Jon Kirk

Jon is an Associate Partner at Catalyst with over 20 years’ experience in strategy development, business improvement, and operational excellence. He focuses on simplifying complexity into clear, sustainable solutions.

Professional Background

Jon is an Associate Partner at Catalyst with over 20 years’ experience in strategy development, business improvement, and operational excellence. He focuses on simplifying complexity into clear, sustainable solutions.

Recent Experience

Jon has delivered improvement programmes across utilities, government, housing, facilities management, call centres, and leisure sectors, working with leaders and front-line teams.

Agile Transformation & Leadership

Jon specialises in strategy deployment, performance measurement, business process improvement, and workshop facilitation, aligning organisations around customer-focused goals.

Major Achievements

Jon led a major call-centre improvement delivering over £200k annual savings and improved customer outcomes through communication cells and VoC-aligned KPIs.

Catalyst & Industry Roles

John works with Catalyst clients to design and deploy practical improvement frameworks while building internal capability through coaching and training.

Qualifications & Professional Background

Jon holds an MBA from Warwick University and an Honours degree in Biological Sciences from Plymouth University, and is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

International & Enterprise Expertise

Jon has worked across enterprise and operational settings, aligning executive scorecards with front-line delivery systems across multiple sectors.

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