Meet the Catalyst Collective Team!
Meet Carol Tavernier
Carol Tavernier is an experienced Learning and Organisational Development professional with a strong creative approach who has been practicing her skills for over 20 years. Her early career and interests began in the creative fields, studying as a contemporary dancer and actress and working for several years in the television industry as a prop buyer and assistant art director.
Carol has a strong creative and conceptual mind enjoying and skilled at constructing conversations utilising OD knowledge and frameworks for better collaboration and informed outcomes. Her experience has been gained in large complex organisations in the education, charity and public sectors working across the employee life cycle. This has involved process improvement, culture and engagement work, skills gap analysis, mentoring, leadership and succession planning, coaching and mentoring to name a few; working closely with key stakeholders such as Diversity and Inclusion, HR and strategic planning for alignment to the business. She is a confident facilitator skilled in various techniques such as appreciative enquiry, action learning set facilitation, visual explorer, process mapping, storytelling, constellations and various large scale interventions all aiming to seek clarity, robust qualitative data and improved group working. She likes to think of herself as a ‘choreographer of conversations’ believing that people hold the answers to making a change, either personally or organisationally. She would say that people are her thing.
When not working she loves to read, spend time working on her allotment and walking and caring for various dogs.
Work with Carol:
contact team@catalyst-collective.com to explore how Carol can resource you and your team.
Meet Satwant Kaur:
Satwant has an established track record as a skilled consultant, facilitator and executive coach engaging global transformational leadership programmes, diversity and inclusion, leadership, team effectiveness and organisational development. She has worked with a range of international organisations for a period of twenty years. She is recognised as somebody who has a passion for success and as an innovative, challenging thinker whose personal style enables her to work alongside her clients through the difficult issues they face. She is highly regarded as a coach and consultant to chief executives and senior managers and led on design and programme delivery in South East Asia, EMEA and Africa. Satwant has designed and delivered high impact diversity and inclusion alongside anti-racist development programmes and interventions for humanitarian and community organisations, public education, health and housing sector and the private sector.
A key ambition for her is to encourage leaders to create anti-racist and more inclusive thinking and progressive practice that are central for improvement within institutions. One of her key strengths is being able to work collaboratively and collegiality providing support to organisations in promoting a dialogue and creating spaces for progressing leadership and organisational change at a systemic level.
Satwant brings energy and vibrancy and is passionate about developing organisations and enabling people to reach their optimum goals. Her inclusion lens includes expertise in cultural, social and economic diversity having delivered a wide spectrum of Global Inclusion Programmes working with of LGBT at European Commission and Gender Mainstreaming at European Parliament (including non-binary issues), mental health, disability age, religion and belief to client systems.
Satwant’s belief is that the impact of her facilitation is linked to the core of my multiple identities and, that in the current climate of global discourse this enhances spaces for dialogue and exploring spaces for conversations around Anti-Racist Discourse, Whiteness, Privilege, Power Paradigms and Intersectionality in a spectrum of leadership spaces. Satwant has a track record in designing and facilitating Inclusive Leadership programmes. This is complemented by a desire to empower learners with an intellectual appetite for increased self-awareness, knowledge and creating a platform for learning edge and curiosity. Her approach involves working at all levels with high engagement, appropriate level of challenge and supporting vulnerable participants. Her in-depth understanding of group dynamics and detailed observation is paramount to inclusion work.
Satwant is the Director of People Journeys and partners with Catalyst Collective on Inclusion, Diversity and Anti-racism work.
Work with Satwant:
contact team@catalyst-collective.com to explore how Satwant can resource you and your team.
Meet Richard Marshall:
Richard adds some deep Executive Coaching experience to the Catalyst Collective team. As a Business Psychologist, Richard brings insights into the thinking and behaviour that drives effective leadership practice. He loves releasing the potential that sometimes gets blocked or stifled and is passionate about helping leaders give more of their best more of the time. He works in D+I because when leaders lead well and inclusively, embracing diversity, then so much good can be created and achieved, both for them and for the people they lead.
Richard is the Director of Richard Marshall Coaching and partners with Catalyst Collective on senior team, exec coaching and leadership development work.
Work with Richard:
contact team@catalyst-collective.com to explore how Richard can resource you and your team.
Meet Ben Evans:
Ben Evans (Chartered MCIPD. FLPI.) has multi-sector experience in leadership, team, and skills development, Ben has been helping humans make the most of themselves and each other since 2005. His passion is enabling people to sustain high performance through coaching, training, and learning programmes with a particular emphasis on bringing together insights from the established field of leadership development with the growing body of research on workplace mental health. Ben holds two degrees – a BA (Hons.) from Exeter, and an MA from Durham University - and his interests include neuroscience, psychology, mental health and well-being, leadership theory and practice, history, and design thinking.
Ben is an accredited executive coach, a registered test user for ability and personality with the British Psychological Society, a certified trainer, and an experienced facilitator. He is a member of both the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) and the Institute of Directors (IoD), a fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute, and a registered instructor member with Mental Health First Aid England. As well as people development and performance, Ben also loves watches, motorbikes, and jazz.
Ben is the founder and a company director of Humantalk Limited and partners with Catalyst Collective on leadership development, resilience and inclusion work.
Work with Ben:
contact team@catalyst-collective.com to explore how Ben can resource you and your team.
Meet Katy Murray:
Katy is the Director of Catalyst Collective. She has 20 years’ experience working in organisational development, leadership development and transformational culture change. She’s passionate about marginalised groups having a voice, about creating safe and brave spaces for conversations that shift power dynamics and lived experience, and co-creating new ways of working together.
Katy has a Masters from Cambridge University and a Masters from University of Westminster. She’s an accredited coach with INLPTA. She’s worked across 35 countries and multiple sectors from INGOs and grassroots community organisations, to global commercial companies, retail, engineering, financial services and online entrepreneur communities.
She lives in the UK’s Lake District and travels virtually and globally to be with her clients.
Contact Katy via team@catalyst-collective.com