The Catalyst Intensive
Six weeks.
Four phases.
Two focused days.
Transform complexity into clarity.
FOR FOUNDERS, EXECUTIVES, AND INVESTORS READY TO SCALE, REIMAGINE, OR LAUNCH
You’ve built something meaningful. Now you’ve reached an inflection point — you need to get further, faster.
The Catalyst Intensive brings together a cross-sector team of senior advisors to excavate your vision, pressure-test your assumptions, and build a roadmap you can act on immediately. All delivered with the warmth, hospitality, and holistic care that define our approach.
Is the Catalyst Intensive Right for You?
We would say yes if:
You’re at a clear inflection point—launching, scaling, reimagining, or navigating a major transition
Your key decision-makers can be present and fully engaged
You’re prepared to act on what’s uncovered within 30–90 days
You want clarity, alignment, and momentum
If that sounds like you, the next step is a complimentary 30-minute discovery call.
We would say not yet if:
You’re still seeking basic validation or early-stage consensus
You want implementation done for you rather than strategic partnership with you
Your organization isn’t yet ready to prioritize leadership-level strategy
A Note From Us The Catalyst Intensive is where we recommend every client relationship begin. It's how we earn the right to advise you—by doing the deep work of understanding your organization before we prescribe anything. What comes after the Intensive depends on what we uncover together: some clients take their roadmap and run, others choose to continue with ongoing Events & Advisory services.
Not quite there yet? We're happy to talk through where you are. Sometimes a conversation is all it takes to know whether the timing is right.
What You'll Leave With
Most strategies fail because they don't account for the teams and people who have to execute them. Deliverables matter. The real value of the Catalyst Intensive is the decisions it unlocks and the steps it clarifies. We design growth strategies that honor the gifts, capacity, and well-being of the people who will implement them.
Our Catalyst Intensives are built for leadership teams ready to move from fog to clarity.
Tailored: The entire agenda is built around your specific challenges, stage, and goals. No templates. No assumptions.
Collaborative: We work with you, not at you. Strategy created together, not handed down.
Comprehensive: We address strategy, operations, systems, marketing, partnerships, and culture in an integrated way because growth that ignores any one of these doesn’t last.
Experiential: This isn’t a sterile boardroom exercise. Every detail—from the environment to the meals—signals intentional care. It’s part retreat, part intensive work session, and that balance is where the best thinking happens.
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What must happen in the next 90–180 days to unlock momentum for you and your team.
This is your tactical guide to implement all of the learnings from the intensive immediately. Inclusive of a 60-minute post-intensive review call for implementation support.
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We’ll help you identify where growth is constrained and why which result in clear vision, revenue goals, quarterly milestones, and accountability roles.
This includes your operations covering systems, growth capacity planning, revenue architecture, and partnership ecosystem.
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Precision for how strategy, marketing, systems, operations, and culture must align to support the next phase.
Complete with messaging pillars, audience strategy, and a campaign roadmap.
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To help you craft an events strategy to build brand affinity, elevate customers sales and experience, and accelerate your growth.
Note: Above is a selection of our most in-depth content deliverables available. We will work with you to tailor your specific needs to ensure you have everything you need. All Intensives include The Catalyst Roadmap.
Intensive Process
A six-week engagement. Four distinct phases. Two focused days as the focal point. A team of senior advisors focused entirely on you.
01 / DISCOVERY & DESIGN — Three Weeks
Before we gather, we do the work to understand your organization. Through an in-depth intake process we come to your organization’s story, stage, challenges, and ambitions. From there, we design a fully customized intensive agenda—built around what matters most to you right now. No templates. No assumptions.
02 / THE INTENSIVE — Two Days
Over two focused days, you sit down with our Catalyst Advisors—a cross-sector team of senior strategists spanning operations, revenue, marketing, partnerships, events, and culture. Together, we excavate your vision, pressure-test your assumptions, and build real plans you can act on. The environment is intentional too: warm, curated, and designed to help you think clearly. This is part retreat, part working session—and that balance is where the best thinking happens.
03 / YOUR ROADMAP — Two Weeks
Within two weeks, you'll receive polished, robust deliverables built around the priorities we uncover together, including your Catalyst Roadmap, Strategic Growth Roadmap, and any additional frameworks scoped during Discovery. No generic playbooks. Only the strategies your organization actually needs right now. Every intensive is different because every organization is different.
