Catalyst Ranch’s
Creative Juice Blog
At times it feels like Catalyst Ranch is a revolving door of international thought leaders. Our clients, facilitators and guest speakers are some of the most influential and successful professionals in their fields. I'm constantly amazed by their achievements and always curious how they accomplish so much - so I decided to ask them! In this [...]
We're eleven days away from projectMUSIC and all of us here at Catalyst Ranch could not be more excited! Out of all the events we host every year projectMUSIC is definitely one of our favorites. On August 24th, Spirit Family Reunion will come to the Ranch to play a special private performance to benefit the kids of [...]
As a child, how many times were you told "Don't play with your food?" If you were a precocious and defiant tiny human like I was - then lots (I had a strange aversion to silverware). Well, Malaysian artist Hong Yi either didn't listen or she had very cool parents. Either way it worked out because [...]
Welcome back to #WeddingWednesday, our bi-weekly column where we bring you wedding tips, tricks, crafts, interviews and interesting Chicago wedding happenings. This week we sat down with Molly Schemper of Fig Catering and the Green Wedding Alliance to talk about GWA's upcoming event Brides on Bikes on Sunday, August 11th. The Green Wedding Alliance is a really exciting [...]
If you go back through notes from past meetings, I'd be willing to bet that somewhere amongst the bullet points are more than a few doodles (don't worry we won't tell). And I'd also be willing to bet that as a toddler, before you even knew what you were doing, you were drawing on every surface [...]
We're so excited to have Chicago Ideas Week back at Catalyst Ranch today for another Innovation Board luncheon. For those who aren't familiar with CIW, the organization was founded in 2011 with the purpose of bringing thought leaders from all over the world to Chicago to "provoke new ideas and inspire actionable results." They seek to create a forum where [...]
Loyal blog readers, when you logged on to Blog.CatalystRanch.com this morning (as I know you do so diligently every morning, right?) you may have noticed some minor (read: massive) changes. We have been working hard over the past few weeks with designer and guest blogger Kristin Neperud Merz to totally overhaul the old Catalyst Ranch blog and [...]
Today’s blog entry is guest written by Kristin Neperud Merz of www.unscribbled.com where she has been designing, branding and doing all things creative since 2000. Kristin also serves Catalyst Ranch as a Creative Strategist and is our designer of all things digital. You’ll be able to see some of her fabulous work in our website redesign [...]
It’s good ol’ #WeddingWednesday here at Catalyst Ranch, which means we’ve got weddings on the mind. Actually, we have weddings on our minds a lot (not just on Wednesdays) as we help people plan for their perfect day at the Ranch. One of the things we love about hosting weddings is that we get the chance [...]
We’ve written before about how the environment you work in directly affects your capacity for ideation, innovation and efficiency. Everything from company ethos on vacation to work hour flexibility. At Catalyst Ranch one of our core philosophies is that the physical world you work in is also one of the best sources for inspiration, especially when [...]