishing company that grew to 1.5 million readers in over 180 countries around the world.

Erik is the author of four works in the Perceptual Intelligence® Series, including Automatic Influence: New Power for Change in Work and Life, Radically Receptive: How to Love Feedback and Learn from Everyone, The Motivation Equation: A Formula for Change in a Challenging World, and Perceptual Intelligence: The Science of Mental Strength for a Highly Constructive Life.

Erik is founder of several companies, including a leadership consulting firm figure headed by Harvard Business School’s most recognized professor of leadership. Erik’s other companies have served several New York Times bestselling authors, company executives, and the largest retailers in the world.

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Rich Jasper

BDCN Director, CEO of Perceptual Intelligence®

Rich is a seasoned senior leader and Global 5000 executive with a passion to develop transforming qualities in leaders around the world.

For fifteen years, Rich served in leadership roles at Russell Investments, a leading global investment management and solutions partner with more than $300 billion of assets under management.

During those years, Rich served as Director of Business Development, earned the Russell Leadership Award, architected the Russell Advisor Network, and established the Russell Retirement Planning System.

In the years following his leadership at Russell, Rich has acted as the managing partner of Wealth Investment Partners, LLC, where he is actively engaged in executive coaching, leadership development, and consulting.

Rich has also served as an executive coach for Lance Tanaka Group and as an adjunct teacher of business leadership at Oxford.

Rich currently serves as the CEO of Perceptual Intelligence. He’s passionate about helping others grow in their leadership roles through coaching, mentoring, and organizational development.