Catalyst Consulting Partners LLC

Our History

While raising their three daughters, Glen and Cynthia Waisner pursued independent business careers. Glen achieved success in the energy industry, holding a number of executive-level positions (including Vice President of Marketing for a Fortune 200 company), while Cynthia developed a successful independent training, coaching and organization development practice with consulting clients throughout North America. While living in Pittsburgh, PA, Glen left the energy industry (twenty years was enough!) to join a boutique management consulting firm that worked with non-energy clients throughout the world. The opportunity to help an assortment of clients with the critical issues affecting their performance was exciting to Glen (a fact that Cynthia had tried to tip Glen off to for many years), and he thrived in the new role of "consultant."

When working with the executive teams of his primarily manufacturing clients, Glen frequently called upon Cynthia's organization and leadership development expertise to help him solve particularly thorny leadership issues. After subcontracting with Cynthia to help his consulting team address the management dysfunction of one of his client's European business units, it finally occurred to Glen (over a glass of Chablis in Lyon, France) that he and Cynthia should formally join forces and launch their own management consulting firm. Cynthia, of course, had already been silently planning for such a professional partnership for many months, so Catalyst Consulting Partners LLC was finally launched in early-2002.

Catalyst was founded on a simple premise - that clients deserve the best business advice available at the most reasonable costs possible. So Glen and Cynthia vowed to avoid building "overhead" expenses, costs which eventually have to be passed on to clients, by structuring Catalyst as a virtual business. All of our associates work for us on an as-needed basis as independent contractors subject, of course, to our strict oversight and "quality control." This allows us to assign the most appropriate consulting talent to our client's issues without having to absorb the costs of unproductive time ("on the beach" in consultant-speak). No fixed payroll expenses, no mahogany offices (one confession: we did insist on Aeron chairs for our personal offices, but they have long ago been fully amortized!), and no hourly billing. This latter point is especially important to Glen and Cynthia, who had each purchased enough professional services during their careers to have learned to hate dealing with consultants who were always "on the clock." No one wants to get a bill for "a six minute phone consultation" or "miscellaneous emails," so Catalyst works exclusively on a project basis. And to help new clients overcome their natural reluctance to bring in "hired guns" such as Catalyst, Catalyst has always offered a money back guarantee. If we're not successful at solving the problem we were assigned, then you don't pay us. It's that simple.

Glen, Cynthia, and the rest of the Catalyst team, look forward to talking with you about the issues, challenges and barriers facing you and your organization TODAY. Call us at 1-800-378-9843 for a FREE telephone consultation (we won't even track the number of minutes we talk!).