Meet Catalyst Consulting Partners…
CATALYST CONSULTING PARTNERS, LLC | Since 2002
Bring Your DiSC® Vision to Life
We have been an Everything DiSC® Authorized Partner for decades and are a perennial Diamond Award winner, a premier award for Authorized Partners. If you are looking to introduce or expand Everything DiSC experiences in your world, we should talk.
Whether you want us to design and facilitate a DiSC workshop for you, or you prefer to facilitate your own DiSC sessions, we are here to support you. And if you are looking to become DiSC Certified, we are one of the select Everything DiSC Authorized Partners who offer certification courses leading to the credential of Everything DiSC Certified Practitioner. All of our DiSC Training Services are transparent and affordable.
Let’s connect and see how much impact Everything DiSC can have for you and your team. Get started with DiSC today!
Better Meetings. Better Results.
In addition to our Everything DiSC services, we provide expert Strategic Planning Facilitation services.
Strategic Planning | Growth Planning | Visioning
ACCELERATE GROWTH, ALIGN YOUR TEAM, INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY...AND MORE!
Strategic Planning, Growth Planning, Long-Range Planning, Visioning … whatever you call it, your organization needs to know where it’s headed and how it's going to get there. And everyone needs to be on the same page, to be aligned, especially members of your senior leadership team. You need to create STRATEGIC CLARITY, FOCUS and ALIGNMENT in your organization!
What Our Clients Say
A great facilitator for a new company that needed its leaders to get fully aligned
My organization recently started up and when we hit our 6-month anniversary, we felt it was important to engage in a strategy meeting but we wanted help. I spoke with several of Glen's former clients who couldn't speak more highly of the work that Glen did in helping them lay out their plans and get organizational alignment.
Two months later, Flying Phase is well positioned for the future, in large part because of Glen. He helped us get the 6 leaders squarely aligned on who we want to be, where we need to go, and what we need to do to get there in the next year. In addition to being an effective facilitator, everyone in the group really liked Glen and the resources he shared with us throughout our four half-day strategy sessions. We met once every week for a month; it ended up being a perfect cadence. We did some planning work in between sessions, coming into every meeting better prepared to tackle the next step. I am proud to say that we have clear imperatives, owners, and timelines that we are consistently executing on. Thank you, Glen.
Brett Ludden, President
Flying Phase
One of the Best Investments I’ve Ever Made
I hired Cynthia for several years when I was employed at Textron and leading its senior executive marketing council and senior executive communications council. Both groups were comprised of very diverse and opinionated executive leaders. Also in both groups were 2-3 individuals who tended to be argumentative and seemed to enjoy de-railing meetings and exploring rat holes. Bringing Cynthia in to help me plan our monthly meetings so that the meeting goals were achieved was one of the best investments I have ever made professionally. If you are looking for expert assistance to help you bring a group of people together around a vision, mission, goals or action plans: you will find no one better than Cynthia.
Adele J Suddes, Vice President
Textron
Action-orientated strategic planning that our whole team is bought into
Cynthia led our team through a strategic planning process that was tied to action steps and allocated project leads to ensure execution. These sessions added immeasurable value to our firm and forced us to take a step back and consider threats/barriers to continued growth. Her experience and facilitation style was supportive and non-intrusive - she catered to every member of our team and opened our eyes to some new opportunities.
Rachel Quinn, Managing Partner
3P Partners
Part Facilitator, Part Therapist, and Part Coach
I'm happy to report that I can now add another glowing testimonial to the others. Having experienced Glen's adept facilitator skills at our Executive Retreat, I can attest that all you've read about him is true. We were a group of 5 consisting of two Founders and senior management. We sorely needed to focus on our company's strategic planning for the next few years. There was no shortage of opinions, but with Glen's insight to keep us moving in a unified direction, we achieved consensus and buy-in. Not an easy task when two of the country's thought leaders in our industry are at the same table. Not only was Glen agile on his feet, but his follow-through & documentation provided a record of our discussion and a range marker to keep our goals & direction aligned as we move forward.
