Upwrd partners with ambitious start-ups, and high-growth scale-ups. We are well-versed in the challenges that different stages of business growth bring. So, we support leaders, managers and their teams to navigate rapid growth, change and volatility.

We coach leaders, helping them to nurture the optimum mindsets and behaviours that empower them to be the very best they can be: for themselves, their family and for their people.

We train key leadership and management knowledge and skills, all of which are rooted in high-performance, emotional intelligence and positive psychology.

We develop collaborative, cohesive and highly engaged teams that drive ambitious growth and have a great time doing so.

We’d love to help you set yourself and your team up for success while your business grows.

Everyone deserves to love their work!

For Start-ups – 5-20 employees

The challenges facing a start-up business are plentiful and can bring a lot of change, in both pace and outcome, for you and your team. We know that to be successful you need support tailored to you as the business leader, as well as support for your teams working tirelessly to help your business grow.

Through confidential, high-impact 1-2-1 Executive Leadership Coaching, we will support you to:

Craft and communicate a compelling vision and strategy
Identify and establish your unique authentic leadership style
Find balance whilst navigating being hands-on vs focussing on strategic objectives
Build an effective team
Establish an engaging culture
Balance your personal wellbeing and work:life.

Through Team Development Sessions, we will support you and your team to:

Establish a Team Charter
Identify team values and set team strategy
Understand individual working styles, ideal behaviours and preferred ways of working and communicating
Navigate conflict and stress
Maintain agility and experimentation whilst codifying core behaviours

For Scale-ups – 20-300 employees

As your business scales, you are faced with new challenges and hurdles. As a leader, your role in the business will be changing and you’ll need to navigate and balance that whilst supporting your leaders and managers to step up into bigger and broader roles.

Your leaders will need support to grow teams, and those teams will need to work cohesively and effectively and balance a growing workload.

Through 1-2-1 Executive Leadership Coaching we will support you and your senior leaders to:

Move from a ‘hands-on’ role to being a strategic thinker
Successfully scale the innovative culture and values that have driven your success so far
Retain, empower and develop key talent
Develop strategic leadership skills (such as outside-in thinking and stakeholder management)

Through Group Workshops we will support groups of leaders and managers to:

Build the confidence, skills and knowledge to manage growing teams
Develop themselves and others around them
Manage a growing team and changing team dynamic
Excel in their roles and drive the success of the business

Through Team Development Solutions, we can support your teams, departments and business units to:

Align team goals within the organisational objectives and strengthen inter-team dynamics across the organisation
Understand each other’s ways of working, communication preferences and differing skill sets, supporting the growth of a cohesive team and encouraging collaboration across the wider business
Navigate conflict and stress
Maintain agility and experimentation, whilst codifying core behaviours