BNI Tokyo Launches Green Member Forum in Japan to Support More Business Growth

BNI Japan kick off its inaugural Green Member Forum held on 19th February, 2018, and invited Maresa Ng as keynote speaker, in building awareness and action in building successful business and network

Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan (February 19th, 2018) — In an effort to support BNI Members to grow more sustainable businesses, BNI organizes the Green Member Forum, to support good and contributing members to grow even more successful business that can benefit from growing a successful business network, through BNI.

During the inaugural Green Member Forum, Maresa Ng, Entrepreneur, CEO and Asia’s Top Business Growth Specialist, was invited to deliver a keynote speech, that addresses the key challenge that BNI members had in growing successful business networks.

Photo of Maresa (front & centre) with 600 BNI members, at Belle Salle Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan

Photo of emcees introducing the keynote speaker ~ Ms Maresa Ng

“BNI is a great platform that enables business owners and leaders to grow successful business network through referrals and word-of-mouth-marketing,” said Maresa Ng, CEO of ActionCOACH Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. “By teaching BNI members how to grow their businesses, this also enables them to leverage on the already vast network they have,” she added.

Business Network International (BNI) is an American franchised networking organization with around 227,000 members in 8,211 local chapters worldwide. Members meet weekly to discuss business and support each other’s businesses by sharing referrals.

Maresa Ng, is the leading Business Growth Specialist based in Malaysia, and one of the leading and award-winning business coaches in Asia, under ActionCOACH. Her online business building tools and programs have helped many entrepreneurs all over Asia, while she is one of the Master Trainers training new coaches in Asia.

Smiling faces taken with BNI Members after the completion of the event on 19th February 2018

Taken with ActionCOACH Coaches based in Japan

Taken with BNI Executive Director - Michitaka Otake, CEO of Asentiv Japan – Ayumi Ikeda, with our Rie (event translator)

According to Bloomberg, 8 out of 10 entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first 18 months. A whopping 80% crash and burn. This increasing failure rate is a worrying number. This worrying number has seen an urgent need for better education and awareness among the business community, to not only grow competitive networks and connections, but to also grow more competitive businesses.

About BNI Japan

BNI provides a positive, supportive, and structured environment for the development and exchange of quality business referrals. It does so by helping you build personal relationships with dozens of other qualified business professionals. To learn more about BNI in Japan, visit: http://www.bni.jp/ja/why_bni_english