#1 Team-Based Accelerator for Established Businesses in Western Canada
Designed for established businesses, Growth Catalyst offers leadership teams dedicated time away from daily operations to develop actionable Strategic Growth Plans. Over a seven-month hybrid program, your team will collaborate with peers, advisors, and coaches to assess your current business model, strengthen core operations, and identify major growth opportunities. Overcome stagnation, diversify your business, and drive long-term success with Growth Catalyst.
95
Businesses participated in the Growth Catalyst program to date
357
Established business leaders participated to date
$1.07M+
Gross revenue increase, per company within 12 months of starting the program
20.1%
Average revenue increase, per company within 12 months of starting the program
4.5
New jobs created, per company within 12 months of starting the program
95
Businesses participated in the Growth Catalyst program to date
357
Established business leaders participated to date
$1.07M+
Gross revenue increase, per company within 12 months of starting the program
20.1%
Average revenue increase, per company within 12 months of starting the program
4.5
New jobs created, per company within 12 months of starting the program
Revenue and number of jobs created was averaged across 22 companies surveyed from the first and second cohort.
Transforming Challenges into Strategic Growth
We understand the sleepless nights, the struggle of finding strategic clarity, and the frustration of stalled growth. The Growth Catalyst program is meticulously designed to tackle these specific issues, offering concrete solutions through a structured yet flexible curriculum.
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Stagnant Growth
We facilitate the creation of proven frameworks designed to help your business break through growth plateaus. Through comprehensive market analysis, innovation workshops, and strategic planning sessions, your leadership team can pinpoint untapped opportunities and implement actionable strategies to reignite growth and drive your business forward.
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Leadership Challenges
Engage a core group of cross-functional leaders from your organization in our team-based program to achieve seamless alignment to prioritize your strategic direction. Utilize shared language, common tools, leadership assessments, and executive coaching to develop talent within your organization, strengthening core business functions and preparing for sustainable growth.
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Low Market Penetration
Your team will be equipped with essential tools and frameworks to evaluate your current market strategy and future-proof your business for sustained success. Take proactive steps to strengthen your core offerings and explore new avenues for growth and diversification, expanding your market reach and maximizing impact.
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Talent Retention and Development
The program provides your business with a unique opportunity to develop internal talent by involving core, cross-functional leaders in strategic planning. As you craft your Strategic Growth Plan, you will learn to effectively leverage current internal strengths aligned with growth objectives and identify areas needing development to achieve your goals.
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Financial Management and Funding
You'll learn to assess your financial health, determine the right timing for seeking external capital, and craft compelling pitches for funding. We help you explore various funding sources and create accurate financial models to secure the best financial partners for growth.
Achieve Clarity, Confidence, and Growth
Team Alignment
Growth Catalyst fosters cross-functional team alignment, enhancing accountability, clarity, and confidence in decision-making. This collaborative approach ensures your team is united, leveraging diverse perspectives to drive ambitious growth strategies and create a dynamic organizational culture.
Strategic Direction
Leverage the best practices on scaling to develop a clear, scalable playbook for growth. Transform from reactive to strategic leadership, focusing on innovation and sustainable business practices that ensure long-term success.
Pressure Testing with Peers & Advisors
Engage with peers and seasoned advisors across diverse industries to pressure-test your ideas and strategies in a collaborative environment. This approach breaks the echo-chamber of internal and industry-specific advice, fostering innovation and cross-pollination of ideas for more comprehensive growth strategies.
Your Next Stage of Growth Starts Here
Growth Catalyst is expanding across Western Canada in 2025 - bringing mid-size companies in Alberta and Saskatchewan the strategy, coaching, and leadership alignment they need to scale with confidence.
Now accepting applications for upcoming cohorts in Calgary and Saskatoon.
Alberta Cohort
Join a dynamic cohort of mid-sized businesses from across Alberta in this Calgary-based program. Whether you're from Edmonton, Calgary, or beyond, this is your opportunity to align your leadership team and build a strategy for your next stage of growth.
Saskatchewan Cohort
Designed for ambitious mid-sized businesses across Saskatchewan, this Saskatoon-based cohort offers the structure, coaching, and peer network needed to scale with confidence.
What’s Included in the Program
Break free from the cycle of burn out, uncertainty and stagnation and discover the path to dynamic growth. Over the course of seven months, the Growth Catalyst program is designed to guide you through transformative experiences, equipping you with strategies, insights, and support.
Growth Workshops
Join us for ten one-day workshops with thought leaders to catalyze your strategic growth.
Experiential Learning
Engage in highly interactive, peer-based learning throughout the modules to immediately apply the learnings to your business.
Advice from Industry Experts
Access functional industry experts through our Growth Navigator Network for guidance anytime during and outside of program delivery.
Opportunity to engage in Student Work-Integrated Learning
Access functional industry experts through our Growth Navigator Network for guidance anytime during and outside of program delivery.
Strategic Growth Coaching
Receive customized insights during ten coaching sessions to scale your company.
Ready to Build an Ambitious & Actionable Strategy for Growth?
Overcome your toughest business challenges with confidence and clarity. At Growth Catalyst, we help you develop the strategic direction and provide expert support to catalyze your next growth episode.
Trusted by Established Business Leaders
Our company has been around for a few years, and my only regret is that we didn’t have a program like this 15 years ago. After a while within a company, you sometimes lose or narrow the vision of where your company should go. This program will widen that vision and you’ll see things maybe you didn’t see before.
Omar Hamdon
Hamdon Energy Solutions
The Growth Catalyst program has had an awesome impact on vrCAVE and it really helped us focus on working on the business instead of in the business. If you’re at the right stage of company, this is a great place to both train and to also communicate as a leadership team and them to also look much more towards the future boldly and look at opportunities on the horizon.
Alex Rossol
vrCAVE
The way we were able to engage with other companies in a variety of industries, not just technology, has given us a really holistic views of the challenges businesses like us face. But we all often hear the same kind of approach to these business challenges, which creates kind of an echo chamber. So the Growth Catalyst programs was much more holistic in many regards, and hearing those perspectives I think gave us new ideas of how to approach the problems.
Luke Statt
EWI Works
Powered by MRU
Growth Catalyst is powered by Mount Royal University (MRU). The mission of MRU's Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is to develop high-impact talent essential to Alberta's economic prosperity. This is achieved by delivering transformative, community-engaged learning experiences that empower business leaders to drive meaningful growth and innovation.
The Growth Catalyst program is funded in part by TD Ready Commitment Foundation, Alberta Innovates, and the Government of Canada through PrairiesCan, with a special thank you to Cathy and Bruce Williams.
