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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 creative environment that’s the polar opposite of your average office space in order to shed conventional paradigms. It was also created [...]
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 in-person meetings has been a challenge for meeting planners as we respond daily to new requirements and considerations. At Catalyst Ranch [...]
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 Tilburg, Constantine Sedikides, and Tim Wildschut hypothesized that nostalgia fosters creativity. Long story short, they were right! They could have saved [...]
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 gather feedback on your products and services. That real life interaction with your buyers helps you determine what’s really important, confusing, [...]
How Furniture and Décor Tell Your Story Our furniture is a witness to our everyday lives, celebrations, conversations, and our growing up and leaving home. The furniture we grew up with connects us to home, family, friends, and reminds us of our dreams, our moments of triumph and the pains we’ve encountered along the way. [...]
Familiar Faces Return to Catalyst Ranch! With our rooms seeing more and more businesses coming back for meetings, we're proud to be busy enough to bring on additional staff. And naturally, we're elated to welcome our wonderful former team members back to the fold! Allow us to reintroduce two of our returning staff: Let’s give a [...]
10 Reasons Why Meetings Are More Effective At Catalyst Ranch Time and again, clients tell us that their meeting at Catalyst Ranch was wildly productive and extremely satisfying. (Just look at our Yelp reviews!) But what alchemy is behind these consistent results? What are the ingredients that make the magic? What do we do that makes [...]
The Transformational Leadership Retreat: Adding Purpose to Your Catalyst Ranch Meeting Businesses are emerging from the past year and needing guidance in how to change their work culture for today; that’s where a Transformational Leadership Retreat comes in. In the past we’ve hosted our friend, executive coach Jackie Sloane, for these retreats as a [...]
Time for Team Re-Building: When and where to activate face-to-face team building As the number of vaccinated people continues to increase each day and the pace of re-opening accelerates exponentially, businesses large and small are grappling with many logistical challenges. But one of the most urgent is the need to re-build their teams and strengthen team [...]
As our former morning shift manager, Danielle Erby is likely a familiar face to you. What you may not know is she’s also the entrepreneur behind Madame of Coco, a new food business serving Chicago delectable sweets, and the newest addition to our esteemed catering vendors! Kira recently chatted with Danielle to shine a spotlight [...]
