Your Catalyst Team

Jason Lande

With foundations in Engineering and PMO leadership, I coach teams and organizations to innovate using empowerment, accountability, and strategic alignment as foundational principles, bringing order to chaos along the way.

I am known for an intrepid readiness to dive in alongside my teams, a keen ability to unearth cross-functional breakdowns, and a relentless, gritty determination and focus that enables my clients and teams to overcome operational dysfunction and drive impact and effectiveness.

I thrive on challenges and bring with me:

  • an exceptional ability to transact and communicate successfully with executive leadership, engineering teams, product teams, and adjacent business partners;

  • a penchant for efficiency, effectiveness, and organization, leveraging right-sized processes and tools and embedding a practice of experimentation and iterative improvement into my teams' operating approaches; and

  • 20+ years of experience working within fast-moving and highly collaborative technology environments that start out with few and/or ineffective formal processes in place.

Specialties: Organizational design, program management, portfolio, program, and project management (PPM), Agile coaching (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe expertise), cross-functional team collaboration, project and product roadmaps, process (re-)engineering, transformation, and optimization, risk management, KPIs, executive dashboards, business analysis, PI and “big room” planning, team building, release management, requirements definition and management, hands-on project management. Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Product Plan, A-Ha, Roadmunk, MS Teams, SharePoint, MS Project, CA Clarity, Certified Scrum Master (CSM).

Tracey Lande

As a partner at Catalyst & Co., I primarily work with Founder CEOs and leadership teams of tech-enabled companies.

I am known for building consequential environments, where we can collaborate to improve strategic outcomes and operational practices.

  • I have helped leadership teams successfully launch dozens of mission-critical strategic initiatives, from M&A Integration (brand strategy, acquisition readiness, due diligence, post-M&A Integration) to supply chain transformations (near-shoring China manufacturing, 3PL to 1PL) and digital transformations (sales and marketing technology, back-office systems and integrations).

  • I have over 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles in strategy, sales, revenue, operations, and marketing, with experience in start-ups, high growth, IPOs, and beyond.

  • I help cross-functional leadership teams foster stronger, more collaborative capabilities to drive superior business outcomes and impacts.

Specialties: “Listening” and mobilizing people toward the seamless organization of critical business functions; keen ability to discern patterns that could be leveraged for strategic advantage; strategic planning and facilitation; strategy implementation and facilitation; strategic off-sites; strategic initiative development and facilitation; business process gap analysis and upgrade implementation; Strategic Competence leadership training, strategic marketing.

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