04 / MOMENTUM CHECK
A 60-minute post-intensive review call ensures your team stays aligned and your plan stays on track.
We revisit priorities, troubleshoot early obstacles, and make sure clarity turns into action.
Your Investment
A six-week engagement. Four distinct phases. Two focused days. A cross-sector advisory team. Everything you need to move from fog to a plan you can act on immediately.
The Catalyst Intensive is designed to compress time, reduce risk, and eliminate costly misalignment. Clients choose this engagement to fast-track clarity that would otherwise take months of fragmented discovery, and to avoid the false starts, stalled initiatives, and sunk-cost strategies that come from moving without a plan. The real cost isn't investing in clarity. It's delaying decisions when momentum matters most.
*Catalyst Intensives are offered on a limited basis—only a handful of engagements are available each quarter.
This is a six-week strategic engagement anchored by two immersive days with our advisory team — with weeks of discovery before and actionable deliverables after.
A focused, high-impact sprint to crystallize strategy and next actions—designed for founders, small business owners, or individual leaders navigating a clear decision point who need momentum, not a full-scale engagement.
Catalyst Advisors
The secret to The Catalyst Intensive isn’t just the process—it’s the people. Your Catalyst Advisors are senior leaders from across strategy, operations, marketing, partnerships, events, and culture who have spent decades building and scaling organizations that create impact.
We don’t just consult, we roll up our sleeves and build with you.
Suzanna Hendricks
CEO, Co-Founder17+ years at the intersection of nonprofit executive leadership & immersive event direction—helping organizations find their footing, build infrastructure, & produce experiences (110+ events) that moved thousands across Salesforce, IJM, & Governor-led initiatives, generating $70M+ in impact.
Sara Hendricks Levine
COO, Co-FounderBilingual operations and program management leader with a background spanning Salesforce platform instruction, grant management, & cross-functional program delivery—125+ technical courses & a 4.9/5 lifetime student rating.
Brooke Gray
Senior Catalyst Advisor, Expansion & Strategy18 years building & scaling community-centered programs—grew Every Child from a grassroots Portland initiative to a multi-state model, managing $6M+ budgets & aligning 50+ competing stakeholders around shared action.
Brianna Gehring
Senior Catalyst Advisor, Growth & ProgramsFrom IJM Chief of Staff overseeing $9M regional budgets to U.S. Department of State Senior Advisor managing $125M+ in active awards—18 years building, funding, & scaling programs across four (4) continents.
Bryan Funk
Senior Catalyst Advisor, Marketing & GrowthGrowth marketing leader who has scaled B2B SaaS companies from Series A to $25M+ ARR—with roots in nonprofit fundraising & mobilization, including the KONY 2012 campaign that reached over 100 million people.
Gabby Watson, P-LPC, NCC
Intensive Operations, People StrategyFrom managing IJM's global staff retreat to directing marketing at Generous.Life to practicing as a provisional licensed counselor in Mississippi, Gabby brings 15 years of ops, events, & understanding of the people side of organizational growth.
What Makes Catalyst Advisors Different
Cross-Sector Mastery
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Unlike traditional consultants who specialize in one lane, your Catalyst Advisors bring complementary expertise from Fortune 500 tech, global nonprofits, government initiatives, B2B SaaS, and large-scale event production. This means you get integrated solutions; not siloed recommendations.
Senior-Level Experience Only
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Every advisor brings decades of senior leadership experience. No junior consultants. No learning on your dime. You work directly with the people who have led strategy, built teams, launched products, and scaled revenue at the organizations you respect.
Builders, Not Just Strategists
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Your Catalyst Advisors aren’t ivory tower thinkers. They’ve built infrastructure, scaled teams, launched campaigns, secured funding, and navigated the messy realities of organizational growth. They understand what it takes to go from plan to execution.
Women-led with Purpose
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Hendricks & Co. is a women-led strategic growth and event agency. We bring a values-driven, people-first approach to every engagement. We only work with organizations creating more good in the world; and we show up with the kind of care, rigor, and courage that reflects that commitment.