George Ogata

Senior Agile ENgagement Manager at Takeda Pharmaceuticals

George Ogata graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in biology and a minor in music. He is currently a Senior Agile Engagement Manager at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, having been an Agile practitioner, coach, and promoter for nearly two decades. As a musician in the Greater Boston area, George founded the MIT Summer Philharmonic Orchestra in 1995 as Music Director and Conductor and is also Conductor of the Reading Symphony Orchestra.

George came across the Foundation for Philosophical Orientation in 2020 via his interest in John Boyd’s OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) loop and found the philosophy of orientation to deeply resonate with his work and life. He has attended numerous seminars by the FPO and co-taught himself two seminars on leadership and orientation.