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Revenue for startups, 

impact for non-profits

Growth consulting for green tech and sustainability organizations

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About Earth Catalyst

Green tech and sustainability organizations can struggle to grow revenue and shape markets effectively because they lack systematic approaches to stakeholder engagement, competitive positioning, and market intelligence.

 

Earth Catalyst provides proven frameworks and strategies that help organizations accelerate sales cycles, build market credibility, and drive sustainable growth while navigating, and leading, complex market transformations.

 

I'm Marshall Kirkpatrick, Earth Catalyst's Principal Consultant and Founder. I’ve been a leader on teams with wins at every stage of the startup journey. I've been one of the top tech journalists in the world, a founder with global customers and an exit, a B2B exec from $100M to $400M ARR through IPO, and worked in global VC. 

 

Over the years, I've been cited in the Wall St. Journal (12X), BBC (3X), NPR (3X), PBS (3X), New York Times (2X), ABC, CBS, MSNBC, the United Nations and the American Medical Association

 

I am fundamentally mission driven and have extensive experience in both the private and nonprofit sectors.

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“Marshall Kirkpatrick is one of the best people on the planet at distilling value from unlimited information.”

– Ross Dawson, veteran futurist, host of the podcast Amplifying Cognition

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I've collaborated with Exponential View, Cultural Survival, and the UNFCCC-led Resilience Frontiers program. I've been an invited participant in Climatebase, The Futures School, and Forrester's CX program.

Our Services

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"Marshall Kirkpatrick is a brilliant researcher.”

– Vala Afshar, Chief Digital Evangelist, Salesforce

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“He was AWESOME to work with. He really knows his stuff. He dogged every detail and got answers.”

– Joanne Kissling, Sun Microsystems

Network Mapping & Intelligence

We can help you…

  • Strengthen your competitive positioning with comprehensive market landscape analysis

  • Enter new markets with a powerful understanding of key players

  • Build credible differentiation to accelerate sales & market adoption

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Sales System Optimization

We can help you...

  • Accelerate complex sales cycles through buyer enablement & competitive capture

  • Convert market intelligence into effective sales tools that strengthen competitive positioning

  • Scale revenue operations with structured SDR programs and repeatable enterprise engagement processes

"Marshall stands out among technology and information practitioners for his thoughtful, generous, and razor-sharp approach to helping teams solve problems."

– Tim Carmody, Deeplearning.ai

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“Marshall Kirkpatrick can convene a remarkable group of smart people & look deeply into the most important issues of our time.”

– Andrew Keen, author of How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age

Foresight & Strategic Planning

We can help you…

  • Turn market monitoring into actionable intel for decision-making

  • Build systematic horizon scanning capabilities to identify and capitalize on emerging opportunities

  • Develop frameworks for shaping market evolution, instead of just responding to it

“Marshall’s methodological approach to getting projects across the line does not just lead to high-quality outputs but up-levels everyone around him. He’s a true joy to work with.”

– Nicolas von Blottnitz, Headline.com

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