Bring Your People
Back To Purpose

Tackle institution-wide systems and operations challenges for good, and turn your energy toward institutional excellence and student success.

Digital Transformation | Systems Integration | People Performance

For over 15 years, we’ve been helping elite higher-education institutions solve persistent operational challenges, reclaim their time and energy to focus on student success.

The purpose of the world’s ﬁnest learning institutions and their people is to advance student excellence, not to troubleshoot constant system challenges.

We help you untangle the complex systems and
resolve your most persistent, pervasive pain points, and get back to purpose.

Our Full Suite of Consulting Solutions

Institutional Digital Transformation

• Align digital transformation with organizational goals

• Amplify technology capabilities

• Build future-ready organizations where talent thrives

Ellucian Solutions Specialization

• Reinvent IT infrastructure with cloud platforms

• Implement fast, tech-enabled, frictionless workflows

• Integrate IT operations to enhance efficiency

Strategic Advisory

• Empower organizations to create value through people and teams

• Embrace adaptive resilience during volatility

• Prepare future-ready workforce equipped to deliver highest value

Executive Leadership Coaching

• Inspire confidence

• Execute effective decision making

• Accelerate organizational results

Team Development Programs

• Ensure teams are set up for success

• Accelerate performance

• Build capacity and sustainable change

Strategic Workshops

• Assess team resiliency to respond to change and disruption

• Identify leadership strategies for navigating uncertainty and complexity

• Adopt human-centric change approach to strengthen organizational health and performance

Top 5 Times Clients Reach Out To Us

1 When the leadership team experiences decision avoidance that costs them time and resources on high stakes issues and initiatives.

2 When insufficient staff, resources, and expertise prevent departments from maximizing your technology systems.

3 When high employee turnover results in the loss of critical institutional knowledge.

4 When leaders turn tone-deaf, do not mitigate a culture of intimidation and retaliation that drive up personnel costs.

5 When new leaders lack the skillset to set measurable goals, provide effective feedback, or motivate teams to achieve their goals.

Our Customized Process to Solve Your Unique Challenges

Let’s Talk About How We Can Help

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What Our Clients Have to Say

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Provost, Yale University
New Haven, CT

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New Haven, CT

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New Haven, CT

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New Haven, CT

About Us

We help higher education institutions solve persistent systems and operational challenges that impact their people and organizational eﬃciency.

We specialize in designing and delivering digital transformation solutions that ﬁnally solve systems integration challenges and eliminate the additional, ancillary systems added to augment incomplete integrations and reclaim the lost investment dollars, focus and energy of their people, and redirect them toward cultivating student admissions excellence across the institution.

What separates Catalyst to Excel from global management consulting giants, digital transformation or systems integration consulting ﬁrms, is how our solutions are aligned to optimize both systems and people; to alleviate the obstacles in operationalizing complex technology, as well as helping people better adapt to systems eﬃciency and be empowered to return their focus and energy toward advancing institutional initiatives.

Barbara Basel, CEO and institutional operations expert, has 30+ years of direct senior administration experience and operations optimization expertise leading transformation and efficiency initiatives in some of the world’s greatest learning institutions.

We deliver comprehensive solutions that liberate institutions. As a result, our clients transform the workplace for their people, and accelerate and sustain progress in their institutional initiatives.