SHE Inc.'s CEO Office Manager Mari Matsuo to be a finalist at "Publink Summit for JAPAN 2026 SPRING" Public-Private Co-creation Award
Mari Matsuo, CEO Office Manager of SHE Inc., which operates the women's career school "SHElikes," has been selected as a finalist for the "Public-Private Co-creation Award" at the "Publink Summit for JAPAN 2026 SPRING." She will present on SHElikes' project that supports women's reskilling across 47 prefectures to improve wages and close the gender gap.
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Mari Matsuo, CEO Office Manager at SHE Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO/CCO: Eri Fukuda), which operates "SHElikes," a career school for women that supports them from learning to working, has been selected as a finalist for the "Public-Private Co-creation Award." This award recognizes excellent initiatives that achieve both business growth and social impact through public-private collaboration beyond conventional boundaries. She will give a presentation at "Publink Summit for JAPAN 2026 SPRING," Japan's largest public-private co-creation conference, held on Saturday, May 16, 2026.
■ About "Publink Summit for JAPAN 2026 SPRING" Public-Private Co-creation Award
This is Japan's largest public-private co-creation conference, gathering approximately 1,000 officials from government ministries, local government executives, and corporate management. With the concept of "with Challenge," it is Japan's first attempt to promote co-creation for the future through sessions, workshops, and co-creation pitches.
The "Public-Private Co-creation Award" held at this conference honors initiatives by ministries, local governments, companies, and public-private joint teams that have achieved both social problem solving through public-private collaboration and business growth. Finalists selected through preliminary screening will give presentations on the day, and the Grand Prix winner will be decided.
【Public-Private Co-creation Award | Event Outline】
・Date: Saturday, May 16, 2026, 17:30-19:00
・Venue: Kioicho Conference
・Official Website: https://publink.site/publink-summit
【About SHE's Presentation】
・Presentation Title:
A project to improve regional wages and close the gender gap through Japan's largest women's reskilling support
・Presentation Summary:
Based on the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's "Reskilling through Career Up Support Project," SHE, with a community of over 250,000 members, provides integrated online support to women in all 47 prefectures, from acquiring over 50 job skills, including AI/DX, to job placement. By combining private educational know-how with government subsidies, it achieves income improvement and productivity expansion, unconstrained by place of residence, on Japan's largest scale, especially for women in rural areas where reskilling support has been difficult to reach.
■ SHE Speaker
Mari Matsuo | CEO Office Manager
Joined Recruit Holdings as a new graduate in 2016. After engaging in web direction, product planning, and service development in the IT planning department, followed by business strategy planning and business project promotion, she joined SHE Inc. in 2020 as Head of New Business. After launching the women's money school "SHEmoney" business, she oversaw "SHEmoney" and "SHElikes PRO Designer," a program aiming for designer job placement in 4 months, in the New Business Department from 2023. From April 2025, she was appointed Head of the Management Strategy Office.
■ About SHE Inc.
SHE Inc. was founded in 2017 with the vision of "creating a world where everyone expresses their unique value and lives passionately." Its main business, "SHElikes," offers creative skill lessons and coaching programs such as web design and web marketing, as well as job opportunities, to help everyone achieve their ideal way of working. Over 200,000 people have participated to date. Since 2021, it has also developed "SHEmoney," a service aimed at acquiring essential financial knowledge for realizing ideal careers and lives, and since 2023, "SHE WORKS," a job matching service connecting those who have learned at SHE with companies seeking immediate talent. SHE Inc.: https://she-inc.co.jp
【SHE Services】
SHElikes | https://shelikes.jp/landing_pages/jp_a/
SHEmoney | https://money.shelikes.jp/trial_lessons
SHE WORKS | https://sheworks.shelikes.jp/
■ About SHElikes
SHElikes is a career school for women where over 50 job skills that can be used regardless of time or place can be learned for a fixed monthly fee. It offers a wide range of digital and creative skills that can be learned with just a computer, such as web design, web marketing, and writing, supporting women in realizing their ideal way of working. Course videos can be viewed online via computer or smartphone, and it includes coaching, teaching, and communities where members can gather with similar goals and interests. SHElike
■ About "Publink Summit for JAPAN 2026 SPRING" Public-Private Co-creation Award
This is Japan's largest public-private co-creation conference, gathering approximately 1,000 officials from government ministries, local government executives, and corporate management. With the concept of "with Challenge," it is Japan's first attempt to promote co-creation for the future through sessions, workshops, and co-creation pitches.
The "Public-Private Co-creation Award" held at this conference honors initiatives by ministries, local governments, companies, and public-private joint teams that have achieved both social problem solving through public-private collaboration and business growth. Finalists selected through preliminary screening will give presentations on the day, and the Grand Prix winner will be decided.
【Public-Private Co-creation Award | Event Outline】
・Date: Saturday, May 16, 2026, 17:30-19:00
・Venue: Kioicho Conference
・Official Website: https://publink.site/publink-summit
【About SHE's Presentation】
・Presentation Title:
A project to improve regional wages and close the gender gap through Japan's largest women's reskilling support
・Presentation Summary:
Based on the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's "Reskilling through Career Up Support Project," SHE, with a community of over 250,000 members, provides integrated online support to women in all 47 prefectures, from acquiring over 50 job skills, including AI/DX, to job placement. By combining private educational know-how with government subsidies, it achieves income improvement and productivity expansion, unconstrained by place of residence, on Japan's largest scale, especially for women in rural areas where reskilling support has been difficult to reach.
■ SHE Speaker
Mari Matsuo | CEO Office Manager
Joined Recruit Holdings as a new graduate in 2016. After engaging in web direction, product planning, and service development in the IT planning department, followed by business strategy planning and business project promotion, she joined SHE Inc. in 2020 as Head of New Business. After launching the women's money school "SHEmoney" business, she oversaw "SHEmoney" and "SHElikes PRO Designer," a program aiming for designer job placement in 4 months, in the New Business Department from 2023. From April 2025, she was appointed Head of the Management Strategy Office.
■ About SHE Inc.
SHE Inc. was founded in 2017 with the vision of "creating a world where everyone expresses their unique value and lives passionately." Its main business, "SHElikes," offers creative skill lessons and coaching programs such as web design and web marketing, as well as job opportunities, to help everyone achieve their ideal way of working. Over 200,000 people have participated to date. Since 2021, it has also developed "SHEmoney," a service aimed at acquiring essential financial knowledge for realizing ideal careers and lives, and since 2023, "SHE WORKS," a job matching service connecting those who have learned at SHE with companies seeking immediate talent. SHE Inc.: https://she-inc.co.jp
【SHE Services】
SHElikes | https://shelikes.jp/landing_pages/jp_a/
SHEmoney | https://money.shelikes.jp/trial_lessons
SHE WORKS | https://sheworks.shelikes.jp/
■ About SHElikes
SHElikes is a career school for women where over 50 job skills that can be used regardless of time or place can be learned for a fixed monthly fee. It offers a wide range of digital and creative skills that can be learned with just a computer, such as web design, web marketing, and writing, supporting women in realizing their ideal way of working. Course videos can be viewed online via computer or smartphone, and it includes coaching, teaching, and communities where members can gather with similar goals and interests. SHElike