Catalyst Ranch’s
Creative Juice Blog
As you may have noticed, www.CatalystRanchMeetings.com got a major design overhaul. We completely revamped the entire site from top to bottom and came away with a site that is bigger, better, faster, stronger. We've loved all the great feedback we've gotten from our clients, facilitators, vendors and partners! We'll be using our blog as a space [...]
When Dilini Fernando, an Associate Brand Manager over at Miller and the winner of this years Cubicle Makeover Contest, submitted to us she mentioned that she is "expected to be at the epi-center of all things fun/hip/chic/Millennial but right now, my desk hardly reflects that." In designing her Cubicle Makeover Catalyst Ranch's Eva Niewiadomski and Lauren Smith [...]
Chicago Ideas Week is almost upon us! This wonderful week where ideas, innovation and collaboration flow freely is one of our favorite times of the year at Catalyst Ranch. But, with over 200 speakers and events you can't possibly attend everything there is to see. To guide you through the week we've asked our staff for [...]
You may remember that a few weeks back we had the pleasure of hosting world-renowned speaker, Mikki Williams at Catalyst Ranch. We already knew how amazing Mikki was, but her newest presentation, “Speak Loudly and Carry a Big Shtick,” blew us away and left us with some fantastic tips to become better speakers and presenters. Today's [...]
As anyone who has been to Catalyst Ranch knows, there is nowhere else quite like Catalyst Ranch. And now we are pleased to unveil our brand new website that highlights just how unique the Ranch truly is. The new site was created by our designer of all things digital, (and frequent guest blogger) Kristin Neperud Merz [...]
We're big fans of Mikki Williams here at Catalyst Ranch! In fact you may remember her from her event here back in May called "We Interrupt This Life To Bring You...". For those of you who couldn't make it out to that awesome workshop, Mikki is a multi-talentented, multi-hyphenate with big hair and even bigger ideas. [...]
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 [...]
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 which we will be unveiling soon! [...]
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 [...]