SERIAL CATALYSTS
Helping organizations grow with real change,
not just ideas or slide decks
Serial Catalysts works with leaders, teams and companies to build stronger leadership, healthier team dynamics, and innovation that leads to real change.
We do this through experiential formats, practical learning journeys, coaching and strategic support, and business development across Europe.
When good people are working hard, but progress still feels heavy
Many organizations are full of capable people, good intentions, and constant effort.
From the outside, things may look fine.
Inside, something still feels harder than it should.
You may recognize this:
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leaders are busy, but not fully aligned
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teams work hard, but trust is low or collaboration feels heavy
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innovation gets attention, but little really changes
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workshops or training happen, but the impact fades fast
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strategy is clear at the top, but less clear in everyday decisions
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culture needs to shift, but nobody knows where to begin
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new ideas exist, but there is no safe structure to test them and grow them
These are rarely isolated issues.
They are usually signs of disconnect between people, priorities, and the way the organization works.
That is where we help.
Experiential Formats
We design experiences that help leaders and teams step out of routine, challenge assumptions, and see new possibilities.
This can include curated learning expeditions, round tables, strategic events, and panel talks.
These formats do more than inspire.
They help create movement.
Training
We create practical learning journeys that strengthen leadership, collaboration, and innovation capability.
This can include academies, leadership programs, thematic labs, capability sprints, and team-based development formats.
The goal is not more training for the sake of training.
The goal is stronger skills, better habits, and better ways of working.
Coaching & Strategic Support
We work with leaders and teams where change is actually happening.
This can include coaching, mentoring, facilitation, transformation support, sandbox setup, innovation structuring, and hands-on strategic support.
This is where real decisions get made, real tension shows up, and real progress becomes possible.
We help you through a tailor made of four connected pillars.
Four ways we help
Business Development
We help organizations grow beyond their own walls, across Europe.
Through our strong European network, we create access to new markets, new conversations, new partners, and new opportunities.
This includes curated business development experiences, strategic dinners, ecosystem activation, market-entry support, partner introductions, and growth-oriented formats that help companies build traction across Europe.
How we work
Most organizational challenges do not sit at just one level.
What looks like a leadership issue may also be a team issue.
What looks like an innovation issue may also be a strategy issue.
What looks like a growth issue may also be an organizational issue.
That is why we work across three levels:
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the individual
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the team
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the wider organization
Looking at all three helps us understand what is really going on and where change needs to happen first.
This makes the work more grounded, more relevant, and more likely to last.
Why Serial Catalysts
We’re not consultants. We’re catalysts.
A catalyst helps accelerate what needs to happen without becoming the center of the story.
That is how we see our role.
We do not try to become the hero of your transformation.
We help the right people inside your organization gain clarity, build trust, and move forward.
Our goal is not to make you depend on us.
Our goal is to help you build the capability to continue without us.
What makes our approach different:
We connect what others keep separate
Leadership, team development, innovation, transformation, and growth are often treated as separate topics.
In real organizations, they are deeply connected.
We go deeper, then help you move
We do not stay at the surface, but we also do not get stuck in analysis. We help people reflect, decide, and act.
We build capability that stays
We do not just deliver sessions. We help your people build the confidence, habits, and structure to keep going without us.
We open doors across Europe
We bring a strong European network that helps organizations learn, connect, and grow beyond their own contex
Who we work with
We work with organizations that want meaningful progress, not just more activity.
That often includes:
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founders and leadership teams
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HR and L&D leaders
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innovation, strategy, and transformation leaders
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business unit leaders
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teams working on growth, culture, collaboration, or change
We can work with both growing companies and more established organizations, as long as there is real willingness to move.
Our Clients
Trusted by leaders working on growth, change, and capability
We work with organizations that want to strengthen how their people lead, collaborate, innovate, and grow.
Testimonials
“The team designed and facilitated the largest hackathon ever organized for our bank in Romania, bringing together 350 young adults to reconnect our organization with Gen Z. The format created real energy, but also real output: the quality of the process and the ideas allowed us to select three projects for further deployment inside the bank.”
Eleni Skoura
Head of Retail Banking and Deputy CEO, ING Bank Romania
“Alain and his team created a strong and thoughtful module for our leadership catalogue. They helped our senior managers and high-potential leaders understand how disruption works, not as a theory, but as a practical lens for strategic choices. The Jobs-to-be-Done framework gave our bank a clear way to think about long-term innovation and customer relevance”
Gayatri Khanna
Head of Leadership and Management Academy, BNP Paribas Europe, 2015–2025
“They opened the windows of our organization. Through their international innovation network across Europe, the US, and Asia, they brought outside inspiration into our transformation journey and helped us build a stronger intrapreneurial culture across 15 factories on several continents. Their work accelerated our innovation funnel by combining open innovation, customer co-creation, and real business challenges.”
Vincent Monziols
CEO Saint-Gobain Bearings 2011-2019
“They helped us unlock creativity across our Promat teams. By bringing together people from different functions, they created the conditions for fresh thinking, stronger peer-to-peer connection, and new ideas that would not have emerged inside separate silos. Their approach showed the value of cross-functional innovation in a very practical way.”
Agnieszka Gajek
Global Head of Marketing and Innovation, Promat, Etex Group