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Catalyst Summit 2024 Highlights

July 24, 2024

How do you help nurture a change-maker’s inner journey? What inspiration, tools, and knowledge do they most need? Thank you so much to everyone who showed up at our Catalyst Summit 2024 to help us explore and understand this. We are so grateful for the contributions of experienced changemakers such as Manuella Cantalice and Bianca Pitt, She Changes Climate & Rhian Sherrington FRSA, Founder / Head Coach Women in Sustainability Network, who are already impacting the global stage. Our catalysts…

What does a Head of Corporate Responsibility do?

March 16, 2023

Traci Lewis

Kirsty Green-Mann – Head of Corporate Responsibility at Burges-Salmon – shares some insights into her job and career. I’m Head of Corporate Responsibility with Burges Salmon, a UK independent commercial law firm. My role is pretty varied it involves: framing our approach to responsible business to drive performance across environmental, social, and governance issues; contributing to a number of internal committees; oversight of relevant benchmark and award submissions and using them to drive improvements, while building strategic partnerships across our…

Catalyst Summit: 10 Reasons You Should Join Us

May 22, 2022

Traci Lewis

Are you a young woman – aged 18-26 yrs – who wants to make a difference? As we have designed a sustainability learning and mentoring programme just for you. Here are just 10 good reasons why you should probably join us: FIND YOUR PURPOSE – Our inspiring, online sustainability & green careers event, which is held over 3 days in July, will help you find your purpose & be a confident change-maker. “The Catalyst Summit gives you the opportunity to…

Embracing the uncertainty

April 18, 2020

Traci Lewis

Hellie Painter – a second year student at Exeter Uni – shares 7 ways in which she has been embracing the uncertainty caused by COVID-19. Hellie is now back at her parents home near Bath during the lockdown. She is currently wondering what to do next now that her internships have been cancelled and her final Study Abroad year is now also uncertain. The coronavirus pandemic has already caused so much uncertainty and anxiety across the world. Uncertainty around our…

Self-Love in the Time of Coronavirus

March 24, 2020

Traci Lewis

Taryn Everdeen share’s her experiences of the coronavirus outbreak this year and the coping strategies she has put in place to deal with it. Well, there’s no denying it: we are living in very strange times. Everything feels more than a little surreal. The UK has finally pretty much gone into lock down. I first heard about the novel coronavirus at the end of January, when one of my Facebook friends who was living in a neighbouring province of Wuhan…

Changemaker Voices: What did the Catalyst Bootcamp do for me?

January 23, 2020

Traci Lewis

Name: Abi Reeves I’m 19 years old and currently studying English at the University of Bristol. I come from a little town called Horsham in West Sussex. I spend a lot of my time reading – for my degree and for fun – running, and playing basketball. What would your dream job be? My dream job would be to be a full-time writer. Why did you come on the Catalyst Bootcamp? I’m very interested in climate change and the idea…

Grace: My Life as a Food Entrepreneur & Wellness Coach

December 3, 2019

Traci Lewis

Grace Ekall, who delights & inspires us with her dance and wellbeing workshop at the Catalyst Bootcamp tells us about her amazing life and career journey so far. Name: Grace Ekall Job title: Food entrepreneur & wellness coach I was born in Cameroon in Central Africa. My dad was a teacher, then businessman – owned his own Timber company. My mum was a nurse but stayed at home, at some point, to look after my 10 siblings and I. French…

Catalyst Life S.A.V.E.R.S – Wake Up to your full potential

August 30, 2019

Traci Lewis

At times life can be difficult and we can all do with a bit of support to help us deal with some of the daily challenges we face. Building Resilience So it can be really useful having a toolbox of techniques available to help make it easier to bounce back. This is what is known as resilience.Resilience is defined as “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties” and it is a useful skill to build. Part of building resilience is…