About
Practical. Collaborative. Agile.
Catalyst Strategies is a growth consulting firm with a track record of delivering top-line results for visionary executives in high-growth B2B technology and services companies.
Code crackers
We recognize patterns and crack the code on your top-line challenges—from crystallizing effective growth strategies to mobilizing the organization to deliver on your most important revenue acceleration initiatives.
Proven fixers
Our clients trust us with their hardest, hairiest issues. They call when they foresee huge gaps between their goals and what their teams are prepared to deliver. They call us when failure—or even partial success—is not an option.
Dot connectors
Our secret sauce: applying “revenue systems thinking” across sales, marketing, customer experience, customer success, and product. We get all cylinders firing on your growth engine to fuel aggressive, sustainable, and scalable growth.
Recognized catalysts
We know it takes more than a great idea to make growth happen. Our model for catalyzing outcomes is based on four principles:
- The unique opportunities and challenges of high-growth companies demand unique solutions.
- Cross-functional operating experience informs practical and actionable strategies that deliver results in today’s competitive environment.
- Collaborative solution design builds internal alignment and ownership—and ultimately drives results.
- Adaptation to our client’s needs, situation, resources, and timelines is critical to delivering value.
From leaders in established B2B technology and services brands to innovation economy up-and-comers, more than 85% of our clients have hired Catalyst Strategies more than once to help them tackle big growth challenges or hit ambitious revenue targets.
“Catalyst Strategies brought curiosity, creativity and expertise to help us build a highly compelling narrative that resonates with our customers and clearly articulates our competitive advantage. The Catalyst team’s commitment to our success has positioned our brand for unparalleled growth and impact in the market.”
—YANNIS DOSIOS
CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER, INTEGRAL AD SCIENCE
MEET OUR TEAM
Trish Hayward
Founder and Managing Partner
Mary Culley
Partner
Kim Huelsman
Principal and Chief Operating Officer
Sandra Miley
Principal
Susheela Vasan
Principal
Himanshu Choksi
Senior Advisor
Heather Dobbins
Consultant
Adele McLean
Consultant
Ashley Hallsted
Project Manager
Charla Radecky
Administrative Assistant
“I’d recommend the Catalyst team to anyone who needs to convert a daunting strategic challenge into a big win.”
—Linda Soldatos
SVP Marketing, Wells Fargo
GIVING BACK
Catalyst Strategies is a proud supporter of Save the Children
Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. 85% of every dollar we donate provides support to the world’s most vulnerable children—giving them a healthy start in life, protection from harm, and the opportunity to learn. It’s your support that gives Catalyst Strategies the opportunity to donate an average of 4% of annual pretax profits to this preeminent humanitarian aid organization.
“When we needed to make real improvements to our customer experience, Catalyst brought a disciplined and focused approach to solving the problem. They set us up for success.”
—Jay Ackerman
Chief Renewals Officer & EVP Customer Success, ServiceSource
Catalyst by the numbers
>20
Years since founding
300+
Successful growth projects
90%
Projects from repeat clients
GROWTH STRATEGY SUCCESS
Four months after working with us to tighten its strategy and refocus its team, a machine learning operations company raised a $43MM Series E at $450MM valuation.
GROWTH OPERATIONS SUCCESS
For the marketing team of a Fortune 10 enterprise technology firm, we revamped the GTM budgeting and planning process, speeding time to market by 30%.
GROWTH OPERATIONS SUCCESS
For the CMO of a $6B commercial bank, we designed and implemented a “PowerPoint-free” business review process leveraging OKR best practices and WorkBoard.
Committed to big,
aggressive growth goals?