Build the operational system your manufacturing leaders are missing
FocusIn helps manufacturing and operations leaders build the routines, daily management systems, and people-development capability required to sustain operational excellence leadership. Our programs turn lean leadership concepts into practical behaviors leaders can use every day.
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Hosted by Mike Hoseus, former Toyota executive and co-author of the Shingo Award Winning book, Toyota Culture.
Leadership Benchmarking Events
October 13-15, 2026
Kentucky, USA
- Toyota Culture Workshop with Mike Hoseus
- Leadership Problem-Solving Simulations & Group Exercises
- TPS Plant Tour led by TSSC at Toyota Kentucky and visits to other manufacturers
2026
Munich, Germany
- Leadership and OpEx workshop sessions with Ben Hoseus
- Production tours at MAN Trucks, Audi, and BMW
September 21-23, 2027
England, UK
- Toyota Culture Workshop with special guest, Mike Hoseus
- Leadership Problem-Solving Simulations & Group Exercises
- Site visits at Toyota Lean Management Centre & Jaguar Land Rover
February 27-March 3, 2028
Japan
- With special guest, Mike Hoseus
- Visits to world-class plants and facilities
- Seminars, workshops, and group events
- Cultural immersion and deep-dive into operating norms
Previous Participant Companies
- Ameriqual Group
- Ball Metalpack
- Bosch
- CH Guenther & Son
- CID Resources
- Clariant
- Custom Foods
- Finlays
- Hitachi
- Humble House Foods
- Hyster-Yale
- Lejeune Steel Company
- O.C. Tanner
- Premier Research Labs
- Prevost
- Southwest Research Institute
Past FocusIn Events
April 14-16, 2026
Kentucky
- Toyota Culture Workshop with Mike Hoseus
- Leadership Problem-Solving Simulations & Group Exercises
- Site visits at Toyota, Big Ass Fans, and Hitachi Astemo
March 1-6, 2026
Japan
- Visits to world-class plants and facilities
- Seminars, workshops, and group events
- Cultural immersion and deep-dive into operating norms
October 14-16, 2025
Kentucky
- Toyota Culture Workshop with Mike Hoseus
- Leadership Problem-Solving Simulations & Group Exercises
- Site visits at Toyota, Big Ass Fans, and Hitachi Astemo
September 16-18, 2025
England, UK
- Toyota Culture Workshop with special guest, Mike Hoseus
- Leadership Problem-Solving Simulations & Group Exercises
- Site visit at Toyota Lean Management Centre
April 15-17, 2025
Kentucky
- Toyota Culture Workshop with Mike Hoseus
- Leadership Problem-Solving Simulations & Group Exercises
- Site visits at Toyota, Aichi Forge, and Hitachi Astemo
November 11-12, 2024
Munich, Germany
- Operational Excellence Workshops with Ben Hoseus
- Seminar on Advanced Manufacturing and Leadership Development
- Production tours at MAN Truck and BMW
October 15-17, 2024
Kentucky
- Toyota Culture Workshop with Mike Hoseus
- Leadership Problem-Solving Simulations & Group Exercises
- Visits to Toyota, Big Ass Fans, and Hitachi Astemo
June 11-13, 2024
England, UK
- Lean leadership and TPS workshop sessions
- Seminar on managing business risk, growth opportunities, and profitability
- Site visits at Toyota UK and Jaguar Land Rover Solihull
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Previous Events
April 21st & 22nd, 2021
Texas
- Lean Culture Workshop
- Leadership Problem-Solving Simulations
- TPS Best-Practice Sharing
Event Overview
The greatest challenge facing organizations today is not identifying improvement opportunities—it is building the leadership systems and organizational capabilities required to sustain them.
FocusIn provides senior leaders with direct exposure to world-class organizations, proven management practices, and a global network of practitioners committed to operational excellence and people development.
Through site visits, executive roundtables, and facilitated learning experiences, participants gain practical insights into leadership, culture, capability development, and continuous improvement that they can apply immediately within their own organizations.
- Practical examples of high-performance leadership in action
- Proven approaches to building cultures of continuous improvement
- Ideas for strengthening accountability and daily management
- Insights from executives leading transformation efforts
- Connections with peers facing similar organizational challenges
- Clear next steps for implementation within your organization
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Event Partners
The mission of CQPO is to establish a learning environment of mutual respect, which emphasizes problem solving, teamwork and continuous improvement practices that enable organizations to produce effective, efficient and defensible systems.
Get your team on the same page about the things that matter most.
Orchestra is a team-driven software that creates structure where improvement plans are made visible and accountable to others. Orchestra builds interaction between leaders and teams to create mutual alignment on development goals.
Process Capability Partners is an advisor to small and middle market manufacturing companies and has expertise in process and operations improvement.