CONSULTING

Our approach to consulting is provocative and dynamic. Our consultants come from the fields of advertising, strategy, executive coaching, sports performance, journalism, research, technology, sales, branding and communication. We diagnose quickly and offer lateral and practical solutions which get results fast. We keep being told there isn’t anything like this and that we make a real difference to how our clients' businesses and their teams think and work.

We’ve been in more pitches on both sides of the fence than most people will see in a lifetime. We’ve researched what works and what doesn’t all around the globe. In the process, we’ve helped our clients win many $ millions of incremental revenue at competitive pitch. As ‘Pitch Doctors’, we help organise the pitch process and work with the team throughout to pull them ahead of the competition at each stage and ensure a win. We have helped our clients to win the biggest pitches in multiple B2B sectors including investment banking, management consultancy, retail, advertising and real estate. 

We deliver bespoke and established training programmes. Our aim is to develop skills and talents that are applied in the business and which 'stick'. Our programmes have been described as positively provocative, create a sense of urgency and are highly effective at helping teams see issues with fresh eyes. Importantly the provocation comes with practical solutions and approaches.   We often make an organisation’s real business challenge the applied subject of the training, development or coaching experience. By doing so we generate solutions the team and the business can use immediately and many of our programmes pay back in income gains straight away.

We coach and mentor top, high-potential business leaders and the C-suite team. We work with individuals one to one as well as teams collectively – we have a strong track record in leadership development and in getting boards aligned. Our coaching and mentoring has been described as life changing and transformative and has turbo-charged the careers of many. 

We speak all over the world on the issues of human intelligence in a machine age, catalysing business relationships, winning new business, sales, impactful communication and seeing around corners. 

We deliver keynote speeches, chair panels, educate and entertain business audiences from Birmingham to Beijing. We also write cut-through speeches and coach presentation performances that get our clients talked about inside their organisations and also in the media. We’re good with words and on our feet. 

Whether it’s a board away day, developing a joined up strategic plan of action or an innovation workshop, we bring commercial acumen and business insight to our stimulating facilitation. (We even lecture on facilitation at Henley and London Business Schools and at  SCA - the world’s most successful advertising school.)

All our consultants are experienced facilitators. At Catalyst we take a collaborative approach to consulting. We work closely with our clients to understand their needs and develop solutions that are tailored to their unique challenges. Our approach is transparent, results-driven and designed to help businesses succeed. And, very importantly, our workshops are enjoyable and stimulating to take part in. 

We’ve done a ton of successful brand and business positioning work. From new concepts through to total re-brands of businesses in existing and new markets all around the globe. We create the full architecture from a brand key, through to mission, value proposition, positioning, values, tone of voice, key messaging and creative.

We have commissioned, managed and carried out market research in every sector and in over 30 countries. We can do it for you. But what organisations need to move forward is not just research per se. Human insight is the Holy Grail – along with the competitive advantage and confidence that comes with it. We consume published reports and proprietary research like sweets and derive the truths and opportunities inside them to stimulate thinking, reach conclusions and guide actions. We’re just as good at learning from limited data – conversations, workshops, interviews – and using them to move you forward faster.

We run two salon-style events a year. Because we want to encourage meaningful conversation around important subjects, we only invite a handful of senior business leaders and expert commentators. Our aim is to facilitate well informed conversations around important subjects – in our last London event we discussed AI, the role of gaming in strategy formulation and how to write impactfully. In Paris, we discussed whether or not persuasion is an art or a science. We also aim to help our participants forge useful and interesting connections with each other – the currency of these events is helpfulness.