This document gives a synopsis of the Learning and Development firm, The Catalyst, its

product offerings, the credentials of its team and the work it has done.

SYNOPSIS OF THE CATALYST

THE CATALYST LEARNING JOURNEY

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SYNOPSIS OF

THE CATALYST

THE CATALYST LEARNING

JOURNEY

ABOUT US

“Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no

birds sang except the best” – Henry Van Dyke

The Catalyst is a leading Learning & Development firm specialising in

the field of Talent Assessment, Talent Development & Management

Consulting. We aim at providing complete solutions in the form of

‘Total Value Offering’ focusing on engaging talent, enhancing

performance and enabling profitable business growth.

Our clients find our offerings impactful and unique in multiple ways

• Tailor Made Solutions – We tailor make our programs,

assessments and trainings to the specific needs of the clients

leading to customised solutions appropriate to the client’s

business context

• Differentiated, Engaging Formats – We provide unique

advantage in offering game based/ experiential and certified

solutions in trainings and assessments to make learning and

development an engaging, fun filled and thrilling journey

• Best In Class Talent – We boast of founding team of highly

experienced and qualified talent from the best institutes in the

country. Rigorous Train The Trainer Program to ensure

standardized quality of delivery.

OUR

UNIQUE

APPROACH

“What gets measured

get done” – Peter

Drucker

Our unique 3P

approach to training

involves 3 phases –

PHASE 1: Conducting

extensive Training

Needs Assessment,

understanding

stakeholder

expectations & learner

readiness.

PHASE 2: Learning

Intervention design

and delivery.

Phase 3: Measuring

effectiveness

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OUR PRODUCT OFFERINGS

Catalyst provides a wholistic approach towards creating an effective , innovative and multi faceted

method of building organization capability. Our offerings cater to the most pressing needs of the clients

in the field of Talent Management and Organization Development as described below:

1. Talent Assessment

2. Talent Development

3. Management Consulting

Talent Assessment

“Everybody has talent; it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.” – George

Lucas

Talent assessment is first step towards identifying and grooming leadership pipeline in an organization.

A well thought out assessment plan helps in analyzing skill gaps, identifying high potential and creating

a targeted development plan. Catalyst offers a range of well researched tools for Talent Assessment. It

boasts of highly experienced assessors with extensive experience across industry verticals.

Our clients have benefited from the following assessment tools

ASSESSMENT/ DEVELOPMENT CENTER

Catalyst specializes in developing and designing competency based development centre to analyze

skill gaps and identify high potential. Catalyst Development Center is designed to provide unique

opportunity to its participants to experience self awareness, group behaviour and performance

effectiveness through intense, engaging and fun filled exercises.

• Engaging and Fun Filled pattern: The DC is designed in a way that promotes self exploration and

self awareness in an engaging and enjoyable manner. So while they go through intensive learning,

we make sure they also have fun.

• Specialized panel of assessors : DC consists of a panel of assessors comprising of psychologists,

behaviorists and industry experts having certifications like MBTI, Hogan, PAPI etc. Each assessor

is taken through an extensive workshop on Catalyst DC approach.

• Customised exercises - Multiple assessment tools and exercises are used which are tailor made

according to clients business context and requirements rather than using ‘off the shelf’ exercises.

This ensures relevance, consistency and validity of observations.

• Highly Individualized feedback report – The feedback report for each participant is highly

individualized and provides detailed observations on strength and development areas with forward

action plan.

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GROW 360 DEGREES

GROW 360 degrees is an employee development tool which aims to provide feedback from multiple

stakeholders with whom the employee has a direct working relationship.

The tool consists of a survey questionnaire based on the behavioral competencies identified by the

organization as critical for superlative performance in a given role and provides detailed individual

feedback on each competency.

The tool guarantees anonymity, eliminates bias, supports customization and provides control over

survey monitoring, messaging, communication etc. It is simple and flexible to administer and easy to

implement.

PSYCHOMETRIC TESTING

Psychometric tests are a standard and scientific method used to measure individuals' mental

capabilities, behavioural style and other hidden attributes like personality, attitudes, preferences,

intelligence etc. Catalyst has a host of certifications in some of the most powerful psychometric tools

which can be used for employee selection, personality assessment, training and development, career

progression, team building etc.

