Coaching-Based Leadership Transformation · Built for Food

Culture doesn't change unless leaders do.

We help food industry leaders and organizations build cultures where leadership drives results - at every level, across every function, for the long term.

Founded by Jill Stuber and Tia Glave - two food industry leaders who've lived the pressure from the inside. Meet them →

How We Work With You

Whether you're growing as a leader, developing your team, or transforming your organization, there's a path built for where you are.

For Individuals & Teams

Grow the leaders your organization needs.

Coaching-based programs built specifically for food industry leaders — from frontline supervisors to leaders of leaders. Real skills. Real application. Real change.

Frontline Leader · Leadership Bootcamp · Strategic Leader · Online Learning

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For Organizations

Close the leadership culture gap - for good.

Low engagement. High turnover. Initiatives that plateau. The root cause is always leadership. We diagnose what's actually happening & build a transformation plan around what we find.

Culture Diagnosis · Leadership Transformation · On-Site Consulting

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For the Food Industry

Stay sharp. Stay connected. All free.

Weekly conversations on Real Talk, free tools & downloads for every stage of leadership & a podcast built for food industry professionals. No purchase necessary - just show up.

Real Talk Live · Free Downloads · Podcast · Ask Sonia

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What We Know to Be True

Leadership development isn't a perk. It's a business strategy.

Every food company we work with is dealing with the same gap: the distance between what their organization is capable of and what it's actually delivering. That gap isn't a procedure problem. It isn't a training problem. It's a leadership culture problem.

We challenge people to reimagine leadership.

The Catalyst Method™

Every program and every enterprise engagement is built on the same science-backed framework. Not a checklist. A genuine shift in how leaders lead.

Awareness and clarity Leaders see their role in culture — not just their role in compliance. We surface the gaps that have been invisible and create the clarity that makes change possible.

Behavior change in practice Not a training event. A sustained shift in how leaders show up every day — in the small moments, under pressure, and when no one is watching.

Systems that last We build the rhythms, structures, and habits that make change compound over time — so the culture holds when we step back.

Food Companies We've Worked With

"A complete 180 from other programs full of corporate jargon and platitudes."

- Micah Gwartney, Business Development Manager

"Learning how to influence from a technical leader perspective is something I wish I had learned years ago." -

Jessica Marino, Quality & Food Safety Manager

"Bootcamp truly changed my professional life."

Hannah Davis, Supplier FSQ Manager

Why Catalyst

We've lived this work. That's why it lands differently.

We know food. We've lived the pressure, pace, and complexity of this industry. We don't need to be taught what a third-party audit means, what a production push feels like, or what it costs when a strong leader leaves.

We coach with science. Our work is grounded in adult learning, neuroscience, and the science of behavior change — not generic leadership content repackaged for food. The Catalyst Method is built to create real, lasting behavioral shifts.

We start with the mirror. We help leaders see how their own behavior is creating the culture they're frustrated by. That honest reckoning is uncomfortable. It's also why the change sticks.

We stay through the change. We don't deliver a program and disappear. We're present through the hard moments — when leadership culture is actually tested and when the real work happens.

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