Nathalie Ishizuka is a Franco-Japanese from New York. She enjoys writing and capturing movement such as bull fighting in watercolor. Having had too many years of study in other areas of her life, she has refused any drawing or watercolor lessons. Instead, to teach herself, she learns from the work of artists she admires most. Moved by the writing of St. Exupery's The Little Prince, by the simplicity and humor of Jean-Jacques Sempe's Le Petit Nicolas, and from Savignac's unique ability to capture a single idea visually, she gathered the courage to illustrate a little series of her own with messages she holds dear.

Nathalie received her M.B.A. from Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) France, M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (administered in cooperation with Harvard), and a B.A. Political Science summa cum laude from Amherst College.


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The series Mom says, Dad says, Nat says is no accident. Ms. Ishizuka showed a passion for writing at an early age receiving both the Smith and Brown Book Award for writing and achievement. She continued her interest throughout Amherst college where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1992. Her 240-page thesis on the 1946 Japanese Constitution received the Doshisha Asian Studies Award and praise from Colonel Charles Kades, one of the Constitution's founding fathers.

After leaving Amherst, she joined her father, a Harvard trained Japanese psychiatrist to develop a new model of positive health. After working several years with Dr. Yukio Ishizuka, in 1995 a desire to extend assumptions about healthy human beings to other fields including economics, organizations and international affairs lead her to enroll in the Master's program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. As a graduate student in psychology, business, and law classes at Fletcher and Harvard, she applied the concepts (called LifeTrack) to both the firm and the nation-state. A number of Harvard Business School students preferred Ms. Ishizuka's application of LifeTrack concepts to the firm over the assigned reading of The Road Less Traveled. The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School published two of her working papers dealing with LifeTrack concepts: "Kissinger's role in the Middle-East " and "Negotiation Workshops Between Hostile Parties.

Ms. Ishizuka's masters thesis, "Is GATT a 'good' psychiatrist?,"resulted in a correspondence with Arthur Dunkel, head of the World Trade Organization in its critical years. A following paper, "Lessons from Preventive Health to Preventive Diplomacy," received the attention of former U.N. Secretary General Boutros-Boutros Ghali and the office of Kofi Annan, current Secretary General to the U.N. The paper won the Eisaku Sato Memorial Essay Award. Ms. Ishizuka was invited to the U.N. University in Tokyo to receive recognition for her work. Her innovative inter-disciplinary approach lead her to work with individuals from many fields and to receive the George A. Plimpton Fellowship for the study of social, economic and political institutions.

To continue her interest in applying the model to organizations, Nathalie Ishizuka pursued a Ph.D. in organizational behavior and industrial relations at the University of California (Berkeley) Haas School of Business. Her research during her first year focused upon the role of human behavior in Oliver Williamson's (candidate for Nobel Prize in Economics) theory of the firm and the Menninger Foundation's approach to mental health. In May 1998, she was awarded for her second year an NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) fellowship from the Berkeley School of Public Health, but by that time had concluded that to contribute something entirely new in the field of health and organizations, she would have to leave academia.

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