CEOs of companies of all sizes, across multiple industries and facing different challenges, utilize our program to accelerate performance improvement. 

  • Multiple industries including financial services, insurance, utilities/energy and consumer goods, among others
  • Large-cap, publicly traded Fortune 500 corporations and privately held companies
  • Workforces of 2,000 to over 200,000 employees
  • Typically, mid- to top-performers in their industries

Project Catalyst has been instrumental in driving efficiency, helping us bend the cost curve and running our company better.

Dermot McDonogh,
Chief Financial Officer
American Electric Power logo

Achieving Excellence, a structured employee-owned process, has quickly helped us identify, value and implement ways to optimize our expenses, take advantage of opportunities, and find new ways to serve our customers' needs.

Nick Akins,
Chairman and CEO

New BAC is core to our strategy to align resources, remove obstacles to serve customers better and to operate as a more focused, streamlined company.

Brian Moynihan,
Chairman & CEO

By simplifying each process and working more effectively, we will be able to fund growth, eliminate frustrating activities and focus on better serving our customers.

Bill Johnson,
Chairman and CEO

Accelerate is enabling us to lower our unit cost, shift more of our cost to a variable basis and focus our engineering and operations talent on areas of competitive advantage. But more importantly, it's transforming the way we operate the business and the culture of the company.

Scott Sanborn,
CEO
Safeco, a Liberty Mutual Company

It has been rewarding to see the organization step up to this challenge and be smart about collaboration in order to identify and capture very meaningful opportunities.

Kris Hill,
SVP and CFO

ELEVATION was an amazing experience that challenged us to think big, encourage growth, increase engagement and improve efficiency. ELEVATION was not just about ideas, it was about taking actions to become a bigger, stronger and better company.

John Roberts,
President and CEO

During Horizon we looked end-to-end throughout the company to find and implement substantive ways to operate better, simplify processes and improve how we get our work done.

Todd Zimmerman,
CEO

The process and outcomes exceeded my expectations. The work we are doing to improve our company will enable us to deliver even more value as we strive to create a clear, simple, and certain experience for customers.

Timothy J. Mayopoulos,
President and CEO

PNC emerges from this process a stronger, more efficient organization. We have developed ways to increase our customer facing staff and save hundreds of millions of dollars.

Jim Rohr,
Chairman and CEO
Sempra logo

Fueling our Future galvanized our entire organization to advance our leadership position as a safe, reliable and global energy leader.

Debra L. Reed,
Chairman and CEO
Entergy

Employee Driven Excellence (EDE) helped us develop a roadmap to transform our business in order to deliver the performance our stakeholders expect.

Leo Denault,
Chairman and CEO

In addition to achieving thousands of great ideas to improve our earnings, Titan demonstrated the power and value of working as a single-focused, global company.

Jeff Joerres,
Chairman and CEO

LIFT engaged our employees to generate ideas to enhance process change and lead to improved efficiency. Millions of dollars in cost reductions and revenue enhancements are expected as the company builds a culture of continuous improvement.

Gerry Lipkin,
Chairman

The results have been outstanding. Project Remodel was a terrific success. The project will be the catalyst that helps us reach our goals and accelerate the growth of our business segments.

James E. Dwyer,
Chairman and CEO

CIN-10 was an incredible awakening. We’ve never been this smart about our business.

Jim Rogers,
Chairman and CEO

TOP will drive us to do the right things to serve customers well and operate as efficiently and effectively as possible.

Bruce Van Saun,
Chairman and CEO

The process is terrific for breaking down silos, and until you take an enterprise-wide perspective – you are going to miss a lot.

Bob Restrepo,
Chairman and CEO
Birds Eye

Optima is a growth catalyst that will help Birds Eye achieve our goals much faster and with certainty.

Neil Harrison,
Chairman and CEO

Our goal has been and remains: to become more competitive by reducing costs, eliminating waste and optimizing business processes while improving customer service.

Tony Earley,
Chairman and CEO
Giant Eagle

This disciplined and collaborative approach will enable us to streamline operations and accelerate our reinvestment into our customer value proposition.

Laura Karet,
CEO

It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Project Ascend, which has ramifications far beyond the earnings improvement it will generate.

Larry Dunigan,
Chairman

I’ve never, in my 18 years as CEO, had such a detailed evaluation of the business. It was fascinating and exhilarating at the same time.

Wes von Schack,
Chairman and CEO

The innovation and creativity that was unleashed was simply amazing… and it would not have happened without the facilitation and leadership that came from our EHS team.

Barry Uber,
President and CEO

Our business runs at a very fast pace—EHS’ process was able to work effectively within this environment and actually help us speed up the achievement of our goals.

Terry Considine,
Chairman and CEO

The process of the people closest to the decision making, closest to the operations, closest to the customer coming up with the ideas made this such a success.

Henry Meyer,
Chairman and CEO

Mission Onward was a powerful catalyst in unleashing creativity of all the organization. It left us with a clear roadmap and an improved culture of collaboration and responsibility.

Paul Greig,
Chairman and CEO

The implementation of Avanza will put Willis in a significantly stronger competitive position and provide important benefits to our customers, our associates and our shareholders.

Joe Plumeri,
Executive Chairman and CEO

With UPExcel, we have now created best practice approaches, strengthened our management processes and disciplines, and provided the financial resources for future investments.

Jack Moore,
CEO

The greater efficiency from this project places Provident in a stronger competitive position and allows us to provide significant future benefits to our shareholders, customers and associates.

Bob Hoverson,
President and CEO

I’ve been involved in a number of improvement initiatives throughout my career. I’ve never seen a higher level of engagement and commitment than I have with VIP.

John Giblin,
EVP and CFO

Mission Excel is a balanced program that funds significant business growth and technology investments by redeploying resources generated through efficiency improvements.

Takahiro Moriguchi,
President and CEO

I’m convinced that the ideas from Flight 125 are a crucial step toward helping us achieve our long-term goal of running a sustainable, independent company.

Greg Ness,
Chairman and CEO

Using EHS, we got to the heart of the matter—and extraordinarily quickly.

Jack O’Brien,
CEO

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