Leadership Services
Whether its a single conversation, a focused training session, a team retreat, or a lasting role to fill gaps in developing people and projects; Catalyst has an approach that will help you grow Healthy Leaders and a Healthy Organization.
Custom Leadership Programs
As charities emerge from COVID limitations many are finding there is a need and opportunity to invest in further developing leadership among your team. Let us customize and deliver a program that reflects your mission and culture, and helps your people become more confident, more skilled, and more healthy as leaders.
What we do…
LeadWithCatalyst provides practical leadership and strategic consulting to meet the needs of charities and not for profit organizations.
Chris Wignall, has earned a reputation for insightful questions and a range of effective resources for lead staff, executive teams, emerging leaders, and boards. His enthusiasm and optimism, combined with a direct and outcomes-oriented style, have been welcomed by charity leaders locally, nationally, and internationally.
Chris has served charities through leadership mentoring, board development, strategy sessions, systems review, and team building experiences. He is particularly interested in how human dynamics advance or hamper vision, the importance of organizational culture and the power of celebration.
We also eagerly make referrals to skilled experts and experienced peers when appropriate.
Some of our Clients
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Andy Harrington
Executive Director, Canada Foodgrains Bank
“Chris is a thoughtful and innovative leader who is able to identify trends impacting organizational effectiveness and is not afraid to face the realities of the complicated world we work into. He is a strategic thinker who asks perceptive questions to get at underlying truths that enable the leaders and organizations he works with to chart a course towards a better future. As such he is an extremely effective strategic and leadership consultant who I am happy to recommend.”
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Bev Crandell
CEO, Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides
“My monthly PACE calls with Chris provided me with the opportunity to explore my leadership in a safe environment where I could bring forward challenges and be challenged to think about different ways to lead and guide a team through some pretty turbulent times. Chris held me to task, provided thoughtful feedback and shared valuable insight that helped me shape my transition and hopefully be a better leader. His advice was always sage and I left each session feeling supported and motivated.”
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Hailey Hechtman
Executive Director, Causeway Work Centre
“Chris is an incredible coach and facilitator. He has a gift for getting you as a leader to explore your motivations and strengths while challenging you to dive deeper into the areas that you may be resisting. He provides excellent insights into your own thought processes and brings teams together in an approachable, supportive and collaborative way. His content is engaging, he provides practical tools and has a way of promoting change that is empowering rather than intimidating. It was a pleasure working with him.”
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Will McLaughlin
Executive Director, Christians Against Poverty Canada
“Chris walked alongside our organization in a thoughtful and thought provoking manner. He created opportunities for us to talk about challenging topics in a respectful and considered way. He also engaged our Board, bringing a greater degree of alignment and clarity to our entire organization. I would endorse Chris to anyone searching for consulting, mentoring and coaching, your board, team and organization will benefit immensely.”
Your job is to lead your organization. Ours is to provide you with the ideas, training, and coaching you need to excel.
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