By invitation · Salt Lake City
How you are received decides how far you go.
Utah companies have built a proud international track record. In changing times that record gets tested: expectations shift, ways of working differ, and the way you intend to be seen is not always the way you land. The Utah Catalyst Group brings leaders together to work on what that takes.
If you want to be perceived the way you intend, do you know how your people and partners actually feel, and how to get the best from your global team?
3.6m
People in Utah, about one percent of the US market. Serious scale means crossing a border.
$22.4bn
Utah goods exported to 198 countries in 2025, supporting more than 73,000 jobs.
37%
Median favorable view of the United States across 36 countries in 2026. In Canada, the share calling the US a reliable partner fell from 83% in 2022 to 35%.
These are national opinions, and buyers judge a supplier on its own record. They describe the conditions in which that record now has to be earned. Sources: Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, Utah International Trade 2025 and long-term projections; Pew Research Center, June 2026.
Why now
The gap between how you mean to come across and how people experience you.
Utah companies carry a good name abroad, earned over decades through long-term relationships, straight dealing and quiet competence. That reputation is an asset worth protecting, and the conditions around it have changed. Partners and employees in other markets now hold different expectations about how decisions get made, how disagreement is handled and how quickly a company says something difficult out loud.
The gap shows up inside the team before it shows up in the numbers. A regional leader stops raising problems. A partner goes quiet. A decision agreed in the room gets reinterpreted on the way home. None of it appears in a report, and all of it decides whether people give you their best.
Leaders rarely get to compare notes on this with people facing the same thing at the same time. That is what this group is for.
The Catalyst Group
A small group of Utah leaders, working on the same question at the same time.
Facilitated by Xenergie, hosted in Salt Lake City, and built on the simple idea that leaders learn fastest from peers who are one step ahead or one step behind them on the same road.
By invitation
Eight to twelve senior leaders from different, non-competing Utah companies. Each place is offered, not sold.
Facilitated, not networked
Xenergie brings a systemic method and thirty years of work inside scaling and multinational organizations.
Confidential
A clear agreement on confidentiality and no selling between members. Candor is the point.
Short and practical
A first session in Salt Lake City, then a rhythm the group sets. Each leader leaves with something to act on.
What the group explores
The questions that decide how your growth is received.
How you are received
The distance between how you mean to come across and how people in another market experience you, and how a leadership team finds that out honestly.
A culture you can be proud of
Which parts of how you work must travel unchanged, which should adapt, and how to keep the culture recognizable in places that will never run it exactly as Utah does.
The second founding
New owners, new capital, succession and acquisitions all reopen the questions the company answered implicitly at the start.
Alignment across distance
One ambition, understood the same way in four countries, with decisions that make sense to the people who have to carry them out.
Tension and difficult conversations
Surfacing disagreement across cultures before it hardens, and holding a hard conversation with a partner or a regional team without losing the relationship.
Getting the best from a global team
Realigning people after a hard period, rebuilding shared ambition, and making sure the best thinking reaches you from every market you operate in.
Where it leads
A place in the Systemic Growth Studio, 2027.
Catalyst members get first access to the Utah Systemic Growth Studio: a peer cohort taking their growth questions through a structured six-month journey, face to face and online.
- A shared journey through each member's own growth issues, session by session.
- Xenergie's systemic method applied to the group's named constraints.
- Connection to an international ecosystem of multinational companies, industry experts and trade bodies, including candid accounts of how companies like yours are received in those markets.
- Progress tracked against the constraints the group names, rather than left to memory.
Joining the Catalyst Group carries no obligation to continue. It is the place to find out whether the Studio is worth your year.
Who it is for
Leaders of Utah-headquartered companies
- CEOs, COOs, chief people officers and senior leaders accountable for growth.
- Companies of roughly one hundred to two thousand people, with a proven model.
- Expansion under way or under serious consideration, in any sector.
- A willingness to speak candidly and to act on what the group surfaces.
Request an invitation
Tell us where your global team feels least aligned.
T.H. Ong, who leads Xenergie's work in Utah, reviews every request personally and will come back to you within a few days. Places are limited so that the group stays small enough for real conversation.
We'll be in Salt Lake City during the week of 12th October, and you are invited to join us for an individual consultation meeting during the week. The first Catalyst session will then run, also in Salt Lake City, in November 2026.