Catalyz - An Innovation and Design Research Firm

Catalyz is a Seattle based consulting firm founded in 2016 to help organizations transform their culture, mindsets and ways of work leveraging the methods and mindsets of human-centered design (design thinking). Our offerings include the following services: *Help leaders build and scale a culture and practice of human-centered design in their team* *Work with internal innovation/product/research teams to provide on-call design strategist support with research, synthesis, and facilitation of synthesis and ideation activities.* *Strategic Facilitation of off-sites, team retreats, and executive level or board ideation sessions* *Leadership Development +21st Century Teams Coaching* We are often asked to help organizations stand up new innovation/HCD teams or functions and provide on-call design strategist support to high priority customer and employee experience projects. We are not your typical "give us a brief and we'll give you a deck" research firm- we embed with your team and bring them along the journey of leveraging tools and frameworks of human-centered design to develop new products and services, with a goal of empowering them to use these tools on their own.