011: Say Yes even if you aren't 100% confident with Sumie Yakamawa

011:Say Yes even if you aren't 100% confident with Sumie Yakamawa Today's Featured Global Woman: Ms. Sumie Yamakawa Sumie was born and raised in a small town in Aichi, Japan. Sumie came to Canada when she was 17 years old as an exchange student and she fell in love with this country!  After she graduated from a college, she has started working in a wine industry. She worked at a small winery at her first career and after 2 years of working with this winery, she got an opportunity to work with a mid-sized family owned winery where her real career experience begun. She was in charge of all the Asian tourist groups(i.e. Getting contract to bring groups to the winery, creating unique program, booking groups etc) After few years, she realized that there is a limitation to her career  if she worked for a family owned business and the only skill she had was that she speaks Japanese. That's when she decided to take sommelier program. During the sommelier course, she met her future colleague who helped her to move on to the biggest and most internationally known winery in Canada. She was still taking sommelier course when this great opportunity came and she decided to take it. After she working for 6 years with various positions, she  finally got  promoted to an Estate Manager at the winery. 海外で活躍するグローバルウ-マンになりたい！でも自信がない。 そんな日本人女性をサポートする毎月無料のニュースレター登録  毎月グロ-バルに活躍するためのお役立ちツ-ルを無料でプレゼントhttp://bit.ly/theemistylesignup     海外で働きたい、働いているグローバルウ-マンの集まる無料Facebook グループhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/theemistyle/   Want to learn more about today's Global woman and her advice? Check out the special offer and 日本語の紹介文 やインタビューのまとめを読みたい方はこちらをClick here 

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