Theory building
Framework design, academic writing, conceptual development.
People
Makoto Yamanaka
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DroR Corporation. She leads the practice side of the research-practice firm, embedded in client organizations.
ROLE MAP
Research and practice roles behind organizational transformation.
The English profiles show how research, implementation, and partner expertise connect around client transformation.
Center Client Transformation
Implementation
Client dialogue, field observation, operational design.
Specialized support
External expertise and implementation support.
Responsible practice
Confidentiality, transparency, and ethical review.
Profile
Makoto Yamanaka is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of DroR Corporation, a Research-Practice Firm based in Tokyo, Japan. She leads the on-site implementation of Clinical Organizational Science (COS), an integrative framework synthesizing complexity science, neuroscience, organizational psychology, and behavioral science.
Yamanaka's distinctive contribution lies in her clinical posture—being embedded daily in client organizations rather than consulting from a distance. This embedded engagement provides the empirical ground from which the COS framework was developed and tested.
| Position | CEO, DroR Corporation |
| Specialization | Organizational development, structural intervention, research-practice integration |
| Co-authored paper | Clinical Organizational Science (Frontiers in Psychology, 2026) |
| Location | Tokyo, Japan |
As a Practitioner
Yamanaka's work centers on continuous, embedded engagement with client organizations. Rather than diagnosing organizational issues from the outside and delivering prescriptions, she observes and intervenes from within—what the COS framework terms a "clinical" posture, drawing an analogy to bedside medical practice.
This positioning enables observation of the moment-to-moment relational dynamics, communication patterns, and tacit norms that constitute an organization's attractor state—dynamics that remain invisible to externally positioned consultants.
As a Co-author
The 2026 paper in Frontiers in Psychology (co-authored with Masaya Nakamori) presents Clinical Organizational Science as an integrative framework for structural intervention in complex organizations. Yamanaka's contribution to this paper is grounded in years of accumulated field observation. The theoretical articulation and academic writing were primarily led by Nakamori, with Yamanaka contributing the practitioner perspective and field validation.
From the second paper onward, Nakamori will serve as first author, while Yamanaka continues to anchor the practical implementation side of DroR's research program.
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