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:
Chicago Ideas Week Keeps the Ideas Rolling
Chicago Ideas Week kicked off on Monday with Labs, Talks, MegaTalks and Partner Programs. I attended one of the talks that was held at the Chicago History Museum by some of Chicago’s innovators and explorers [...]
Getting social with Generation Y!
The global event Social Media Week hit Chicago for the first time from 9/19 - 9/23/2011 and Catalyst Ranch was in on the action! With such great local events like "Journalism in the Age of the Tweet" and "The Power of Social Media for Social Activism", we wondered where we might fit in. But with our passion for innovation and creativity, as well as invoking conversations no one else was having, we came up with the perfect event.
Easy Being Green
Green. To some it is just a color. To others it is a new way of existing. As our population grows so do our energy demands, which have a mostly negative impact on our planet. [...]
Catalyst Ranch teams up with Entertaining Company
We’ve teamed up with Entertaining Company to make your next special event at Catalyst Ranch scrumdilly-icious! As a preferred caterer, Entertaining Company creates a full-sensory culinary experience to highlight that next event within our walls. Entertaining [...]
From Drab to Fab….. Catalyst Ranch’s 2011 Cubicle Makeover
Margarita Zepeda, winner of our 2011 Cubicle Makeover Contest, was sure surprised when she walked into her fresh, new colorful workspace as the Catalyst Ranch Design Team put their finishing touches on the newly made-over [...]
Interview with Madeleine VanHecke, Lisa Callahan & Brad Kolar on their book “The Brain Advantage”
Madeleine VanHecke, Lisa Callahan & Brad Kolar "The Brain Advantage: Become a More Effective Business Leader Using the Latest Brain Research" What are some of the main themes of your book? An overarching theme of the [...]
Cure for Cubicle Blues…. 10 great ideas to Makeover Your Workspace
It's time for a cubicle makeover everyone can achieve! Considering the amount of time you spend inside it, set out to convert your workspace into a place you can look forward to and enjoy. Thinking [...]
Say goodbye to that boring cubicle – Enter Catalyst Ranch’s Cubicle Makeover Contest
Let’s get a splash of color going… Who says office cubicles need to be dreary? In honor of Administrative Assistant Day (April 27th), Catalyst Ranch will be sprucing up one lucky admin's office space. Send [...]
Celebrate World Creativity and Innovation Week with Juice-on-the-Loose April 18th
Today is the kick off for 2011’s World Creativity and Innovation Week, which runs through April 21st. This week is designed to encourage and inspire people to use their creativity to make the world a [...]
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:
Chicago Ideas Week Keeps the Ideas Rolling
Chicago Ideas Week kicked off on Monday with Labs, Talks, MegaTalks and Partner Programs. I attended one of the talks that was held at the Chicago History Museum by some of Chicago’s innovators and explorers [...]
Getting social with Generation Y!
The global event Social Media Week hit Chicago for the first time from 9/19 - 9/23/2011 and Catalyst Ranch was in on the action! With such great local events like "Journalism in the Age of the Tweet" and "The Power of Social Media for Social Activism", we wondered where we might fit in. But with our passion for innovation and creativity, as well as invoking conversations no one else was having, we came up with the perfect event.
Easy Being Green
Green. To some it is just a color. To others it is a new way of existing. As our population grows so do our energy demands, which have a mostly negative impact on our planet. [...]
Catalyst Ranch teams up with Entertaining Company
We’ve teamed up with Entertaining Company to make your next special event at Catalyst Ranch scrumdilly-icious! As a preferred caterer, Entertaining Company creates a full-sensory culinary experience to highlight that next event within our walls. Entertaining [...]
From Drab to Fab….. Catalyst Ranch’s 2011 Cubicle Makeover
Margarita Zepeda, winner of our 2011 Cubicle Makeover Contest, was sure surprised when she walked into her fresh, new colorful workspace as the Catalyst Ranch Design Team put their finishing touches on the newly made-over [...]
Interview with Madeleine VanHecke, Lisa Callahan & Brad Kolar on their book “The Brain Advantage”
Madeleine VanHecke, Lisa Callahan & Brad Kolar "The Brain Advantage: Become a More Effective Business Leader Using the Latest Brain Research" What are some of the main themes of your book? An overarching theme of the [...]
Cure for Cubicle Blues…. 10 great ideas to Makeover Your Workspace
It's time for a cubicle makeover everyone can achieve! Considering the amount of time you spend inside it, set out to convert your workspace into a place you can look forward to and enjoy. Thinking [...]
Say goodbye to that boring cubicle – Enter Catalyst Ranch’s Cubicle Makeover Contest
Let’s get a splash of color going… Who says office cubicles need to be dreary? In honor of Administrative Assistant Day (April 27th), Catalyst Ranch will be sprucing up one lucky admin's office space. Send [...]
Celebrate World Creativity and Innovation Week with Juice-on-the-Loose April 18th
Today is the kick off for 2011’s World Creativity and Innovation Week, which runs through April 21st. This week is designed to encourage and inspire people to use their creativity to make the world a [...]