Lauren Smith

Workplace Health & Wellness: Tips from Your Friendly Ranch Hands

At Catalyst Ranch, Chicago’s most creative meeting venue, we understand that to have a well-balanced meeting, you cannot forget about health and wellness.  We’ve been working with 4-Star Green-Certified caterer, Big Delicious Planet, for years to offer a variety of fresh, healthy meals to satisfy vegans, meat lovers, and everyone in between.  We’ve expanded our Continental [...]

Cubicle Makeover 2013!

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 [...]

5 Ideas Week picks from Catalyst Ranch

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 [...]

5 Tips To Become A Better Public Speaker

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 [...]

By |2018-04-26T16:55:41-05:00September 20th, 2013|Categories: Meet|Tags: , , , , , , , |

3 Tips to Increase Productivity

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 [...]

Pogo goes Bold in 2012

Jump into a bold New Year with Catalyst Ranch's 2012 Calendar 2012 marks a landmark in Catalyst Ranch history – the company’s 10th year of business. In celebration of this milestone, our Gala Girl, Lauren Smith, created a colorful calendar showcasing the many faces of our company mascot Pogo. He’s a world traveler and creative spirit [...]

By |2018-04-26T16:55:56-05:00January 5th, 2012|Categories: Catalyst Ranch, Creativity, Inspire|Tags: , |
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