Tilo Schwarz

Active optimist, founder of the Kata Coaching Dojo, author of “Giving Wings to Her Team”, and former plant manager.

Tilo supports organizations and managers in successfully leading change and empowering their teams for improvement, adaptiveness, and superior results.

He was a plant manager at a renowned German power-tool manufacturer, where he and his management team started practicing Toyota Kata as part of Mike Rother's groundbreaking research in 2007.
By doing so, Tilo and his team established continuous improvement as a daily working routine throughout all processes and areas of the plant. That led to winning the A. T. Kearny manufacturing competition "Factory of the Year" and a WHU/INSEAD Industrial Excellence Award.

Tilo is the founder of the Kata Coaching Dojo® and the author of several books on coaching and Toyota Kata.