AWARD-WINNING INCLUSION INNOVATORS

Our team

Dr Jan Peters MBE

Founder and CEO

Helen Shipton

Community Manager

Dr Sean McWhinnie

Facilitator and analyst

Becca Perl

communication specialist

What our clients say

Making the Most of You,” has benefited more than 1500 of our engineering doctoral students. This workshop not only fosters connections among students but also introduces an extensive vocabulary to help them understand their motivations, build relationships, and effectively manage their supervisors—a common challenge in many PhD journeys. Jan’s coaching and this workshop have undoubtedly saved numerous PhDs!

Dr Manni Bhatti, UCL Engineering CDT Leader

Since 2014, our innovative mentoring programme has supported over 700 undergraduate and postgraduate female engineers. Katalytik Ltd has delivered a backbone of CliftonStrengths workshops to our students and industry for the last 10 years. Feedback from participants consistently mention transformational mentoring supported by Katalytik. "I just want to share some feedback from students and industry mentors who attended a Saturday strengths workshop led by Jan - "You were absolutely great. An engineer helping people to reach their goals", "Jan is an amazing presenter and very engaging, she's absolutely brilliant at spontaneous advice and her anecdotes certainly made the day very fun and lively and relatable", "Thank you for a great encouragement and reminding us that all of us are great". Thank you Jan."

Giselle Hayward, Brunel University WIBEC Mentoring Manager

In particular, Katalytik are grandmaster practitioners of CliftonStrengths which have allowed myself and others to take a reflective viewpoint on our communications and inter-team skills. The work delivered by Katalytik (for Brunel University and WiBEC) has supported me in my mentoring journey and as discussed here, I have also seen the benefit of this, in both with other mentors as well as other learners on their journey. I have witnessed this at Undergraduate to post-Doctoral levels. Further, some of the training done with Katalytik has also helped me in my relationships with work colleagues and allowed me to understand my own skill set, importantly also developing awareness of my own learning blind spots.

Kenny Green, Head of Support Engineering, Colt. Designation

Katalytik supports my work as a Mentor and by tailoring the approach ensures that my mentees build on their strength, develop their strategic thinking, relationship building, and execution to become effective leaders who inspire and guide their team toward success. This positive reinforcement contributes to their professional growth. This unique approach plays a pivotal role in understanding and maximising their strengths. Jan's and Helen's work and vision has proven to be valuable tool for young engineers, enabling them to enhance their skills, collaborate more effectively and achieve their goals.

Adrienne Houston CEO Accuena Ltd

Jan is helping us focus on transforming our cultures for staff and students in engineering. She brings an energizing and innovative approach to diversity, equity and inclusion that is much more engaging than our institutional training material. Jan is shifting the conversation from one which focused on the experiences of Women in Engineering to one which takes a much broader view of excluded groups and is helping us to take a systematic approach. She’s been able to add things into our modules that as a delivery team we’ve not had the chance to do before.

Professor Carol Morris Professor of Engineering Education

Jan Peters of Katalytik Ltd’s contribution to the engineering education curriculum design was invaluable at the configuration and validation of the portfolio of the new engineering provision at Canterbury Christ Church University. Jan helped ensure the curriculum content was fit for purpose to develop student learning in critical engineering practice. Also, that the curriculum embraced good practice inclusive engineering education habits. In particular in addressing the biomedical engineering curriculum encapsulated engineering education that ensured the students learn to research, design and develop inclusive engineering solutions for biomedical problems, i.e. solutions that are fit for purpose for all stakeholders; patient, health professionals and equipment providers.

Professor Anne Nortcliffe Founding Head of School of Engineering, Technology and Design| School of Engineering, Technology and Design

Our method

Our extensive research found that problem-solving engineers couldn’t make the connection between building inclusive cultures and their study or work, so it all seemed irrelevant. We knew there was scope for a process to help, so we designed our own method. It helps our clients to rationalise around the relevance and put people at the heart of the engineering endeavour.