• DiSC Profiling - Thomas International People Assessment license and certification – Based on

Martson’s theory of ‘Emotions of normal People’ DiSC characterizes four patters of interaction

between an individual and his environment – Dominance, Influence, Submission, Compliance

• Myers-Briggs Typology Indicator – MBTI is world’s most trusted and widely used personality

assessment tool which helps people understand themselves and their interaction with others

• Hogan Assessments – Hogan Assessment system creates high value predictive assessments

that are directly related to job performance and organization bottom line

• Personality and Preference Inventory – PAPI is a leading work related personality assessment

used to evaluate behaviour and preferred work styles of individuals.

MEASURING EFFECTIVENESS (TEAM/ SUPERVISOR)

Everything that can be measured, can be improved. Catalyst has well researched tools on measuring

performance effectiveness of Teams and Managers which provide powerful insights into various factors

which prevent them from performing to their best.

1. Team Effectiveness Assessment Model - Organizations need teams to work and deliver results.

It is imperative for them to understand what drives team effectiveness and measure the same to

enhance team performance. We provide a structured tool to measure team effectiveness at

current levels and adopt methodology to develop and enhance the same for the future.

2. Managers Effectiveness Assessment Model – A manager is not only responsible for his own job

but is instrumental in driving performance from his team. A manager needs to perform various

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tasks and play various roles. The tool provides insights into various aspects of a manager’s role

and how effectively he is performing in each of these aspects of the role with a structured path

for development.

3. Employee Engagement Assessment Model – Employee Engagement at workplace is of

immense importance considering its impact on employee performance and organization

effectiveness. Our unique employee engagement model provides an insight into factors

affecting employee engagement and measures current level of engagement with actionables for

the future.

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Entry Level

•Campus to Corporate

•Adapting to corporate life – corporate etiquettes and grooming

•Verbal and Non Verbal communication

Junior Management

•The World of Teams

•Outbound program on team work

•Effective Presentation Skills

•Customer Service Orientation

•Vendor Management

Middle Management

•Time Management : Planning and organizing

•Building High Performing Teams

•First Time Managers

•Business communication

•Managing Stress

•Managing tough Customer

•Negotiation skills

Senior Management

•Leadership Skills

•Self Awareness : Attaining personal mastery

•Situational Leadership

•Leading & Managing Change

•Driving a quality mindset

•Managing tough Customer

•Business Acumen/ Financial Acumen

• Impactful Presentation Skills

Talent Development

"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is

all about growing others.” - Jack Welch

Talent development is the most important and often overlooked aspect of building a strong

leadership pipeline and engaging and retaining high potential employees. An integrated talent

development strategy aligned with overall business strategy is a prerequisite to building long term

organization capability. Catalyst offers various talent development programs targeting different levels

and needs of the clients in highly engaging, personalized and cost effective way.

Programs by Level

We have an expert content development team which specializes in developing creative, customised,

impactful intervention design for sales effectiveness, leadership development, time management,

Coaching and Mentoring, Performance Management, Giving effective feedback and various other

people and business focused processes.

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Management Consulting

“ The greatest danger in the times of turbulence is not the turbulence, it is to act with yesterday’s logic”

– Peter Drucker

Catalyst partners with its clients to provide innovative solutions and design frameworks

to their most pressing management issues on change management, vision and values, business

development, talent engagement, organization effectiveness and growth by defining, designing,

aligning and integrating key elements of success. We aim at building organization capability with

needed agility which is required to deliver consistent value in a volatile global environment.

Organizations are in a constant state of evolution and change which necessitates a

transformational approach towards leveraging and optimizing its people, processes, resources and

structure and place them on a growth trajectory in line with long term vision and values. Catalyst

partners with its clients at different stages of maturity and stability to help them discover outcome

focused solutions enabling long term growth, sustainability and business impact. We help clients in

following areas:

• Talent Engagement and Leadership Development Programs

• HR Function Optimization

• Organization Design

• Vision/ Mission/ Values for future growth

• Change Management

• Rewards and recognition

• Organization Surveys

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THE CATALYST THINK TANK

Catalyst brings together an experienced pool of assessors/ facilitators/ consultants with a passion to

develop people, processes and top corporate talent on one platform to catalyze the business growth

and transform the business potential of employees and company alike.

The Core Team

Priti Agarwal

Priti is a versatile professional with interests ranging from sales, consulting, business development,

learning and development and building organizational capability. She founded the Catalyst in 2009 with

the dream of offering unique skill enhancement opportunities to individuals across various kinds of

institutions and organizations at various levels. Her interest in people development started very early in

her career, even before the entrepreneurial bug bit her, when as a sales manager and a leader at HUL,

she pioneered and rolled out various learning forums for her team. She continued to mentor and coach

peers and subordinates in her role as a strategy consultant at Accenture. The journey of self

actualization for self and others continues unabated as she passionately believes that learning is the

only path to progress – both personally and professionally. She spends considerable amount of time

enhancing her own skills as a facilitator and assessor through various certifications, webinars and

coming up with new strategies and approaches to develop effective and engaging learning techniques .

