Our Services

The NASA images of the Hearth Nebula (left) and the Heart and Soul Nebulae (lower right) reflect the focalizing hearth at which we gather to connect with the heart and soul of your endeavor.

Best Practices and Innovation with a Focus on Service

You are pursuing optimizing your team's creative spark, innovative prowess, and technical delivery. If you would like quick assistance in getting projects staffed, built, or launched, we offer Technical Solutions, Project Management, and Portfolio Performance solutions. If your products or team need new juice, we are experts in Product Innovation, including roadmapping utilizing a mix of competitive intelligence, cost-risk-benefit analysis, and Creative Kindling. If you want to implement technical solutions that will actually be adopted, we can help with User Centered Design and Process Engineering. We have also supported large and small enterprises with strategic planning, empowering leadership to set priorities and track progress against plans.

Architecting Agile

Get fleet-footed in software, research, and management with standups, stories, backlogs, and scrum practices. We can provide scrum masters, product owners, and agile technologists. Or we can provide agile coaches and agile process architects to inspire, train, and coach your team members. We can also help you plan and realize agile test projects, agile transition strategies, and agile management.

Designing Experience

With vital insight into information architecture and experience design, we can help you design products and services around your user's experience. This increases user engagement, loyalty, and product excellence. There's no guesswork involved as we gauge optimizing user experience through direct qualitative research combined with our research-based savvy.

Catalyzing Innovation

A key capacity at Catalyst Northwest is catalyzing innovation. Unleashing creative potential in staff and design teams using research-backed patterns from nature and bioculture. Our principal consultants include leaders in the field of regenerative design pattern languages, including how to break out of disciplinary silos and foster connective creativity. We nurture the complete lifecycle and bring a systems view - we can help you innovate processes, products, teams, and solutions through a wide range of offerings, from retreats and intensives to facilitating ongoing practice adoption. Independent assessment, a fresh set of eyes, whatever you need. We help you spark and sparkle.

Regenerating Enterprise

If you want to work with regenerative designers and sustainability visionaries at the forefront of the field, Catalyst Northwest is a great partner. We help startups with business planning, funding models, marketing, pitches, and packages. And we can support your enterprise success as you take it more deeply. Whether you're already a green business and want to become a "deep green enterprise"-- or if you are just starting out, let us help you get beyond energy audits to the heart of business. Regenerating enterprise does more than avert climate change, it can change the climate of your workplace and help you claim and retain valuable partners in creativity. We bring a depth of experience also in mixed public/private enterprise designs and how to bring your sustainability visions into being.