How ready are you for GROWTH?
You are growing fast. But internally, you are still playing catch-up. People's roles change too quickly. The culture is getting away from your. It's like you need an internal scaffolding, before it all comes crumbling down.
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You are a grown and mature company.
But change comes for you. And sometimes you don't see it coming. Ignoring it can cost you: weak performance, broken teams, cynicism about the future. Will this go away on its own?
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Let's talk. We love these challenges.
Upversity helps start-ups and scale-ups get internally ready for rapid growth, and mature companies manage change better.
We specialise in fixing broken cultures, or steering the budding ones in the right direction. We create that internal scaffloding of processes, routines and org design that holds the culture up.
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We can help you find answers - and before that, ask the right questions.
What can we do together?
LEADERSHIP
Does your leadership work as an effective, cohesive team?
ORG MATURITY
Build internal processes and structures to support business goals
CULTURE & VALUES
Is your team or company the place where people want to work?
We usually work with:
EXECUTIVES
HR LEADERS
SCALE-UPS
The management team who shapes organisational values and culture
In our experience, "soft" issues impact financial performance, and it is best to face them directly and explicitly. We can bring clarity to some of the more bewildering challenges: finding team cohesion, helping your effectiveness in making decisions, and shaping your company values and culture.
Leaders responsible for development and well-being of their colleagues
The benefits of user-centric design apply not just to your company's clients, but also to its employees. We can help you design, test and execute programs in employee experience, well-being, or development.
A start-up on the verge of rapid growth
We can guide you through getting the right teams, strategies and processes in place to weather the turbulence of massive growth. Understanding the key functions, making sure not only that they are filled with right people but also that those people can work together can prevent devastating conflicts in this period of fragility.
OUR WORK IS
VALUES-BASED
Values matter, yours and ours. We are guided by integrity and fairness.
EVIDENCE-BASED
Cutting-edge but validated approaches from psychology, organisational science, and character development.
USER-CENTRIC
Everything we design starts with the human(s) in the middle. Design thinking guides us.
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY
We combine 30+ years in business, non-profit and academia, and we integrate these experiences in our work.
Upversity was founded by
EVA VAVRAKOVA
Co-founder
Eva Vavráková has over 15 years of experience in organization and leadership development, product and service design, and change management and strategy advisory, recently at HB Reavis. She obtained her PhD in Work and Organizational Psychology, researching the intersection of organizational culture and leadership. She also studied Organization studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Additionally, she is a licensed therapist, a public speaker wellbeing-related topics,
and a co-author of a best-selling parenting book
on child psychology.
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TAMARA SAPAK BOBAKOVA
Co-founder
Tamara Sapák Bobáková's mission is to improve workplace cultures and align them with business strategy. She has over six years of experience as a strategy consultant, including her time with Simon-Kucher & Partners in Luxembourg and Tokyo. Later, she built an academic department at LEAF Academy developing character values, self-awareness, and leadership. For her MA in character education, she researched organisational values and methods to measure them in the workplace. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and master's degrees from Sciences-Po Paris and the London School of Economics.