She has conducted a number of consulting projects, assessment centers and training programs on

sales effectiveness, leadership, communication, team building, time management etc. with various

clients and locations.

Priti is an MBA from XLRI and an economics graduate from St Stephen’s college, Delhi

University. Apart from pursuing her dream (The Catalyst), Priti loves to spend time with her kids and

read books across various subjects.

Shivani Manchanda

Shivani Manchanda is a dynamic, accomplished and client driven professional offering extensive

experience in Business Development, strategy , finance and operations. She combines her clear

thought process with pragmatic approach to offer innovative, impactful and unique sulotion. Shivani

serves as a partner to The Catalyst.

She has spearheaded Catalyst into customized Assessment center and training programs for

various institutional and corporate clients. She is Myers- Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) certified and has

facilitated several workshops and one to one coaching sessions basis the psychometric tool.

Before taking the plunge into her own venture, she has spent over 7 years of experience

with global consulting giants like Ernst and Young, Delliote Haskins and sells and American express,

where she has led several assignment on Policy review and compliance, Business analysis, USGAAP

& IGAPP audits, IFRS Reporting, Sox Compliance etc. She is a B. Com (Hons ) graduate from Punjab

University and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

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Ranita Ghosh

Ranita is a result focused and passionate HR professional with over 10 years’ diverse experience with

FMCG & ITES organizations. She has keen interest in people development which she actively pursues

by following a consultative solution based approach in delivering OD & training interventions that create

value for organizations while leveraging people’s performance and potential. THE CATALYST offers

her a platform to do both through its unique philosophy.

She has huge expertise in leading HR transformation initiatives in area of key account setups,

transitions, org restructuring and implementation of HR processes and systems for various business

verticals. She has led several initiatives focussing on employee engagement, talent management and

capability development resulting in consistently top scores on engagement and HR scorecard metrics

for the businesses she led. Ranita has also spearheaded various Leadership development and change

management interventions helping create engaged and empowered teams.

Ranita has done her MBA in HR from Symbiosis Centre for Management & HRD and BA

Honors in Economics from Delhi University. She also holds a certification in Lominger’s universally

acclaimed Leadership & Choices Architect®.

Rashmi Priya

Rashmi is a solution oriented and customer focused professional who truly believes that ‘the biggest

success lies in discovering and nurturing one’s true talents’. This belief has led to a keen interest in

identifying, developing and shaping people and their potential to achieve optimum performance and

productivity. She strives to bring out the best in them by leveraging her expertise in multiple areas like

competency based talent interventions, assessing and enhancing team, manager, employee

effectiveness, developing creative, enagaging learning content and impactful OD projects . She has a

grounding in Intervention Design and Facilitation Skills which she uses to help clients discover

innovative solutions and experience transformational learning and growth.

Before taking the giant leap to follow her passion, she spent over 7 years in multinational

organizations like Genpact and Sapient where she performed as an accomplished HR professional with

wide variety of experience in various HR domains like Employee Relations, Employee Engagement,

Talent Management and Learning and Development.

Rashmi is an MBA in HR from XLRI Jamshedpur

The Catalyst Team of Consultants

Mr Shyam Vishwanathan

Mr Vishwanathan is an Electrical Engineer and an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies of

Delhi University. He has 30 years of experience in configuring and delivering solutions to large

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corporations in India, W. Europe, Asia Pacific as well as the United States in areas as diverse as

Process Design, Knowledge Management and Technology Based Training.

He has been a consultant and professor in the areas of Strategy, Leadership, Change Management,

Personal Effectiveness and High Performance Team Building. He is also a Subject Matter Expert with

SHRM, India.

He has been the Dean of Executive Education at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. He has led

the design and delivery of Leadership Development initiatives for more than 60 different organizations

in the United States, Europe and Asia.

He also works with the CEOs of large, medium and small organizations – to help them create profitable

organizations that leverage strong Values Based Leadership to attain Business Leadership.

Apart from having been on the Board of Directors of organizations based in India and the United States

– he is on the Advisory Board of pioneering institutions such as the School of Inspired Leadership and

the School for Leadership Excellence.

Dr. Nitender Dhillon

Dr Dhillon has Doctorate (Fellowship in Management) from IIM, A with specialization in Finance and

Accounting. He is currently working as a freelance consultant with large MNC's and domestic

companies.

