CATLab CATLab Director's Note: Summer 2023

Welcome to the CATLab Director's Note Newsletter! I'll be sending these out periodically to update CATLab alumni, donors, and partners on what we've been up to and the achievements of our students. I can't wait to hear what you think!

In this edition, featured in the 2023 CATLab Magazine, I look forward to what CATLab needs to build a firm foundation for the future.

-Zak

CATLab hike

How do you make a program that grows beyond the founders? How do you infuse such inspiration that the core of the program thrives on its own kinetic power?

I’m nowhere near done with CATLab, but these days I find myself musing about how to make it last. Beyond me. Beyond year-to-year. How can we sustain this program?

Here are some ingredients I think are necessary: Structure. Location. Money. Leadership. Influence. Enthusiasm. Vision.

CATLab has rewritten the way we work with business systems at Westmont. We are an innovation factory, but always in danger of flickering out.

For now this is enough for me: open hand, open heart. We’ll see how God provides.

And to all of you who invest your time, talent, energy, and money in Westmont with the hope of leaving it better than we found it: We are all CATLab.