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Tilo Schwarz -- Management Trainer and KATA Coach

Tilo works as Management Trainer and KATA Coach and supports organizations and managers to successfully lead change and continuous improvement. In the past 15 years Tilo has focused his work on leading change and increasing
target-orientated problem solving ability within teams and organizations.

Between 2006 and 2012, being plant manager at Festool GmbH, he introduced the Toyota KATA as main problem solving- and management-pattern. Together with his management team he established continuous improvement as a daily working routine throughout all processes and areas of the plant. This lead to winning the 2008 A. T. Kearny manufacturing competition plant of the year＂ and a second place in the WHU/INSEAD contest industrial excellence award＂ in 2011.

At Festool GmbH he also led the corporate development department introducing continuous improvement into all areas of the organization focusing on hoshin-kanri policy deployment as well as the areas of marketing, sales, services and R&D.
Before Festool he worked as project manager for optical measurement machines and holds a master of mechanical engineering in mechatronics.