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:
Go Small or Go Home: Why You Should Shorten Your Meeting Attendee List
Quality vs. Quantity; a simple premise but with ubiquitous applications. In the realm of meetings, whether in-person or hybrid, it’s important to keep in mind when you begin your planning process how many people need [...]
Ranch Hand Spotlight: Mike Ropp
Ranch Hand Spotlight: Mike Ropp Catalyst Ranch is all about making sure you have the best meetings and events you possibly can and one of the most important ways that we accomplish that [...]
Unique Special Events
Unique Special Events Your wedding day is one of the most important in your life and it will be one you remember forever. But it takes an extra special bit of [...]
Catalyst Ranch Virtual Zoom Backgrounds
Catalyst Ranch Virtual Zoom Backgrounds Welcome all ye who [virtually] enter here! With a virtual attendance element being commonplace for all meetings and events these days, we've gathered here all our virtual Zoom [...]
Top 8 Offsite Meetings Hosted at Catalyst Ranch
Top 8 Offsite Meetings Hosted at Catalyst Ranch Catalyst Ranch is Chicago’s premier creative meeting space, but that doesn’t limit us to just hosting “creative meetings.” Our space was built to provide a [...]
Make More of Your Space: How Creative Meeting Setups Foster Possibilities
Make More of Your Space: How Creative Meeting Setups Foster Possibilities Necessity is the mother of invention. This has never held truer than in today’s climate. The ever-changing demands for safety and versatility around [...]
Get Out of that Hotel!
Get out of that Hotel: Maximizing the True Value in Meeting Offsite It’s the classic question, as posed by The Clash, “Should I stay or should I go?” This is the question meeting [...]
Throw Back to Move Forward: The Link Between Nostalgia and Creativity in Business
Throw Back to Move Forward: The Link Between Nostalgia and Creativity in Business In their study The mnemonic muse: Nostalgia fosters creativity through openness to experience published in 2015, Wijand A. P. van [...]
Environment Matters: No More Boring Focus Groups
Environment Matters: No More Boring Focus Groups If you’re reading this, then odds are you’ve been on one side of the two-way mirror or both. The focus group is one of the longstanding ways to [...]
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:
Go Small or Go Home: Why You Should Shorten Your Meeting Attendee List
Quality vs. Quantity; a simple premise but with ubiquitous applications. In the realm of meetings, whether in-person or hybrid, it’s important to keep in mind when you begin your planning process how many people need [...]
Ranch Hand Spotlight: Mike Ropp
Ranch Hand Spotlight: Mike Ropp Catalyst Ranch is all about making sure you have the best meetings and events you possibly can and one of the most important ways that we accomplish that [...]
Unique Special Events
Unique Special Events Your wedding day is one of the most important in your life and it will be one you remember forever. But it takes an extra special bit of [...]
Catalyst Ranch Virtual Zoom Backgrounds
Catalyst Ranch Virtual Zoom Backgrounds Welcome all ye who [virtually] enter here! With a virtual attendance element being commonplace for all meetings and events these days, we've gathered here all our virtual Zoom [...]
Top 8 Offsite Meetings Hosted at Catalyst Ranch
Top 8 Offsite Meetings Hosted at Catalyst Ranch Catalyst Ranch is Chicago’s premier creative meeting space, but that doesn’t limit us to just hosting “creative meetings.” Our space was built to provide a [...]
Make More of Your Space: How Creative Meeting Setups Foster Possibilities
Make More of Your Space: How Creative Meeting Setups Foster Possibilities Necessity is the mother of invention. This has never held truer than in today’s climate. The ever-changing demands for safety and versatility around [...]
Get Out of that Hotel!
Get out of that Hotel: Maximizing the True Value in Meeting Offsite It’s the classic question, as posed by The Clash, “Should I stay or should I go?” This is the question meeting [...]
Throw Back to Move Forward: The Link Between Nostalgia and Creativity in Business
Throw Back to Move Forward: The Link Between Nostalgia and Creativity in Business In their study The mnemonic muse: Nostalgia fosters creativity through openness to experience published in 2015, Wijand A. P. van [...]
Environment Matters: No More Boring Focus Groups
Environment Matters: No More Boring Focus Groups If you’re reading this, then odds are you’ve been on one side of the two-way mirror or both. The focus group is one of the longstanding ways to [...]
