Unlock wellbeing for engineers
New approaches based on research and positive psychology.
Our workshop with Dr Jo-Anne Tait and Dr Jan Peters MBE promises to open your eyes and help you take ownership of your wellbeing programme in a new way.
How does your wellbeing programme match up?
This year’s public workshop has now passed, and we only offer public workshops annually. Why not book your own?
Workshops for individuals
We equip individuals with the self-awareness and tools they need to create and sustain an inclusive environment.
Development for teams
Ready to level up your STEM team? We energise and empower your employees to be better teammates and do better work.
Strategy for organisations
Pioneers in the industry, we’re shifting the conversation. We develop tools, consult on curriculum, and measure progress.
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
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
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
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.
Rationalise
Step 1 - helping engineers andscientists connect with the relevance of diversity and inclusion to themself and their role.
Internalise
Step 2 - when you see the relevance you start to notice what you could do and what you have control over.
Strategise
Step 3 - there are so many things we could do, we become overwhelmed. Our toolkit helps academics and business leaders prioritise
Energise
Step 4 - Small steps get things moving. Showing others what you have achieved helps create cutlural shift.
Who we work with
