Tilo Schwarz

Tilo Schwarz is a leadership coach, author, and founder. He 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 2006.

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 operational excellence competition “Factory of the Year” and a WHU/INSEAD Industrial Excellence Award.

Tilo is co-founder of the Campus for Leaders at the University of Applied Science Ansbach and the author of several books on coaching and Toyota Kata.