We serve, empower and support great organizations and leaders.
We work with purpose-driven company leaders who aspire to craft an effective and resilient organization. Our team of experienced, specialized talent is uniquely capable of building growth cultures sustained by a business management system. We help leaders inspire and develop an organizational learning culture—providing ways of working that remove the barrier to growth at an extraordinary rate and create a culture in which all people are valued and engaged.
For merger and acquisition buyers and sellers, we support organization design, culture shifts, people development, operations streamlining, and process improvements. We work well as an M&A transition team partner with focus on buyer and seller integration.
Our clients learn to develop and deliver solutions and products rapidly, optimally, and safely. They adapt to and prosper amid unknown future scenarios because everybody improves the organization every day and everywhere—frontline to C-suite. As a result, they achieve sustainable innovation that outperforms peers—unlocking tremendous value for customers, employees, shareholders, and society.
M&A clients experience balance sheet and cash flow improvement through lean and effective people and operations. With increased focus on effective integration, investors can be more confident in achieving expected returns.
Build a learning organization with highly specialized talent to lead the way. We have the right combination of skills and experience to turn your organizational obstacles into business advantages.
Your business and its people make up a total system. Commonly, the main lever used in building higher performing organizations is to make each person better. That’s important, but the often-overlooked lever is working on the management system. We understand how to drive meaningful transformation by integrating Purpose, Process, and People into a seamless leadership system, unlocking the potential for exceptional growth.
Transform potential into Ultimate Performance
Better energy organizations and better impact for all stakeholders.
Help purpose-driven leaders build organizations that achieve substantial and lasting performance improvement.
Help business leaders execute strategy and address their most pressing challenges by releasing the creativity of their people.
1Train and coach “to do” and achieve results, versus train “to train.” We work at all levels of the organization.
2Address both the technical systems for efficient and agile work design—and the social systems for the behaviors and mindset that increase people engagement.
3Build a cadre of enabled, committed, skilled leaders and coaches to drive the required work with purpose, passion, and empathy.
4Develop leaders that inspire teams, live and lead with greater impact and joy.
5Work hand-in-hand to transfer knowledge, advance thinking, and propel organization capabilities.
6UP regularly engages with the thought leadership of the most influential academic organizations and associations that study high-performing businesses. Such connections include MIT, Harvard University, University of Michigan, Lean Enterprise Institute, Shingo Institute, and the Society for Organizational Learning. We’ve worked alongside inventors who guided high-performing organizations, including Toyota and Danaher—serving as practitioners of their renowned work and learning and applying it in energy companies.
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We connect to understand your organization’s challenges and opportunities, and to discuss approach options to achieve desired outcomes.
We agree on resources and focus areas for your organization’s UP transformation. Together, we make it happen.
