Transformation Design Firm
About Catalyz
Our team has over 40 years of collective experience building teams and programs, leading organizational change at scale, and empowering individuals to design and deliver innovative products, services, and workplaces. We believe that successful change is rooted in strategy and culture, and that by engaging both employees and leaders in adaptive leadership and the human-centered approach of Design Thinking organizations can develop cultures that don’t fear change, but lean into it together.
Our Vision
We envision a world in which the people, companies, and services we interact with are deeply customer-centric, innovative, and prepared for the accelerated rate of change and transformation of the 21st century.
Our Mission
To help organizations transform using a design-based and human-centered approach.
Our Approach
We partner with client teams through a combination of embedded coaching, on-call support on strategic projects, and facilitated workshops.
Leadership Team
Ben Grossman-Kahn
CEO & Co-Founder
Ben is the CEO and co-founder of Catalyz. He has an M.ED in Learning, Design and Technology from Stanford, is a graduate and former lecturer and coach at the Stanford d.School, and has 11 years of experience leading teams and developing programs that support innovation and cultural transformation. Prior to Catalyz, Ben was the Founding Director of the Nordstrom People Lab, and co-founded the Seattle Design Thinking and Innovation Collective. Ben has worked with clients ranging from Kaiser Permanente, Nordstrom, Starbucks, Amazon, Capital One, Wiley, the California Health Care Foundation, the Pokemon company, and Delta Dental of Washington.
Esther Armstrong
Principal
Melissa Chevalier
Creative Director
Zachary Smith
Co-Founder Emeritus
Tim Schmuckal
Principal
Connect
Curious in learning more? Please send a note to hello@catalyz.io to set up a time to talk!