The Kata School is a central source of information, guidence, resources, networking, & support for people who are practicing the Improvement Kata & Coaching Kata or are interested in understanding more about this powerful approach to teaching & enabling scientific thinking. Our aim is to help people everywhere practice more scientific ways of thinking & acting, thereby developing ourselves & our community to tackle business & life challenges & disruption toward the best we can imagine and beyond. Our Mission To support the practice of Toyota Kata to improve; ourselves, our businesses, schools, hospitals, non-profit’s, local authorities, communities & even countries by unleashing innovation, developing professionally & personally through applying the scientific method, encouraging motivation in our workplaces & doing it all in a way that is sustainable Our Vision Throughout the UK the Improvement Kata & Coaching Kata’s are being used daily to realise the full potential of our people, our organisations, our communities & our country. What is Kata? The KATA is a process of conscious, structured practice to develop a scientific way of thinking & acting. It helps to better address the challenges of the 21st century, such as rapid change & the increasing uncertainty & complexity that exists in our world. The Kata were codified by Mike Rother of the university of Michigan from observing the culture of continuous improvement & how leaders taught people to think at Toyota & has since been adapted to become common around the world in service companies, hospitals, local authorities & schools as well as the traditional manufacturing. The Kata routines are structured routines, patterns or ways of doing things that are practiced continuously so that the patterns become habits and allow us to develop new skills and mindsets through scientific thinking.