Why CTL Catalyst Exists
Built from experience. Created to add capacity.
CTL Catalyst grew from years of experience supporting faculty, developing teaching and learning initiatives, and working within the realities of higher education. Great ideas do not always come with enough time, staff, or capacity to bring them to life. CTL Catalyst was created to help close that gap by providing the additional expertise and project capacity institutions need to move good ideas forward.
Your goals. Our focus.
Every institution has its own people, priorities, and ways of working. CTL Catalyst starts there. Rather than offering one-size-fits-all solutions, we work alongside institutions to understand what they are trying to accomplish and create practical resources, learning experiences, and deliverables designed for the people who will actually use them.
Meet the Founder
The experience behind CTL Catalyst
Jamie J. Els, EdD
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Jamie has spent more than 15 years in higher education, including 12 years leading faculty development, teaching and learning, and academic innovation. She co-founded a university faculty development center and helped lead its evolution into a comprehensive teaching and learning center, creating more than 400 professional learning initiatives and resources that supported over 750 faculty. Her experience spans faculty and administrative roles, academic journal editing, needs assessment, program development, and the creation of practical resources for faculty and institutions.
With an EdD in Leadership in Higher Education and an MEd in Adult Education, Jamie continues to teach in higher education, bringing firsthand experience from the classroom into her work with faculty and institutions. She has taught and developed courses across in-person, online, and blended environments and contributed to peer-reviewed scholarship and professional presentations. Known for bringing structure to ideas and turning them into practical, polished resources, she created CTL Catalyst to help institutions move the projects on their wish lists from idea to reality.
