Trying to develop new products, increase customer engagement, or just get unstuck? We work as an extension of your team to unleash its potential for innovation, problem-solving, and decision-making.
Define
What are we solving for?
We frame the opportunity and create a system that enables your team to define what success looks like.
Decide
What does solved look like?
We engage key stakeholders through Immersive Workshops to understand what solved means and select the best options to evaluate.
Design
How are we solving the problem?
We evaluate different approaches to solutions with prototypes and experiments to determine the most effective solutions.
Who are the Growth Catalysts?
Managing Directors
Brian Maggi
Brian has been involved with new product development and designer for over 30 years. He began his career at Apple, and worked on such notable products at the iMac, iTunes and the Newton. He’s an accomplished entrepreneur and inventor, having started several companies and receiving 6 patents for the creation of the first commercial Spam Filter Postini.
He has shipped over 200 products and counting. He received his BA in Communication from the University of Illinois, and was a Research Assistant for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications creators of the first graphical Web Browser Mosaic.
Bret Stasiak
Bret has been blending the art of marketing with the sciences of technology and analytics for over 25 years. After working on the client side, Bret founded and led respond360, a data driven direct response agency. That firm was rolled into BVK, a full service integrated agency, where Bret served as President. Organizations from Southwest Airlines Vacations to Stanford Hospital and Clinics have called his thinking disruptive because it changed the way they evaluated opportunities. He earned his BA in economics from the University of Chicago and MBA in marketing and business policy from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Brent Hieggelke
Brent has focused his 30+ years experience working in nascent and emerging categories, helping companies earn market leadership positions. From web analytics and behavioral targeting, vacation home rentals, mobile messaging, live video streaming to real estate crowdfunding, Brent has played a key role in the strategic marketing and positioning of a variety of companies in B2C, B2B and B2B2C industries. Brent has a BA with honors from the University of Chicago, and has spoken at hundreds of seminars and conferences, including Cannes Lions, Mobile World Congress, Ad Tech, and SXSW, and been quoted in media ranging from the Wall Street Journal and New York Times to Advertising Age and Sunset Magazine.
Accelerators
When you work with Growth Catalysts, you gain access to a diverse group of thought leaders across a variety of domains.
Sanjay Sood
Professor of Marketing at UCLA Anderson School of Management
Alexandra Stankiewicz
Chief Marketing Officer
& Brand Consultant
Jason Cline
Chief Technology Officer
& Product Development
Partners
We have partnered with best in breed, abundance-minded, companies with deep expertise in the disciplines you need to bring your solutions to market. They are vetted not only for capability and character, but also their ability to hit the ground running as integrated partners. You save time because they’re dialed into our Idea Momentum methodology making onboarding a seamless process.
Digital Solutions
Branding & Creative
Thriving Talent & Culture
