About Catalyst Insights Group

Our list of certifications and licenses to facilitate the application of a range of tools in our practice: 

• Strategic Sensemaking & Change Narratives
  Using SWOT and Porter’s Five Forces to create shared clarity about external pressures, strategic choices, and why change is necessary—so leaders and managers can tell a coherent story. 
• Organizational Change & Transformation
  Designing and leading enterprise change using multiple management models, including Burke–Litwin to align strategy, structure, leadership, and culture.
• Change Adoption & Execution
  Applying Prosci® and PDCA to drive adoption, accelerate execution, and sustain results beyond launch.
• Accelerating Middle Manager Talent Assessment & Development
  Identifying the future capabilities in critical roles (using Profiler Manager) and assessing high potential talent (Talentx7; Korn Ferry Assess; Strengths Finder; Leadership Circle Profile 360; CCL 360 Suite, Multipliers, DDI Leadership Systems).
• Middle Manager Change Leadership
  Equipping middle managers to translate strategy into action, manage resistance, and lead change where work actually happens (MM-CAM™).
• Culture, Engagement & Organizational Health
  Strengthening trust, clarity, and resilience to reduce change fatigue and protect performance through disruption (we don’t chase generic “best employer” benchmarks. We measure and track progress against your strategy and the performance outcomes that matter).

• Change Execution & Adoption - Designing and leading change strategies that align the organization, prepare leaders, and drive real adoption—using Burke–Litwin, ProSci®, and the Middle Manager–Centered Change Management Model.
• Organizational Design - Translating strategy into clear operating models, decision rights, and ways of working that leaders and teams can actually execute.
• Middle Manager Change Leadership & Capability Development - Assessing and developing middle managers to lead change with clarity, credibility, and confidence—where transformation most often succeeds or fails.
• Strategy Sensemaking & Leadership Narratives - Helping leaders create a shared, credible story about why change is happening and what it means, so middle managers can lead it with confidence. Using SWOT and Porter’s Five Forces to clarify strategic pressures, tradeoffs, and competitive realities—and translate them into clear, actionable narratives.
• HR Process Optimization & Adoption — Redesigning and simplifying HR processes (e.g., performance, learning, and employee lifecycle workflows) using Lean/Continuous Improvement tools to remove friction, clarify decision rights, and align processes to future success requirements—then driving sustained adoption through manager-centered enablement, role-based guidance, and reinforcement so the new ways of working actually stick. 

Founder & Principal | Catalyst Insights Group

Malcolm Gabriel is the Founder and Principal of Catalyst Insights Group. He brings more than two decades of senior leadership experience in large, complex enterprises. He most recently served as Staff Vice President, Human Resources at Elevance Health (formerly Anthem), where he supported the Medicare and Medicaid business units and led large-scale organizational transformation, operating model redesign, and leadership initiatives in a Fortune 20 company.

Previously, he was Global Leader (Director), Culture & Inclusion at Corteva Agriscience, partnering with executive leadership to strengthen organizational health, leadership capability, and enterprise-wide culture strategy in a Fortune 200 global organization. 

Earlier in his career, Malcolm served as Director, Global Talent Management at Novelis, where he focused on leadership assessment, high-potential development, and global talent systems in a complex $15B global manufacturing company.

Prior to this, Malcolm held numerous HR and Talent / Org Developments leadership roles across diverse industries, including Post Foods, Dana Corporation, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Bell Canada, and Biovail Pharmaceuticals.

In addition to his executive experience, Malcolm brings deep academic rigor to his work. He is completing a PhD in Business Psychology, with doctoral research focused on how middle managers experience and lead transformational change. He also holds an MBA and a master’s degree in Industrial–Organizational Psychology.

Malcolm has a strong network of trusted content and delivery partners. Through these relationships, we bring clients the right expertise—along with access to a wide range of proven tools and solutions—when and where it’s needed.

Outside of his professional work, Malcolm is also a competitive pickleball player, having won multiple national tournaments in both singles and doubles—an experience that reinforces his appreciation for discipline, adaptability, and sustained performance under pressure.