DDM
Kata coaching
Added Value
At DDM Kata Coaching, we don’t believe continuous improvement should depend on consultants, workshops, or one-off initiatives.We’ve been inside organizations where improvement looked good on paper—but never stuck in daily work. Teams lost motivation. Leaders felt pressure to bring in external experts. And continuous improvement slowly became an Operational Excellence target instead of a way of thinking.We were there ourselves too.Everything changed when we discovered Toyota Kata and began practicing it daily. Through trial, failure, coaching, and reflection, we learned that sustainable improvement doesn’t come from knowing the solution—it comes from learning how to move forward step by step, every day.That insight became our mission.Today, we help leaders and teams who feel stuck, misaligned, or unsure where to start build strong problem-solving habits, align around a clear direction, and create a culture where learning and improvement happen naturally as part of daily work.We don’t add another tool.
We help people change the way they think, act, and lead.
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products
Toyota Kata
1. Become a Kata Master Coach
Regardless where you are in your Kata practice,- We help you understanding and mastering it
- Implementing it within your organizationWe do not organize a workshop to teach you how the practice should be run, we coach you repetitively, working on your current projects until you become a proficient Kata Coach while meeting your goals.
2. Toyota Kata Q&A
If you have specific questions regarding the Kata practice, we offer one-time meetings to answer all of them.
People Habits and Goals
3. People Habits to make Lean sustainable
This is for you if: - You struggle to make improvement sustainable
- The vision is written but not truly clarified
- Current situation is assumed rather than deeply understood
- Teams jump to solutions instead of learning step by step
- Improvement is episodic and habits do not formWe offer a routine where you will: 1. Clarify your written vision
2. Solidly understand your current situation
3. Learn your way forward, step by stepThis will help you move beyond Lean as a set of tools and start building lasting improvement habits — strengthening your culture, aligning your teams, and turning vision into daily practice.
4. Achieving sustainable Goals
We teach any person in your organization a structured way to adapt the patterns that create the desired outcomes.To achieve this, we, together: 1. Clarify your written vision
2. Solidly understand your current situation
3. Define the desired condition where you need to be next
4. List the obstacles preventing you to achieve that condition
5. Run one step at a time to achieve sustainable outcomesThrough deliberately repetition, we build a habit to drive through uncertainty and create the focus and alignment needed achieve sustainable challenges
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TEAM
Ronald Darling
Based in Michigan, USA
English
David Dominguez
Based in Germany
Spanish and English
Why us?
We focus on the people and their learning.
You build the coaching habit in the field, with your actual and current challenges.
We do not tell you what and how to do it and leave alone, but rather accompany you throughout the entire process.
We have a track record of over 6.000 Coaching Cycles & 6 years combined experience.
30+ years experienced engineers in manufacturing automotive factories.
