The product helps teams align and develop leaders faster, activate more leaders throughout an organization, and build the capabilities needed to move transformation forward at speed.

Leadership teams are expected to drive change while simultaneously navigating competing priorities, shifting roles and increasingly complex business environments. Yet many transformation efforts assume the leadership team is already operating as a high-performing team.

Kotter, the global leader in organizational adaptability and transformation, today announced the launch of The Lead Team Catalyst, a new leadership product that provides a structured suite of experiences and tools to strengthen how the organization leads and move priorities forward faster and more effectively.

Rather than taking leaders out of the business for traditional leadership development, The Lead Team Catalyst meets leaders where they are, at work. Leaders address real business challenges while simultaneously building the skills, behaviors, and the methods of working needed to lead together and activate others.

“Your transformation effort won't outperform your leadership team,” said Kathy Gersch, CEO of Kotter. “The Lead Team Catalyst helps teams garner more leadership from more people and mobilize more of the organization around the challenges and opportunities that matter most. It's leadership development that happens in the context of the work—not alongside it.”

A Product Built Around Three Leadership Needs

The Lead Team Catalyst provides leadership teams with a practical approach to address three common barriers to change:

1. Dissolve the Silos

Leadership teams learn to move beyond functional perspectives and operate as a unified team. The product helps leaders build alignment around priorities, make decisions collectively and create greater momentum across organizational boundaries.

2. Activate the Next Layer

Transformation cannot rest entirely with the C-suite. The Lead Team Catalyst helps leadership teams engage and empower the next layer of leaders, extending ownership and action throughout the organization.

3. Unlock Internal Capability

Organizations often already have the talent needed to deliver transformation. The Lead Team Catalyst helps leaders activate that internal capability by creating the conditions, practices and connections that enable more people to contribute to the work.

The result is a leadership team better equipped to align, decide, act and mobilize others as transformation unfolds.

Leadership Development That Happens in the Flow of Work

For participants, The Lead Team Catalyst is designed to make leadership development immediately relevant.

Rather than learning concepts in isolation and determining later how to apply them, leaders work with their teams on the organization's actual priorities and challenges. This enables participants to strengthen their leadership capabilities, while creating progress on the transformation itself.

The product can be used in a range of leadership scenarios, including large-scale transformations, newly formed or changing leadership teams, organizational restructures, mergers and acquisitions, leadership transitions, and environments where a team's mandate or strategic priorities have shifted.

Turning Leadership Alignment Into Organizational Action

The Lead Team Catalyst is grounded in Kotter's 50+ years of research and experience helping organizations adapt, mobilize people, and lead transformation at scale. The product is designed to connect leadership team effectiveness with the broader organizational work required to turn strategy into action.

For organizations, that means leadership development isn't a separate initiative competing for attention. It becomes part of the transformation itself.

For leaders, it means developing the ability to work across boundaries, create alignment, engage the next layer of leadership and mobilize the organization around what matters most.

Availability

The Lead Team Catalyst is available from Kotter beginning September 10, 2026.

To learn more about The Lead Team Catalyst, visit: https://hubs.li/Q04x3h810.

About Kotter

Kotter is the authority in adaptability and transformation. We help individuals and organizations better lead and manage change via world-class consulting services and leadership development training, including the Kotter Change Certification Program.

Founded by the world's foremost change expert, Dr. John Kotter, and backed by five decades of ongoing, empirical research and real-world experience in the science of change, our proven approach offers unimaginable results at unprecedented speed. Learn more at www.kotterinc.com.

View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260910228313/en/

“Your transformation effort won't outperform your leadership team. The Lead Team Catalyst helps teams garner more leadership from more people and mobilize more of the organization around the challenges and opportunities, said Kathy Gersch, CEO of Kotter.