At Catalyst Ranch, we’ve created an environment that stirs up inspiration and creativity, making corporate meetings infinitely more productive and weddings and special events wildly original.
Welcome to Creative Juice: the Catalyst Ranch blog, where you’ll find:
- our own insights into what makes creative magic happen at Catalyst Ranch
- activities and ideas you can use at home or with your colleagues, to juice up your imagination
- people, places and events around town that will feed your creative spirit
We’re glad to have you here. Now fill up your cup!
Our most recent posts:
A Five-Part Creativity Challenge
While our inspiring venue does wonders to incite creativity and innovation with our clients and guests, we encourage you to continue the creative exercise beyond the Ranch confines. So when we come across something [...]
10 Proven Tips for Meeting Coordinators to Boost Engagement
As meeting-success mavens, we have a specific set of fears that keep us up at night: An audience with blank stares. Multitasking attendees. Monotonous presentations. They’re nightmare situations we have in common with our [...]
Industry Networking Done Right: Revisiting OfficeNinjas on Administrative Professionals Day
On Administrative Professionals Day, 2025, we're reminiscing on the collection of evenings we were able to welcome OfficeNinjas to Catalyst Ranch and see first hand how a professional association perfectly executes networking and community-building. [...]
World Creativity and Innovation Week and CreativeMornings: Our Catalyst Ranch Creative Toolbox
It’s World Creativity and Innovation Week, April 15-21, and we at Catalyst Ranch are, as you can imagine, pretty chuffed. (We’re being worldly with our lexicon, too. 😉) This is a full [...]
Vote for Catalyst Ranch — in the Hospitality and Events SUMMIT Awards 2025
Click here to VOTE for Catalyst Ranch in The Summit Awards through Friday, March 28.Two votes per day per email address are permitted.The Hospitality-Tourism-Events Summit Chicago holds court in April, and the organizers have put [...]
Women’s History Month in Chicago
As a woman-founded and woman-owned company, Catalyst Ranch has always sought to lift up women. It’s a value that guides us in our private and public event booking as well as in the [...]
Ebony, Jet and Theaster Gates: Black History in Chicago
While February comes to a close, we again look to ways Black History can be celebrated all throughout the year, beyond Black History Month.As we’ve explored in years prior, Black History abounds in Chicago, [...]
Get Out of that Hotel!
This post, originally published in August of 2021, references a cost comparison chart that has been updated with current figures. Get Out of That Hotel! Maximizing the True Value in [...]
CREATIVE PROMPT: Me and Who?
Catalyst Ranch is more than just a meeting space. It’s the result of bringing together the myriad elements that make your meetings their most magical (Read: productive and satisfying). And one of the [...]
At Catalyst Ranch, we’ve created an environment that stirs up inspiration and creativity, making corporate meetings infinitely more productive and weddings and special events wildly original.
Welcome to Creative Juice: the Catalyst Ranch blog, where you’ll find:
- our own insights into what makes creative magic happen at Catalyst Ranch
- activities and ideas you can use at home or with your colleagues, to juice up your imagination
- people, places and events around town that will feed your creative spirit
We’re glad to have you here. Now fill up your cup!
Our most recent posts:
A Five-Part Creativity Challenge
While our inspiring venue does wonders to incite creativity and innovation with our clients and guests, we encourage you to continue the creative exercise beyond the Ranch confines. So when we come across something [...]
10 Proven Tips for Meeting Coordinators to Boost Engagement
As meeting-success mavens, we have a specific set of fears that keep us up at night: An audience with blank stares. Multitasking attendees. Monotonous presentations. They’re nightmare situations we have in common with our [...]
Industry Networking Done Right: Revisiting OfficeNinjas on Administrative Professionals Day
On Administrative Professionals Day, 2025, we're reminiscing on the collection of evenings we were able to welcome OfficeNinjas to Catalyst Ranch and see first hand how a professional association perfectly executes networking and community-building. [...]
World Creativity and Innovation Week and CreativeMornings: Our Catalyst Ranch Creative Toolbox
It’s World Creativity and Innovation Week, April 15-21, and we at Catalyst Ranch are, as you can imagine, pretty chuffed. (We’re being worldly with our lexicon, too. 😉) This is a full [...]
Vote for Catalyst Ranch — in the Hospitality and Events SUMMIT Awards 2025
Click here to VOTE for Catalyst Ranch in The Summit Awards through Friday, March 28.Two votes per day per email address are permitted.The Hospitality-Tourism-Events Summit Chicago holds court in April, and the organizers have put [...]
Women’s History Month in Chicago
As a woman-founded and woman-owned company, Catalyst Ranch has always sought to lift up women. It’s a value that guides us in our private and public event booking as well as in the [...]
Ebony, Jet and Theaster Gates: Black History in Chicago
While February comes to a close, we again look to ways Black History can be celebrated all throughout the year, beyond Black History Month.As we’ve explored in years prior, Black History abounds in Chicago, [...]
Get Out of that Hotel!
This post, originally published in August of 2021, references a cost comparison chart that has been updated with current figures. Get Out of That Hotel! Maximizing the True Value in [...]
CREATIVE PROMPT: Me and Who?
Catalyst Ranch is more than just a meeting space. It’s the result of bringing together the myriad elements that make your meetings their most magical (Read: productive and satisfying). And one of the [...]