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Leadergy Catalyst Brings a Different Perspective to Business Problems As Compared to Traditional Academic or Commercial Consultants

The stereotypes are familiar to consultants and people who hire them: Commercial consultants are in it for the money. They offer boilerplate products and simple answers to complex problems. Then there are academic consultants. They are detached from the real world, miss deadlines, and make things more complicated than they need to be.

While kernels of truth can be found in these simplistic characterizations, commercial and academic consultants, in fact, bring different and important perspectives to problems companies face.

"Companies often use both," says Michael Robinson, Founder and CEO of Leadergy Catalyst. "Yet they frequently apply the wrong solution to the problem they are trying to solve."

"A lot of projects consultants work on are fairly standard in terms of what's necessary to get from start to completion," says Keith Paglusch, Senior Partner, President and COO, for Leadergy Catalyst.   "But often there are those that are more difficult and you have to figure out how to work it out. You have to invent a new method. That's where Leadergy Catalyst comes into play."

Meeting a need

Most businesses at one time or another need a consultant. Consultants are paid thinkers, who bring fresh perspective and technical skills honed through years of experience, study, and research. Consultants help with everything from employee morale to customer satisfaction to technology improvements.

However Leadergy Catalyst is different.  “We do not consider ourselves as consultants, but more as partners to our clients”, says Robinson.  “As an Executive Advisory firm, we purposely come up along side the CEO and senior executive team members to collaborate on how to help them achieve excellence in their business.  Our entire engagement is designed around their (the clients) success in executing change that yields unprecedented benefits.” 

To accomplish that Leadergy Catalyst brings to the table a host of deeply talented experts.  “Think of us as a custom shop of solutions engineering and application” says Paglusch.  “We utilize our enormous bench strength and make available the top talent in business to help our clients achieve uncommon success.  Our broad reach into talent pools of expertise enables us to provide the leading resources and expertise that is necessary for swift execution of plans to enable the client to surpass their competition.”

"When Leadergy Catalyst engages a client, we are representing decades of experience in helping CEOs solve unique problems and remove barriers to growth, profitability, and business continuity”  says Robinson.  "Our singular focus is determining how we help the client unleash the potential from within their resource and asset base.  When people hire us, they are not engaging a firm that simply gives them pre-cast answers, but instead they are hiring a partner that invests heavily in their success and shares risk with them.  The broad experience represented by our team, who have all been highly successful executives, enables us to achieve uncommon results on behalf of our clients.”

Selling knowledge weighted by experience

This knowledge and experience, combined with rigor in diagnosing problems and executing solutions, is the differentiating strength of Leadergy Catalyst.  As Keith Paglusch explains, “Many conventional consulting firms apply the same set of solutions to a client’s problem, even if they occasionally have to ‘force fit’ it.  In other words, having solved similar problems elsewhere, they will replicate the solution. The problem with this is there are seldom two companies the same, so using the same solution consistently produces less than stellar results.”

While Leadergy Catalyst uses their continuous learning across clients and industries, they do not make an assumption that ‘one size fits all.’  They approach every challenge as a unique opportunity to enable their client to achieve uncommon results, and using their expertise, design a solution that optimizes for the client’s ability to over-achieve in solving the targeted problem.

"We have enormous experience and wisdom gained from our years of leading companies and organizations,” says Robinson.  “We have team members that have led companies and organizations in excess of 10,000 employees and been accountable for $4B capital programs, and we have leaders that have been successful innovators and entrepreneurs in starting and leading their companies to successful exits.  It is our purpose to share that knowledge to help clients either prevent making errors in navigating their competitive landscape, or recover momentum if that landscape unexpectedly shifted on them and has placed them in a difficult position.” 

Execution Excellence Combined With Speed

The DNA of Leadergy Catalyst is somewhat of a ‘rule breaker’ in the sense of setting expectations and developing momentum to tackle big issues quickly, head on, and with intent to drive mastery of change execution in the process.  This firm recognizes the value of acting fast and with laser focus to drive for desired results.  Keith Paglusch explains; “Speed is essential in a highly competitive marketplace and clients do not have the luxury of casually embracing change management for achieving desired results and removing barriers to success.  Once we engage with the CEO, and in partnership with his/her senior team, we are energized to move with haste, act quickly, and purposefully.”

“This isn’t a ‘hair on fire’ approach,” Robinson clarifies, “but is how we quickly build momentum and energy within the organization to help drive improvements.  It doesn’t mean we aren’t methodical, but we do not let decision execution slow the progress.  We challenge the organization to raise the bar on how fast they can process change and obtain results, and this often becomes part of the competitive DNA we leave with the client when we successfully exit the engagement.”

Does this mean that Leadergy Catalyst is not sensitive to the demands placed on the client’s staff?  Robinson explains, “That’s an interesting perspective.  We have seen time and again where the acceleration of execution energizes the teams, and in fact speed has a ‘simplifying’ affect, whereby process steps are reduced or combined to enable acceleration. When the teams experience success from methodical acceleration, they begin to think outside the box and ‘break rules’ to find other latent potential that has been dormant in the organization.  We are high energy and this is on purpose.  We know from experience that often this is the two degrees of separation between a company of mediocrity and one of excellence.”

Paglusch adds “Organizations typically have more capacity than they realize to achieve differentiating results.  Our job is to help them identify and unleash that hidden potential which can set them above and apart from their competition.” 

Companies can sometimes be too sensitive to assumptions or beliefs that the organization cannot move faster, and this constraint is a root cause of either missing opportunities or spending more time or money unnecessarily. 

Priorities and Legacy

Leadergy Catalyst views their primary role is to help CEOs and senior executives build stellar business platforms that, with appropriate leadership, are renewing themselves and their organizations constantly, and pro-actively.  “There is an important difference between traditional commercial and academic consultants and Leadergy Catalyst”, explains Robinson. “We want to teach people how to lead for ongoing success by transferring knowledge and leadership skills that they (the clients) can own for themselves. Our ultimate purpose is to leave a legacy of execution excellence leadership.  That is what we get the most satisfaction from.  Our passion is to replicate execution success wherever we go, with whomever we serve.”  

While Leadergy Catalyst is in business to make a profit, their purpose is to achieve that second to assuring clients receive exactly the right kind of support they need to break barriers.  If during the initial assessment Leadergy Catalyst does not believe they can help the client achieve the goals, they won’t accept an engagement with the client. 

We’re not a public company”, says Paglusch, “So we do not have a broad number of shareholders to satisfy or quarterly earnings expectations to meet.  We are a very closely held firm that has minimal debt obligations, and this gives us the freedom to choose our engagements carefully and select only those that we know we will be highly successful.”

In conclusion, Leadergy Catalyst is redefining the profession of traditional outside consultants.  As a new breed of Executive Advisors this firm has an enormous amount of competency, experience, and wisdom to share with clients who are in themselves wise enough to seek their partnership.  With a bench of highly qualified executives from many different industries such as IT, Telecom, Software Development, Customer Call Center Management, Utility Infrastructure Development and Construction, and Retail, to name a few, there is no other Executive Advisory firm today that is more committed to building a legacy of an expanding universe of companies achieving execution excellence. 

Leadergy Catalyst is the ‘go to’ resource for CEOs seeking partnership in helping them attain uncommon results by unlocking the latent energy within their organizations