If you are serious about moving your group to the next level of success, I can highly recommend Glen to navigate the way. Part facilitator, part therapist and part coach, Glen kept us from standing in our own way, which happens so often when those close to the issues get wrapped around the axle trying to solve big problems.
Matthew Tove, Director, Marketing & Sales
InterActive Legal
FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER
Cynthia Waisner
B.S, M.B.A., Ph.D. in Leadership & Change
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I have over 20 years of experience in L&D, consulting, facilitation, coaching, and culture change. My mission — and my passion — is helping leaders, teams, and organizations spark transformation. I have worked with all types of organizations, including government, associations, manufacturers, and small and family businesses.
Combining tools from HR, OD, management, and behavioral science, I help clients make lasting decisions and achieve sustainable results.
Wal-Mart, NASA, Gucci…
My clients range from well-known organizations such as Wal-Mart, NASA, Gucci, The Centers for Disease Control and Stanford University to smaller businesses you may not know such as Williams & Williams, Cameron, CookShack, and Nutranext.
On the surface, these organizations may seem so dissimilar that you may wonder how I could possibly bring value to each of them. But the answer is simple. Every organization, regardless of size, location, industry or culture, holds important meetings — meetings that must be successful for the organization to grow and achieve its objectives. This is where my facilitation skills and broad business and leadership experience are leveraged by my clients to achieve breakthrough results.
MANAGING PARTNER
Glen Waisner
B.S (Mechanical Engineering), M.B.A.
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While spending more than 20 years on “your side of the desk” — first in the energy industry (where, among other positions, I was Vice President of Marketing for a Fortune 100 company), then as founder of a $65 million start-up, and later in Consumer Goods (as President of a midsize manufacturer with operations in the US and China) — I purchased a lot of professional services from some of the biggest names in the consulting, legal and accounting worlds.
For the most part, their work products were excellent. But their costs were such that I very carefully considered all of my options (and my budget) before picking up the phone to talk with them. After all, the “meter” was always running.
A Better Way…
Cynthia and I knew there had to be a better way. So we launched (full disclosure — she launched and I joined later) a firm specifically designed to provide a niche menu of professional services at reasonable, project-based rates. No time clocks, per-day, or per-hour billing. Low overhead costs. We want our clients to pick up the phone or shoot us an email or text without stopping to think “what is this going to cost me?”
Speaking of clients, my passion is working with senior leaders and their teams to facilitate and accelerate growth within their organizations (and themselves). This usually entails some combination of strategic planning, execution, and team development. Everything DiSC has been an important tool is this work for years.
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OUR APPROACH
The Catalyst Consulting Difference
Over the years, we have repeatedly heard several things from our clients regarding what they found uniquely valuable in working with us.
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We are a small organization, by choice. We long ago made the decision to remain focused and flexible, allowing us to work on a few projects at a time and provide the best possible facilitation, training, and consultation services on those projects. Each Catalyst Consulting client works with at least one of our two principals. This deep focus allows us to thoroughly understand our clients and their organizations. Often, our clients come to view us over time as valuable members of their teams.
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Both Catalyst Consulting principals have MBAs and broad business backgrounds, positioning us to engage credibly with C-level executives across industries and organizations. Ms. Waisner also has a Ph.D. in Leadership and Change. Our varied interests and backgrounds allow us to partner each project with the Catalyst Consulting principal most suited to the organization and its needs.
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Too often, facilitation is more about the facilitator than about achieving desired outcomes. We adjust our style and approach to the needs of the organization. The hard-charging, extremely fast-paced session that “works” for a Fortune 50 senior team may, for example, be all wrong in a university setting, where a more reflective, consensus-based style is appropriate.
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The adage “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” poses a significant risk when exploring facilitation and consultation services. Too many facilitators/consultants try to apply standard, often “proprietary,” methodologies to every project – regardless of fit. We continuously update our toolkit of approaches, methodologies, models, and processes so that we can bring the most appropriate solutions to bear for each client’s unique needs.