See the difference. Feel the difference.
Building people.Strengthening organizations.Growing businesses.
Katalyst designs and delivers learning, consulting and development programs for businesses, government and development partners—connecting practical capability with the work people need to do.
Practical capability. Real results.
Solutions designed to work in the real world.
We work on the challenges that affect performance and growth—from individual skills and management capability to enterprise development, organizational effectiveness, research, program design and service improvement.
Our approach combines international experience with deep attention to context, creating solutions that are practical, relevant and built to work.
What we do
Different challenges.
Practical responses.
From an immediate skills gap to a complex development program, start with the area closest to your challenge.
Workplace Skills
Stronger skills. Better everyday performance.
Communication, problem-solving, customer service, sales and the practical skills people need at work, alongside focused programs in project management, HR and legal practice.
Management & Leadership
Capability that grows with responsibility.
From first-time managers to executive teams, we build the skills and judgment to lead people, performance and change, including tailored academies and public-sector leadership programs.
MSME Growth
Stronger businesses. Wider opportunity.
Practical enterprise development for people starting, strengthening or growing a business. We combine business tools, applied learning and mentoring around real commercial challenges.
Consulting & Development
Make complex assignments work.
Research, institutional development, program and service design, stakeholder consultation and implementation support. We connect evidence, people and delivery around what the assignment needs to achieve.
Retreats & Teambuilding
Strategic retreats, team days and Amazing Race experiences that bring people together around a shared purpose.
Ready-to-deliver programs
Choose the skills your people need now.
Half-day workshops · For managers
Katalyst
Practical Skills™
Learn it in the morning.
Apply it in the afternoon.
Six focused workshops that give managers practical tools for the situations they handle every day.
Delegation · Feedback · Performance · Difficult conversations · Coaching · AI for managers
One-day programs · Workplace skills
Katalyst
Essentials®
Skills people use
every day at work.
Eight practical programs that strengthen everyday workplace performance, ready to deliver in Lao or English.
Communication · Customer service · Problem-solving · Critical thinking · Presentation · Negotiation · Time management · Sales
How we work
Practical by design.
We combine international experience, Lao and English facilitation, custom tools and careful follow-through. The approach is shaped around your people, your context and the result you need.
Understand the challenge
Design the right response
Put it into action
Strengthen what comes next
Selected assignments
Consulting & development in practice.
B-Strong
MSME development
Designed and delivered for DOSMEP with World Bank support, B-Strong helped more than 150 Lao businesses build capability, strengthen decisions and act on opportunities for growth.
DCT Service Centre
GIZ VELA · Institutional sustainability
A five-year sustainability strategy and business model for LNCCI’s DCT Service Centre, developed with companies, TVET institutions and government to clarify services, funding and the Centre’s role beyond project support.
Hin Nam No
GIZ ProFEB · Institutional development
Organizational review, community consultation and practical management tools to support clearer roles, stronger coordination and workable responses to conservation priorities.
Our commitments
Responsible
in practice.
Environmental sustainability
We reduce avoidable waste and environmental impact through choices about materials, travel, venues and suppliers.
Inclusion
We adapt language, methods and materials so people can contribute, whatever their role or level of confidence.
Safeguarding
We plan and deliver our work with care for participants’ safety, dignity and wellbeing.
Start with the challenge
What are you trying
to change?
A stronger team. A better-performing organization. A growing business. A program that needs to work. Tell us what you have in mind.