by Danny Bernardo | Mar 21, 2013 | Catalyst Ranch, Creative Spaces, Creativity, Meet, Meetings
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 reading from email, click here to view...
by Danny Bernardo | Mar 19, 2013 | Catalyst Ranch, Creativity, Innovation, Meet, Meetings
As we prepared for our friend Brendan Sullivan’s workshop Why Didn’t We Think of That? Ideas for Generating a Culture of Innovation in Your Workplace on March 21st, I couldn’t help wonder what my own “Why didn’t I think of that?” moment...
by Eva | Mar 14, 2013 | Authors, Catalyst Ranch, Consultants, Creativity, Innovation, Meet, Meetings
We’re very lucky to meet some of the coolest people at the Ranch. One such person is our friend Brendan Sullivan is a creativity coach. Not only does he work with such clients as PepsiCo, Kelloggs, and GE, he also facilitates our Art-Work partnership with The...
by Eva | Mar 12, 2013 | Catalyst Ranch, Create, Inspire, Meet, Meetings
We were so honored to join the many nominees of this year’s Illinois Meetings + Events Magazine 8th Readers’ Choice Awards on Thursday March 7, 2013. Some of the meetings and events industry’s biggest movers-and-shakers gathered at the...
by lauren | Dec 7, 2011 | Catalyst Ranch, Create, Meetings
November 7th marked the Catalyst Ranch 9th anniversary and we celebrated with a fantastic party filled with clients, family and friends. iluvphoto provided lovely shots of our revelry and those photos can be seen on our website. There was delicious food, a giant...
by amber | Dec 14, 2010 | Meetings
Here is a meeting energizer that will jump start the problem solving juices in your attendees before the start of a brain-busting session. Make up a reasonable problem scenario for your organization where people need to get introduced, e.g. “The manufacturing...