He has previously taught at Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon and XLRI,

Jamshedpur.

He has been involved as a faculty and as director for several management development and need

based in-company training programs in Finance. The programs have been conducted for several

leading private and public sector organizations in India and abroad. These programs have given him

exposure to several industries. The topics have ranged from Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting,

Corporate Finance and Capital Market Behavior.

His consulting work has covered various organizations in the areas of financial analysis, product

pricing and performance evaluation, restructuring and bench marking. He has jointly developed a

business simulation game, which is extensively used in corporate training as well as in the conduct of

the national management games for the All India Management Association. He has been on The

Editorial Board Journal Of Applied Corporate Finance, (ICFAI) and presented papers in international

workshops, symposiums and conferences on capital markets, financial sector, curriculum development.

Mr Rattan Chugh

Mr Chugh is the founder of Cornerstone Wealth Management, a fast growing financial services company.

Before establishing Cornerstone he was the country head for Fidelity International’s business in India. Joining Fidelity at the start-up stage, he was instrumental in developing Fidelity's large offshore centre and its successful domestic asset management business. He has also been on the board of Fidelity Fund Management and other Fidelity group companies in India. He has held several key positions in the financial services industry. His work experience of 20 years' spans globally renowned companies

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like American Express Bank, TATA and EDS, in Strategy, Management, Technology, Operations, Business Development and Merger & Integration.

He brings his immense experience as an entrepreneur and as the ex- CEO at Fidelity International to the OMP. He is an expert in the area of Execution who enables the participants to gain insights on the key issues of execution of strategy, time management, Business Acumen (a highly interactive workshop on understanding Finance)

Ms Rachna Chawla

Ms Chawla is a seasoned leadership and change facilitator/ coach working with corporate & social enterprise. She is a specialist in designing and delivering adult learning programs across domains with a focus on personal and organizational leadership. She has the ability to diagnose, design, and deliver to a variety of client groups – large corporates, small and medium business, the social sector, education and women leaders. She has several years of experience across sectors including banking, consulting, education, energy, engineering, FMCG, infrastructure, IT, retail, social enterprise, & telecom. She has managed and delivered client engagements across geographies & cultures including India, Pakistan, Russia, North Africa, the Middle East and Singapore. Rachna is an associate Coach/ Faculty with CCL, Mercer and The HayGroup.

Ms Upasana Kaila

Upasana is an HR consultant and facilitator. Led by the desire to serve and learn, she enjoys exploring

avenues for growing organizations and people through positive organization development.

She has around 11 years of experience in HR, Organization Development and Learning & Performance

in areas including process / program design and implementation, performance management, training

designing, facilitation, leadership development, coaching and competency mapping, assessment and

development in regional and global roles. She has worked in the IT, ITES, Health Care and Non Profit

sectors in India and the US, in organizations including Accenture, IBM, Hackensack University Medical

Center, New Jersey and ITC Infotech.

She is a certified Global Professional in Human Resources by the Society of Human Resource

Management and Human Resources Certification Institute and a Certified Professional in Learning &

Performance by the American Society of Training Development. She is also Myers Briggs Type

Indicator (MBTI) certified and a Certified Facilitator of the DiSC Classic 2.0.

Mr Madhur Upadhyay

He is a facilitator and trainer. He is guided by his calling to inspire, explore and serve. Professionally it

has led him to be engaged in creating, executing and measuring organizational capability and people

processes whose intent has been appreciative and transformative for others and his own self.

He has 11 years of experience in HR, Training & Development, M&A and Quality in India and the US in

regional and national roles. He has worked in IT, Analytics and Manufacturing organizations.

He is certified in Competency Assessment by SHL, GPHR by SHRM - Human Resources Certification

Institute, Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Personality & Preference Inventory (PAPI).

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He has a Masters in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations (XLRI) and Masters in Applied

Positive Psychology (University of Pennsylvania) and Bachelors in Applied Psychology (Delhi

University).

Ms Aditi Kumar

Aditi is an internationally trained Executive Coach. She has completed the ICT Programme from

Results Coaching Systems, Australia. She is also certified in the implementation & interpretation of

Hogan Assessment Systems - a global leader in personality assessment that predicts job performance

by measuring normal personality, derailment characteristics & core values.

Before making a switch to Learning & Development 3 years back, she was associated with the

corporate world in various marketing & business development roles. She has worked across industries-

publishing, advertising and IT where she has conceptualized & executed various marketing led

communication programs.

She holds a postgraduate degree in Mass Comm from Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication,

Pune. She enjoys reading, travelling, photography & music.