ILC members have a unique opportunity to learn from Mike Hoseus, Toyota leaders, and local manufacturers in Lexington, Kentucky! Through a blend of workshop sessions and site visits, you’ll observe the principles of a high-performance culture. You explore several organizational development models, including the 4P model taught by Mike; this framework will explore how Toyota structures its purpose, people, process, and problem-solving efforts.

Your main takeaway will be your tailored individual and organizational action plan to take your learning and development journey to the next level of performance.

You will attend this workshop with individuals from across the United States. It is not an ILC-only event; ILC members receive a $500 discount. Log into the members-only area to obtain the discount code.

 

 

Participants will receive the following:

• Over 16 hours of executive leadership workshop sessions led by Mike Hoseus
• Printed course content, including a signed copy of Toyota Culture
• Tours of local manufacturing plants for hands-on learning, including Toyota and other local manufacturers
• Breakfast and Lunch (3 days)
• Dinner and Tour at Castle and Key Distillery
• Transportation to tour sites and Distillery
• You will receive pre-event materials and additional information directly from Mike Hoseus.

Via workshops and tours, participants will learn the following and will create tailored individual and organizational action plans to implement when they return to their organizations.

 

Purpose

• Developing Company Strategy
• Mission, Vision, Values
• Servant Leadership
• True North (Hoshin)

Process

• Cross-Training
• JIT (Hoshin)
• Standardization
• Value Stream Performance

Problem-Solving

• A3 Thinking
• Leadership Case Study
• PDCA / 8 Step
• TBP (Toyota Business Practice)

People

• Employee Engagement
• Hiring Practices
• Lean Culture & Core Competencies
• Lean Management System

 

View the past year’s agenda here – agendas vary little from year to year.

 

Logistics:

This event will be held in Lexington, Kentucky, from April 15-17. Please plan to arrive on Monday, April 14. Event accommodations and workshop sessions will be located at the Downtown Lexington Hilton, just 15 minutes from Lexington Blue Grass Airport (LEX), with planned site visits around the Bluegrass state. If flying, plan your return trip after 5 pm on April 17.

 

Attendees are responsible for their travel arrangements to and from the conference hotel. During the event, ground transportation between venues is provided. A link to discounted rooms at the Downtown Hilton will be provided approximately 60 days before the event by Mike Hoseus.

 

Attire during the event is business casual.

 

The registration fee does not include travel arrangements or hotel accommodations.

 

Seating is limited – REGISTER HERE

 

About our facilitator:

Mike is Executive Director for the Center for Quality People & Organizations (CQPO), an organization developed in 1999 as a vision of Toyota Motor Manufacturing to share Lean Quality philosophy and human resource practices with education, business, and community organizations.

 

Mike is an adjunct professor with the University of Kentucky’s Center for Manufacturing, the University of Dayton’s Center for Competitive Change, and a member of the faculty of Lean Enterprise Institute. Before CQPO, Mike was a corporate leader for 13 years at Toyota Motor Manufacturing’s Georgetown, Kentucky, plant, both in Human Resources and Manufacturing.

 

Mike currently supports organizations with Lean Culture transformations focusing on Executive Management and Human Resources roles and how the quality people value stream connects to the production value stream.

 

The Toyota Production System Support Center (TSSC)* experience will include

• 4-hour TPS Learning Session and Exclusive TPS Plant Tour presented by Toyota’s non-profit organization, TSSC*.
• Seeing & discussing ‘Specific’ TPS concepts, such as Stability, Jidoka, and Just-in-Time
• Seeing how Toyota uses these in their plants
• TSSC will share key learnings from sharing and building the TPS culture outside of Toyota for 30 years at manufacturing companies, government, and non-profit organizations.

*Toyota Production System Support Center, Inc. (TSSC) Each member of TSSC has >20 years of TPS experience at Toyota.

 

Testimonials from ILC members who attended the inaugural event:

“I was very excited to learn more about the culture at Toyota and to see a servant leadership model in practice, especially at such a large manufacturing organization. I reinforced that the model is doable and successful in any environment.”

 

“The content of Mike’s presentation was exactly what I was looking for. The factory tours were focused each time on something different so we could experience new things.”

 

“This not only taught me more about Lean but it gave me many tools to bring back to our company.”

 

“I went into this expecting to learn how to implement lean into our business. I got even more than I expected especially visiting the other plants. That really helped, to be able to actually see some of the things we talked about in class actually in action. Mike was a great teacher you can tell he is very passionate about lean and he broke things down very well.”

 

Listen to our Industry Iowa Podcast where we interviewed attendees about their experience here!

 

For more event details, contact Tracy Schuster at tschust@iastate.edu.

 

Cancellation Policy

Before 30 days – 100% refund

After 30 days – 85% refund

By 15 days – 50% refund

 

After 15 days – considered on a case-by-case basis minus a minimum of $600 which must be paid to the Toyota Production System Support Center per their cancelation policy.

 

Registrations can be transferred to another person in your organization at any time.

 

Hilton Cancellation: Free hotel cancellation 24 hours before scheduled check-in.