---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000833444-26-000040"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JCI"
cik: "0000833444"
company_name: "Johnson Controls International plc"
filed_at: "2026-05-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T00:10:04.942348+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Johnson Controls EVP Lei Schlitz to depart by Oct 1, 2026 in operating model change

## Summary
- Lei Schlitz, VP & President, Global Products & Solutions, will leave by October 1, 2026.
- Departure is part of a planned transition due to changes in the Company's operating model.
- Ms. Schlitz is entitled to severance under the Company's Severance and Change in Control Policy for Officers.
- No successor named; role scope will be revised as part of the operating model changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000833444-26-000040
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JCI
- cik: 0000833444
- company_name: Johnson Controls International plc
- filed_at: 2026-05-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833444/000083344426000040/0000833444-26-000040-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833444/000083344426000040/jci-20260501.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000833444-26-000040
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000833444-26-000040.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000833444-26-000040.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lei Schlitz departed as Vice President and President, Global Products & Solutions at Johnson Controls International plc.
  - Action: leave
  - Role: Vice President and President, Global Products & Solutions
  source text: On May 1, 2026, Johnson Controls International plc (the “Company”) and Lei Schlitz, the Company’s Vice President and President, Global Products & Solutions, determined that Ms. Schlitz will leave the Company as part of a planned transition made in connection with changes in the Company’s operating model that will result in a revised scope of the position Ms. Schlitz currently occupies.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833444/000083344426000040/0000833444-26-000040-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.