creating clarity and momentum in complexity.
We work with leadership teams to bring people and ideas together, cocreate strategy and catalyse action.
What we do
We help leadership teams to:
- Understand the system they are operating within.
- Surface competing priorities.
- Clarify what matters most and make choices.
- Strengthen trust, relationships and partnerships.
- Translate direction into coordinated action and ownership.
The result is renewed confidence and forward movement.
How we do it
We work at the intersection of strategy, people and systems.
We combine:
- Systems-level insight
- Deep listening and relational intelligence
- Structured strategic thinking
- Practical focus on action
We don’t deny complexity.
We help teams to navigate it.
Our Services
Strategic clarity and focus
Leadership alignment, governance and growth
Multi-team collaboration and convening
Strategy is not about the document. Your strategy needs to actively help you navigate reality, in all its messiness, to deliver on your goals.
Good strategy means making choices, naming tradeoffs, being clear on what you'll not do, and ensuring it is owned in the right places.
We can work alongside you, your teams, clients and communities, to cut through complexity and define a focused direction that builds alignment and creates movement.
Multi-team collaboration and convening
Leadership alignment, governance and growth
Multi-team collaboration and convening
We design and facilitate high stakes conversations that build shared understanding and aligned direction across diverse stakeholders – especially when authority is distributed and relationships matter.
From long term partnerships to board meetings, problem solving workshops to conferences we cocreate high impact engagements that build alignment, energy and momentum.
Leadership alignment, governance and growth
Leadership alignment, governance and growth
Leadership alignment, governance and growth
Delivering on a big agenda requires committed, aligned leadership, whether that’s your management team, board, or collective.
We help leadership teams strengthen cohesion, clarify roles and intent, and build the collective capacity to deliver together – particularly through growth and transition.
Who we are
Working in collaboration to create the right mix of capability
Cocreate Catalyst was founded by Adam Jay to help leadership teams create clarity and momentum in complex environments.
Adam works at the intersection of strategy and relationships – bringing structured strategic thinking, careful listening and confident facilitation to challenges where progress has slowed or direction feels fragmented. He has worked in collaboration, strategy and transformation for close to 20 years and has continued to extend his work in a number of directions over that time. He works in corporate transformation, systems change, collective impact and cross-sector collaboration.
Cocreate Catalyst operates as a networked practice.
For each engagement, we partner with trusted experts, facilitators, designers, creatives and content specialists to bring the right mix of capabilities to the table. This allows us to scale thoughtfully and draw on specialist expertise where needed – without the overhead or rigidity of a fixed consultancy model.
Every engagement is grounded in clarity, alignment and practical progress.
Principles: How do we shape our work?
Every engagement is different, but there are some principles that help us to design each engagement:
- Clarity over simplicity – We don’t rush to neat answers. We take the time to listen and to understand the full shape of the challenge before helping teams define what matters most. You can expect depth before direction.
- Serve the problem, not the framework – We draw on a wide range of strategic and systems approaches, but we’re not wedded to any single methodology. We’re not dogmatic about practice but rather we go with what fits and what works… for you, for us, for the work.
- Design for learning – the one thing we’re sure of is that we won’t know all the answers before we start. We design processes that build the capability to adapt - strengthening feedback, reflection and decision-making habits so direction can evolve without losing coherence.
- Put people first – We achieve better outcomes when we do it with the right people, experiences and expertise in the conversation. Working with diversity creates possibility but it doesn't happen by chance - we help groups build relationship, trust, and capability as we go.