The presentation team is made of up some of the most experienced TWI practitioners and coaches. Learn from them during breakout sessions, experientials and keynotes. But, just as important, learn from them (and each other) over coffee, lunch, or in a hallway conversation.
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Oscar Roche
What 3 questions might this workshop answer for an attendee?
Tilo Schwarz + Tracy Defoe
What 3 questions might this workshop answer for an attendee?
Brandon Brown
Join us for an in-depth conversation, guided by experienced TWI masters. This is a great opportunity to explore more advanced topics with your peers. The meet-up is not designed for those new to TWI (only those who have practiced it).
A fun warm up for the summit! In the spirit of sharing, networking and growing community – join us for multiple 5-minute mini presentations complimented with group discussion.
Jim Huntzinger w/ Hosts Betty Gratopp + Oscar Roche
Betty Gratopp
Pat Geary
Dr Lou Flaspohler
Mark Rosenthal
Agata Pawlukojc
Oscar Roche
Are your wheels are turning... let's chat!
William Harvey
Thomas Bouraoui
Craig Stritar
Harmony Gist
Brandon Brown
Now that your wheels are turning... let's chat!
Join adult educator and kata coach Tracy Defoe to tackle a simple process in your own hands with Starter Kata practices.
Already a coach or an experienced Learner / Improver? Come to refresh the basics and reset the foundations of Improvement Kata practice.
Brand new and curious? This workshop will help you start right.
In 90 minutes you will work your way through the steps of the Improvement Kata - on your own or in a team - to study and improve your process to lay down a series of playing cards in a customer ordered pattern. In particular you will understand the challenge, grasp your initial current condition with run charts and block diagrams, set at least one next target condition and experiment against obstacles to reach it. We will also practice reflecting from what happens and record microlearnings. This fast paced workshop will send you home with the basics to build on or to share. Don't be late!
'Making do’ refers to a situation where a task is started without all required inputs, and/or keeps going when one or more required inputs stops being available.
‘Making do’ leads to much of what we commonly refer to as ‘waste’ (in a system). Thus, being a root cause of ‘waste’, perhaps we should go after ‘making do’? (Peter Drucker said “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all”.)
Attend this session and:
• Learn more about ‘making do’ and see it.
• Be introduced to the concept of ‘normal’ within Work Standards.
• Practice application of Work Standards principles via a ‘making do’ workplace simulation.
If you're staying at the Embassy Suites - grab a cocktail from their complimentary cocktail hour!
You should be coaching, they say - but nobody helps you to get better at it?
Coaching is becoming a core skill for anybody entrusted with a leadership role, and many organizations require managers to coach their teams.
Although we might be coaching every day, chances are high that we are not as good as we need to be, and we are not even getting better at it. Repetition doesn’t make perfect; it makes permanent. Michael Jordan put it nicely: “You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way.”
This is where the Kata Dojo supports with a quicker and more effective approach to develop coaching skill with individuals as well as throughout all management levels of an organization.
The Kata Dojo provides a sports-like approach where coaches can repeatedly practice a series of specially designed training exercises and role play in a safe offline environment. This setup allows coaches to hone their skills through repeating coaching situations at a much higher frequency than would occur in reality.
Experience an approach that has the potential to take your coaching skills to the next level. The Kata Coaching Dojo – where practice meets perfection, and leaders evolve.
Find out more at www.kata-dojo.com.
In this hands-on session you will …
• Experience how the Kata Dojo works.
• Deliberately practice coaching in a multi round Kata Dojo exercise.
• Take away several coaching-hacks that you can apply immediately.
Who should attend
• Anyone enabling and coaching others to master challenges.
• Managers who want to coach their teams for superior results.
• Change managers and consultants, looking for a method to train coaches more effectively and scale effective coaching throughout their or their clients organization.
One of the primary failure modes of continuous improvement is “implementing the tools” without understanding their underlying purpose – to create a workplace where deliberate practice to strive toward perfection is the primary activity.
We will discuss the importance of reference standards for creating deliberate practice, then dive into how the classic lean tools actually turn the workspace into a practice field every day, every cycle.
Trina Lima + Elizabeth Giandomenico
Wayne Meyer
Cathy LaMontagne
Raaghavan Venkatram
James Clark
Rudee Depasse + Jason Shampo
Hugh Alley
Wes Rawlings + Rudy Garcia
John Batten
Cheryl Jekiel
Tracy Defoe
Campus for Leaders
Tilo is an author, former plant manager, and co-founder of the Campus for Leaders at the University of Applied Science Ansbach. He has written several books on coaching and Toyota Kata and invented the Kata Coaching Dojo.
Between 2006 and 2013, being plant manager at a German power tool manufacturer, Tilo and his team participated in Mike Rother’s research that lead to developing Toyota Kata. Through practicing Toyota Kata they established continuous improvement and a coaching management approach as a daily habit on all levels of the plant.
That lead to winning the A. T. Kearny manufacturing competition “Factory of the Year“ and a second place in the WHU/INSEAD Industrial Excellence Award.
You can find Tilo at www.tiloschwarz.com or email him tilo.schwarz@lernzone.com.
Oscar Roche works closely with clients to realize organizational change, develop people capability and meet business improvement goals. He believes the long-term success of any business lies in the development of it’s people.
This belief, combined with extensive operations management experience, helps him add value to every organization he works with. Oscar holds a Bachelor of Applied Sciences. His diverse sector expertise includes training, logistics, FMCG, chemicals, beverages and food. Having run his own business and worked in various manufacturing roles for many years, he keenly appreciates the competing pressures modern firms face.
A results driven lean director and manager with over twenty years experience implementing lean manufacturing and continuous improvement. Deep understanding of the Toyota Production System with proven ability see any organization’s potential, cut to the core issues, gain “buy-in” and get things moving by engaging the entire team to develop solutions to impact the bottom line. An effective change agent who facilitates the process of discovery.
Specialties: Lean Manufacturing implementation in brown field or green field operations.
Operations Excellence · Leadership Team Training and Development · Study Missions · Strategy Development · Value Stream Mapping · Taming ERP / MRP Systems · Supplier and Supply Chain Development · 3P · Kaizen · Heijunka · Kanban · Work Cells · A3 Problem Solving
Always seeing the possibilities.
Rheumatologist; Division Director of Rheumatology at The Christ Hospital
Lou Flaspohler, MD, is a practicing rheumatologist in Cincinnati, OH, serving as the Division Head of Rheumatology at The Christ Hospital. He graduated with a B.A. in Communications Arts and Marketing from Xavier University and obtained his Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Cincinnati. Following his medical school training, Lou completed an Internal Medicine residency at The Christ Hospital and a Rheumatology Fellowship at Indiana University at the medical campus in Indianapolis, Indiana.
It is Lou’s deep belief that helping foster and build, servant led, purpose driven, evolutionary organizations (organizations which work to develop people as opposed to developing people to work) will do vastly more to improve the wellbeing of our nation and world than any pill, surgery or treatment western medicine will ever devise.
