About the Talk

Sony Pictures first began its Servant Leadership journey a few months into the global pandemic. Since then, this way of leading has been avidly adopted in the firm. To accomplish this, they developed a deeply engaging 2-hour course on servant leadership, and over 15% of the company has taken it. More importantly, hundreds of graduates went on to enroll in their innovative 10-month follow-on cohort program. This grass-roots movement went global, jumping over to sister company Sony PlayStation.

Learn how the journey started, why they created the course and cohort program, how the pandemic crisis accelerated the program rollout, and the impacts on business agility at Sony.

Sony Pictures first began its Servant Leadership journey a few months into the global pandemic. Since then, this way of leading has been avidly adopted in the firm. To accomplish this, they developed a deeply engaging 2-hour course on servant leadership, and over 15% of the company has taken it. More importantly, hundreds of graduates went on to enroll in their innovative 10-month follow-on cohort program. This grass-roots movement went global, jumping over to sister company Sony PlayStation.

Learn how the journey started, why they created the course and cohort program, how the pandemic crisis accelerated the program rollout, and the impacts on business agility at Sony.

About Nadya

Nadya Ichinomiya serves as Head, Agile Center of Excellence at Sony Pictures Entertainment, working with teams, executives, and the C-suite to transform their work to be more effective, more human, and more fun.

After starting her career at IBM in sales and management, at age 27, she became Vice President of Electronic Data Systems in Frankfurt as the highest-ranking woman in the region and the youngest VP in a global enterprise of 117, 000 employees. From computer screens to movie screens, Nadya changed course and rebooted her career as a Hollywood producer.

After five years working with Bonnie Hunt in both movies and TV (as a producer on ABC’s Life With Bonnie), she returned to the corporate world, beginning in TV Distribution at MGM.

In 2014, Nadya co-founded the Women In Technology: Hollywood organization (WiTH) and serves as chairwoman of the non-profit foundation. WiTH is a cross-media and entertainment initiative with 6000+ members from the major studios. She also serves on the board of these non-profits: Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) and Warrior Films (makers of Hoop Dreams), filmmakers who inspire social change through transformational solutions.
Nadya holds a business degree from USC and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.