Leadership Course

Kata Mindset

Transform the way your team works, learns, and grows.

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Apr 23-25, 2025
$1,800
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Location:

Ann Arbor, MI

Schedule:

8:30am-4:30pm ET
Oct 27-29, 2025
$1,800
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Location:

Kalamazoo, MI

Schedule:

8:30am-4:30pm ET
May 22, 29 & Jun 5, 12, & 26, 2025
$1,300
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Location:

Synchronous over Zoom

Schedule:

Five 2-hour check-ins • 1:00-3:00pm ET

Course Summary

Learning Objectives

Course Overview

Credentials

Instructional Team

Course Summary

Go Blue Discounts
Instruction Time Completion Time CEUs
In-Person 3 days Canvas access ends after 30 days 2.75
Remote-Live 5 days Canvas access ends after 30 days 2.75
Discover new pathways and propel improvement efforts forward through deliberate structure and routine by employing the Kata mindset. Toyota Kata is a systematic approach that builds habits, allows practitioners to trust their own scientific thinking, and enables the capacity for learning, experimentation and creativity. By engaging leaders as coaches, there is an opportunity to connect the frontline work to the highest organizational objectives. Teams can focus on workable challenges that require a culture of learning. Beginning at the executive level, these culture shifts evolve through the work of daily practice and are as much a means as they are an end result of deliberately developing organizations.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the relational and performance impact of the intersection of mindsets, skills sets, and tool sets
  • Reframe problems and opportunities into workable challenges aligned with strategic priorities that pull people and performance toward their potential
  • Connect all levels of an organization through deliberate and purposeful learning patterns
  • Discover leadership coaching fundamentals that build, bridge, and connect teams to future organizational possibilities
  • Design a strategic plan to cascade the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata through your organization

Course Overview

In this course, participants will practice reframing problems into challenges aligned with clear strategic priorities and breaking them down into actionable patterns to be understood and carried out at all levels of an organization. Participants will practice the Improvement Kata and the Coaching Kata to awaken scientific thinking and to learn coaching fundamentals for leaders. This course is highly interactive and is based on experiential learning, participatory design, and collaboration.

Ann Arbor Course: Zingerman's Mail Order Practitioner Day

Location: 
610 Phoenix Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48108

  • Tour of Zingerman’s Mail Order (ZMO), an online gourmet food shop and successful Kata practitioner
  • Practice Improvement Kata & conduct coaching cycles using real work
  • Q&A with ZMO employees and coaches

Kalamazoo Course: Location

92 E. Michigan Ave, Galesburg, MI 49053

Who Should Attend

Industry leaders, change agents, and interdisciplinary teams navigating the challenges of bridging strategy to operational change in complex systems such as government, nonprofits, and healthcare industries.

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Instructional Team

Toni Benner

  • Lead Faculty
  • Lean Specialist and Instructor, Michigan Engineering Professional Education
  • Founder and Lean Transformation Coach, Healthcare 2020

What's next?

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