{"id":4645,"date":"2026-03-25T02:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T02:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/catalyst-brands-ceo-marc-rosen-speaks-on-empowering-teams\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T02:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T02:49:10","slug":"catalyst-brands-ceo-marc-rosen-speaks-on-empowering-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/catalyst-brands-ceo-marc-rosen-speaks-on-empowering-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalyst Brands CEO Marc Rosen speaks on empowering teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>More than 150 University of Michigan students and faculty gathered in the Tauber Colloquium Monday evening to listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catalystbrands.com\/\">Catalyst Brands<\/a> CEO Marc Rosen discuss how executives lead teams through uncertainty. The event \u2014 an installment of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sanger.umich.edu\/experience\/leadership-dialogues\/\">Leadership Dialogues speaker series<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sanger.umich.edu\/\">Sanger Leadership Center<\/a> \u2014 was facilitated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetblue.com\/en\/find-flights?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=23627948362&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAD-jajqEPz7Sbi-40FJj2pdJi4opL&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwyYPOBhBxEiwAgpT8P2dtf21JkLuLsu1ADP2EGSeOOrQK8pB5u0zl5CjcdLiHfF33CFPX2xoCRzMQAvD_BwE\">JetBlue<\/a> co-founder Mike Barger, assistant clinical professor of business administration.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Austin, Sanger Leadership Center managing director, opened the talk by thanking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganfashionmediasummit.com\/\">Michigan Fashion Media Summit<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rossretailclub.com\/\">Ross Retail Club<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ross.campusgroups.com\/marketingclub\/home\/\">Michigan Marketing Club<\/a> for their partnership in hosting the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rosen began the conversation by speaking about unpredictability in the workplace,\u00a0 encouraging attendees to view uncertainty as an opportunity for growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all want to have this perfect prediction of what our life is going to look like, what our career is going to be and have all those things be laid out,\u201d Rosen said. \u201cA lot of times, those things are unpredictable and it\u2019s a lot of times these unpredictable things and these non-linear changes take you to new and different places and actually open up new growth too.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Business graduate student Danielle Maduka said she appreciated how Rosen shared his own experiences with uncertainty and the benefits of embracing those moments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we as human beings sometimes don\u2019t like that some parts of life are non-linear,\u201d Maduka said. \u201cPeople kind of always want to know what the next step is, or at least I do, so what I really liked about the talk is how he\u2019s encouraged me to embrace the non-linearity of life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rosen then told the audience about one of his previous roles leading a retail technology team at Walmart, where he used group therapy to bring high-performing individuals together into a cohesive team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey all had good individual goals, but when you put those goals on a piece of paper, you saw that they were actually competing against each other more than they were collaborating with each other,\u201d Rosen said. \u201cWhat I did then is we went to therapy. We worked together. \u2026 And we made a lot of changes. Once we got that team performing, everybody thought it was working here, all of a sudden they figured out that the potential was way up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Business graduate student Mohiika Rastogi told The Daily she felt she could apply Rosen\u2019s discussion about the value of therapy when managing teams to her own career.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI loved Marc\u2019s candor,\u201d Rastogi said. \u201cThe fact that he, being in a position that he is in, and vouching for therapy was something very refreshing. You don\u2019t really see a lot of CEOs of multibillion dollar companies coming out every day and talking about the importance of therapy. Even though I will not be in a place to influence the culture of an entire organization, I\u2019m going to try and have that kind of a setting for my team for when I become manager.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rosen also emphasized the importance of prioritizing the team\u2019s needs over individuals\u2019 to ensure the best results.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou got to put the team first,\u201d Rosen said. \u201cUnless we actually deal with the team and how the team is working, and put in place that trust and those relationships and that accountability of people working together, the team is never going to perform.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barger said collaboration could be connected to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sanger.umich.edu\/our-model\/\">Michigan Model of Leadership<\/a> and the skills students are encouraged to develop as taught by the University.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s really how we try to think about the curriculum here across the University of Michigan,\u201d Barger said. \u201cIt\u2019s not so much giving you checklists of things to go do \u2026 but more giving you a tool set to deal with whatever you happen to run into.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-3    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Rosen said he uses his \u201cinsights model,\u201d a model he said is similar to the MMoL, with his teams to understand both their own and team members\u2019 working styles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(The Insights Model) has some things that are sort of analogous to the way that the Michigan Model works,\u201d Rosen said. \u201cWhat we really do is (help) everybody to understand \u2026 their own personal style and what their preferred model is, but also what their stress model is and what that looks like. \u2026 When I know what your stress behavior is, then I understand why you\u2019re reacting the way that you are and I know how I can react to that to work with you better.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maduka said she attended the event because she is currently reflecting on the type of leader she hopes to grow into.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs someone who\u2019s graduating with her MBA in a month and a week at this point, I\u2019ve currently been very introspective about this type of leader I want to be in the world,\u201d Maduka said. \u201cI\u2019ve been looking for a lot of leadership advice and leadership perspectives from current leaders. I wanted to learn more about Marc and how he got to where he was and what leadership insights he had for us as students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Daily Staff Reporter Grace Park can be reached at <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/news\/business\/marc-rosen-speaks-about-empowering-teams-amid-disruption-at-leadership-dialogues-speaker-series\/mailto:gracepm@umich.edu\"><em>gracepm@umich.edu<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-4    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 150 University of Michigan students and faculty gathered in the Tauber Colloquium Monday evening to listen to Catalyst Brands CEO Marc Rosen discuss how executives lead teams through uncertainty. 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