4 Step Improvement Kata: Step 3 – Next Target Condition & Obstacles with Tracy Defoe

Tracy A. DefoeKata Coach, Consultant, Community Builder, Researcher, Program Developer, Educatorspecializing in learning at work.Tracy Defoe is co-founder of Kata School Cascadia and Kata Girl Geeks. Both are growing coaches and building the kata community world-wide. Tracy helps Tilo Schwarz with the Kata Dojo Masterclass, too.Her consulting company is called TLFI The Learning Factor. She aims to be smarter about learning.Tracy Defoe is a Canadian adult education consultant and researcher specializing in workplace learning. She is a proud Kata Geek and a humble lean practitioner. When her first client, Teleflex Canada, (now Dometic Marine), invited her to help them teach continuous improvement, she set herself the challenge of taking all the waste out of the ‘push’ lean training they were using. She built the modules of what would become the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters program TeamTime™ around questions. When Mike Rother’s Toyota Kata book came out in 2009, a consultant who saw that like Mike, Tracy was teaching people to ask questions, study learners, and never give answers, put her in touch with early kata practitioners in the Pacific Northwest. Since a Kata Meet Up in early 2010, Tracy has been learning, coaching and sharing her experiences with the Improvement and Coaching Katas. Tracy’s clients have led her to help them with continuous improvement and culture change, front-line worker and supervisor skills, strategic planning and executive development. Tracy is keen on customization and on supporting informal peer-led learning. Tracy Defoe has a BA in French and a MA in Education (Curriculum and Instruction) from UBCwhere she started her career in English as a Second Language education. A consultant to business, labour and government, Tracy Defoe is President of TLFI The Learning Factor Inc. and a very part-time instructor at Capilano University in British Columbia, Canada. www.thelearningfactor.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracydefoe/Link to claim CME credit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3CME credit is available for up to 3 years after the stated release dateContact [email protected] if you have any questions about claiming credit.