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:
Innovation, Necessity and Shoes
Here at Catalyst Ranch many of our clients come here for brainstorming and innovation sessions. Sometimes they are developing brand new products, other times it’s to improve upon preexisting ones. Either way, it’s easy to [...]
Administrative Assistants Get Creative For Our Cubicle Makeover Contest!
Happy Admin Appreciation Day! It’s always one of our favorite times of year: a time to celebrate all the hardworking gals and guys that keep our offices running without a hitch! We like to reward one very [...]
Thank you for spending World Creativity & Innovation Week 2013 With Us!
We had a great time hosting Juice on the Loose for World Creativity & Innovation Week, featuring three inspiring workshops from creativity thought leaders David Kaiser, Jill Wachholz, and Adam Shames! For more pictures, click here.
Making A Creative Shift (Adam Shames)
The following post is written by Juice on the Loose facilitator Adam Shames: Read more about Adam’s musical story, click the picture In my mid-twenties, I did not believe I [...]
Meet Jill Wachholz: a facilitator for Juice on the Loose – World Creativity & Innovation Week 2013
Get to know Jill Wachholz, GroupStir principal, and one of our workshop leaders for Juice on the Loose – World Creativity and Innovation Week: Who am I: I’m an experimenter, explorer, and evolver… seeking to [...]
Jill Wachholz on Capitalizing Project Learnings (Juice on the Loose SNEAK PEEK!)
Facilitator and coach Jill Wachholz shares tips to capture and capitalize on what was learned from a project or initiative. (if viewing via email, watch the video here.) See her in action at our World [...]
Reinventing the Qualitative Research Space
Our whole philosophy at Catalyst Ranch is based on new ideas sparked from a creative, non-typical space. Over the last few years we’ve expanded our business into the qualitative research industry and have been delighted [...]
Catalyst Ranch Proudly Supports Marriage Equality!
With cases of marriage of equality hitting the Supreme Court today, we couldn't help but get nostalgic and reflect on the many same-sex couples who have started their lives together here at the Ranch. Whether [...]
Is Inspiration More Dependent on People or Places?
The debate about “working from home” continues. Last week, Chicago Ideas Week shared the video “World of Work,” a conversation between 37Signals co-founder and CEO Jason Fried and James Warren of The Daily Beast/Newsweek. (if [...]
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:
Innovation, Necessity and Shoes
Here at Catalyst Ranch many of our clients come here for brainstorming and innovation sessions. Sometimes they are developing brand new products, other times it’s to improve upon preexisting ones. Either way, it’s easy to [...]
Administrative Assistants Get Creative For Our Cubicle Makeover Contest!
Happy Admin Appreciation Day! It’s always one of our favorite times of year: a time to celebrate all the hardworking gals and guys that keep our offices running without a hitch! We like to reward one very [...]
Thank you for spending World Creativity & Innovation Week 2013 With Us!
We had a great time hosting Juice on the Loose for World Creativity & Innovation Week, featuring three inspiring workshops from creativity thought leaders David Kaiser, Jill Wachholz, and Adam Shames! For more pictures, click here.
Making A Creative Shift (Adam Shames)
The following post is written by Juice on the Loose facilitator Adam Shames: Read more about Adam’s musical story, click the picture In my mid-twenties, I did not believe I [...]
Meet Jill Wachholz: a facilitator for Juice on the Loose – World Creativity & Innovation Week 2013
Get to know Jill Wachholz, GroupStir principal, and one of our workshop leaders for Juice on the Loose – World Creativity and Innovation Week: Who am I: I’m an experimenter, explorer, and evolver… seeking to [...]
Jill Wachholz on Capitalizing Project Learnings (Juice on the Loose SNEAK PEEK!)
Facilitator and coach Jill Wachholz shares tips to capture and capitalize on what was learned from a project or initiative. (if viewing via email, watch the video here.) See her in action at our World [...]
Reinventing the Qualitative Research Space
Our whole philosophy at Catalyst Ranch is based on new ideas sparked from a creative, non-typical space. Over the last few years we’ve expanded our business into the qualitative research industry and have been delighted [...]
Catalyst Ranch Proudly Supports Marriage Equality!
With cases of marriage of equality hitting the Supreme Court today, we couldn't help but get nostalgic and reflect on the many same-sex couples who have started their lives together here at the Ranch. Whether [...]
Is Inspiration More Dependent on People or Places?
The debate about “working from home” continues. Last week, Chicago Ideas Week shared the video “World of Work,” a conversation between 37Signals co-founder and CEO Jason Fried and James Warren of The Daily Beast/Newsweek. (if [...]