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Catalyst Consulting

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Catalyst Consulting Ltd is a UK based Training and Consulting Company specialising in Six Sigma and Business Improvement. Catalyst has trained over 1000 Black Belts in GE across Europe. Established in 1994, our client list includes over 50 blue chip organisations.

Introducing Catalyst Consulting Limited



Founded in 1994, Catalyst specialises in Lean, Six Sigma, Business Process Improvement, People Skills Development and Managing Change. We really are customer focused; taking a flexible approach, acting as real catalysts and focusing on your business in order to obtain benefits. Our materials are highly acclaimed and are easy to follow, and we are always happy to develop or tailor programmes to meet your specific requirements.

In seeking to achieve our mission, we look to ensure skills transfer, with a genuine aim of working in partnership with you.

Catalyst’s Mission

Our mission is to ‘Enable Results’ for clients, by accelerating the rate of performance improvements, and extending the deployment of world-class best business practice.

Catalyst People and Values

We realise it is the people that make the difference - our team are experienced trainers who have done it for real; experienced Senior Managers in a range of industries, including Telecommunications, Financial Services, and Information Technology, with Master Black Belts from Lean Six Sigma ‘blue chip’ organisations, such as, DuPont, Dow Chemicals, and General Electric.

Our people reflect our values:

  • Trust
  • Honesty
  • Respect
  • Teamwork
  • Openness
  • Client
  • Professionalism
Catalyst’s Products and Services:

We have an extensive range of products and services, including:

  • Training, both in-house and open public courses
  • Coaching
  • Consulting
  • Interim Management
  • Certification
  • Material design and development
  • Recruitment support
Catalyst’s Customers

Covering both the Public and Private Sectors, Service and Manufacturing, we have over 50 ‘blue chip’ clients including BT, Astrazeneca, Sun Microsystems, Siemens Medical, Saint-Gobain Nordic, Airbus UK, Lloyds TSB, O2, Abbey, Yell, Dyson, FLS Aerospace, Volvo and Rolls-Royce, with the majority of this work coming as a direct result of recommendation from client to client.

Catalyst’s Approach to Lean Six Sigma

At Catalyst, we feel there is real synergy between Lean Thinking and Six Sigma. It is not a question of one or the other; both are needed. They combine to provide an extremely effective and pragmatic approach to improvement.

That said, for the approach to be successful, it’s vital to recognise the need for different thinking. This quote from Albert Einstein sums things up very well:

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that caused them.”

We want to change outcomes, but we need to realise that they are themselves the outcomes from our systems. Not the computer systems, but the way we work together and interact. These systems are the product of how we think and behave. So, if we want to change the outcomes, we have to change our systems, and to do that, we have to change our thinking, and our behaviours. Those changes need to begin with the organisation’s leadership and management.

The thinking needs to focus on improving value for the customer, by improving and smoothing the process flow, eliminating waste and reducing variation.

This is reflected in the set of key principles for Lean Six Sigma that we refer to as the magnificent seven:

  • Focus on the customer
  • Identify and understand how the work gets done – the value
  • stream
  • Manage, improve, and smooth the process flow
  • Remove Non-Value-Add steps and waste
  • Manage by fact and reduce variation
  • Involve and equip the people in the process
  • Undertake improvement activity in a systematic way
Our approach to Lean Six Sigma helps people use the right tools, in the right place, and in the right way, not just in improvement and design projects, but also in day-to-day work activities. It really is about getting the key principles and concepts of Lean Six Sigma into the DNA and lifeblood of organisations, so that it becomes a natural part of how things are done.

Catalyst provides a comprehensive range of highly interactive in-house and open training programmes. We have our own standard training packages, but we are always happy to work with clients to develop or tailor programmes and workshops to meet specific needs.

In addition to Lean Six Sigma, we also provide comprehensive training in areas such as Managing Change, Leadership, Empowering People, and Business Excellence.

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