Tom Tischhauser is the founder and principal of Wynstone Partners, an executive coaching firm working with high impact leaders and company boards. The charter of the firm is to improve business performance through the development of key leaders. Tom’s P&L, general management, and functional experience, provide the strong background leveraged in leadership development. Global business, expatriate, and M&A experience complement his leadership and business skills. Tom and his team work closely with executives using everyday issues as vehicles to improve performance.

Prior to starting Wynstone Partners, Tom held the position of Vice President and General Manager of the Continental Automotive Systems Group. Before Continental, he was Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Motorola Automotive Group.

Tom brings international experience gained from his expatriate assignment in Wiesbaden, Germany, where he was the European General Manager of Motorola’s Automotive Group. Prior to Tom’s expatriate assignment in Europe, he held the positions of Business Director and Director of Group Quality at Motorola’s Energy Systems Group and Director of Strategy for one of Motorola’s business divisions in Northbrook, IL. He was also responsible for the automotive business groups in Shanghai China for both Motorola, Inc. and Continental, AG.

Tom has been a featured speaker for many business, university, and community events and has coached individual leaders and teams from the US, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. He is a former board member for Kimball Electronics (KE) and Kimball International (KBAL), and currently sits on the board of FinTurk, Inc. Tom holds an engineering degree from Cornell University.