For CEOs, COOs, and CIOs where growth has stalled
You know something is wrong.
You just can't name it.
Growth has stalled. The same problems keep recurring. Your best people are buried. There is one constraint causing all of it. Catalyst Works finds it — and removes it.
3 Signal Session slots available this month
The Friction Audit Starter
A 10-signal diagnostic for hidden business constraints. Check every statement true for your organization right now.
If your business is growing slower than it should, the problem isn't effort. It's one hidden constraint multiplying friction across every function.
Most executives can feel it. They can't name it. This audit is the first step to naming it.
Check everything that applies. Your score appears instantly.
In Theory of Constraints, every system has one bottleneck limiting overall throughput. It's rarely where you think it is. Identifying it precisely is what unlocks growth without adding resources.
- Your best people spend more than 30% of their time in meetings
- Customers get different answers from different team members
- You have data but it doesn't change decisions
- Revenue grew but margin didn't
- A new initiative is slower to launch than it was two years ago
- Your tech stack has more than 7 tools and no one uses all of them
- Leadership agrees in the room but execution diverges
- You're solving the same problem for the third time
- Cash flow surprises you more than once per quarter
- Your best person just left and no one knows exactly why
Four stages. One direction.
Every engagement starts with a Signal Session. What comes next depends on what we find.
Everything starts with 60 minutes and a named constraint.
A structured leadership interview using the Catalyst Works diagnostic protocol. You leave with one named constraint — written, specific, cross-functional — and a clear recommended next step.
- One named constraint statement
- Three friction signals with implications
- One recommended next action
- 1-page written summary within 24 hours
Limited to 3 sessions per month. Confirmed within 24 hours.
No pitch. No proposal. Just your constraint — named.
Most consultants want a six-week discovery before they tell you anything. Catalyst Works starts differently: one conversation, one named constraint, one action.
The Signal Session exists because executives don't need more information. They need the right one — the exact bottleneck blocking throughput. Everything else is noise until that's found.
If the session reveals a constraint worth a full Diagnostic Sprint, Boubacar will say so. There is no sales pitch inside the session. The work is the pitch.
"Running 3 Signal Sessions this week — 60 minutes, you leave with your constraint named in writing. $350. Want one?"
— The DM that closes this offerWhat happens in 60 minutes
Three focused phases. No preamble. No discovery theatre.
The Diagnostic Interview
Boubacar runs a structured interview using the Catalyst Works diagnostic protocol — mapping friction signals, decision bottlenecks, and throughput gaps in real time.
The Constraint is Named
Before the call ends, one constraint is identified and stated out loud — specifically, cross-functionally, with implications. Not a hypothesis. A diagnosis.
The Written Summary
Within 24 hours: one page. Your constraint statement, three friction signals, one recommended action. Yours to keep, act on, or share with your leadership team.
You recognize at least one of these
The symptoms differ. The root cause is always the same — one unnamed constraint compounding across every function.
"Revenue grew but margin didn't."
You're selling more and making less. Every solution has moved the problem, not removed it. The constraint is upstream of where you're looking.
"We're solving the same problem for the third time."
You've fixed it twice. It's back. That's not an execution failure — it's a signal the root constraint has never been touched.
"Your best person just left and no one knows exactly why."
Turnover is a lagging signal. By the time someone leaves, the constraint has been compounding for months. Exit interviews tell you almost nothing useful.
Ready to name your constraint?
One call. One page. $350. No pitch inside the session.
Not a vendor. A constraint remover.
Boubacar Barry — Founder, Catalyst Works
Boubacar built Catalyst Works because he kept watching the same failure repeat: smart executives, real urgency, zero movement. Not because the strategy was wrong — because the constraint had never been named.
His methodology applies Theory of Constraints to the executive layer — finding the one bottleneck blocking organizational throughput and removing it before anything else is added or changed.
He doesn't sell strategy decks. He doesn't run 12-week discovery engagements. He starts with 60 minutes and a named constraint. Everything else follows from there.
"Executives don't need more information. They need the right one — the exact constraint blocking throughput. Everything else is noise until that's found."
Boubacar Barry, Catalyst WorksYou buy clarity. He delivers throughput.
40 years of diagnostic science.
Applied to your org in 60 minutes.
The Executive Signal Session isn't intuition or consulting folklore. It's built on Theory of Constraints — a management science developed by physicist and business theorist Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt and documented in The Goal (1984).
Goldratt's core insight: every system has exactly one constraint limiting its output at any given time. Remove it, and throughput increases immediately. Add resources, headcount, or strategy before finding it, and you get noise.
TOC has been applied in manufacturing, healthcare, software, financial services, and government — by companies including Boeing, Intel, Ford, and over 3,000 hospitals worldwide. It is taught at Harvard Business School and used by the Israeli Defense Forces to manage logistics.
Catalyst Works applies the TOC diagnostic lens to the executive layer — the decisions, communications, and structures that constrain leadership throughput. The result is a named constraint, not a general observation.
Read more about Theory of Constraints →Identify the constraint
Find the single point where throughput is most limited. Not a list of problems — one specific binding constraint.
Exploit the constraint
Extract maximum output from the constraint before spending any additional resources. Most organizations skip this step entirely.
Subordinate everything else
Align all other decisions and priorities to support the constraint. What doesn't serve throughput stops consuming attention.
Elevate the constraint
If throughput is still insufficient after steps 1–3, invest to expand or remove the constraint entirely. In that order.
Name your constraint.
Then remove it.
60 minutes. One constraint named in writing. One recommended action. No pitch inside the session.
Boubacar takes 3 sessions per month. Submit today — he confirms within 24 hours.