• SERVICES

    Responsible for growth initiatives?  
    Striving to be more data-driven and innovative?
    Seeking ways to elevate the success of your initiatives? 
     

    Upwardly co-innovation services give an uplifting boost. Start where you see fit: Strategies for leaders, Programs for teams, or Coaching for individual contributors. We invite you to...
     

        1. Request a complimentary strategy session

        2. Click on each service area for details

  • THE BIGGEST RISK WE FACE
    in complex data initiatives

    is neglecting to invest in peoples' capabilities to process meaning and act wisely—together.

     

    Systems make data accessible. But, that doesn't auto-magically ensure growth and success.

    High-functioning teams make data meaningful, valuable and actionable for work challenges.
     

    If most of your effort with data is focused on tech, let's invest in your Makers, Interpreters and Users. The upside is unlimited.

     

    Our mission is to help you elevate excellence, sense-making, innovation and ROI on data:

    • Smarter customer strategies
    • Better opportunity assessment
    • More innovative business models
    • More effective collaboration
    • More adaptive business processes
    • Higher functioning teams

     

    CURIOUS? Let's start a conversation.

  • BENEFITS

    Using data across an organization is, by definition, a highly social capability. That means it can always be improved and every stakeholder benefits in different ways...

     

    LEADERS  >  Extend your presence with Co-Innovation Strategies.

    Benefit: Increase the ROI of data, get teams collaborating across functions, boost engagement and inspire innovation.

     

    MANAGERS  >  Enhance your presence with Co-Innovation Programs.

    Benefit: Achieve objectives through people more effectively, elevate their capabilities and reinforce priorities. 

     

    INDIVIDUALS  >  Integrate your presence with Co-Innovation Coaching.

    Benefit: Improve how your team engages other functions and uplevel everyone's effectiveness with data.

     

    ORGANIZATION  >  Growth. Productivity. Quality. Motivation. Retention. ROI.

    Business benefits increase as people are supported in seeing with new eyes, adapting to new insights and bringing their individual and collective best. Whatever your priorities and key metrics, we'll reinforce them and help your teams share progress as it happens—you'll notice impacts through people even before we give updates.

     
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    WHY CO-INNOVATION

    "You see things not as they are, but as you are."    – Eric Butterworth 

     

    Priming Your Social Infrastructure
    It's hard to enlarge perspectives, examine beliefs, revise stories, relax resistance, form new habits, navigate volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity (VUCA) and consciously shift norms.

    It's especially hard without attuned guides helping from outside the work streams and culture. Our skillful practitioners catalyze people to create, see, share, interpret and use data better, together. Collaborative innovation: Co-Innovation. 



    Philosophy
    We respect your intelligence, talent, knowledge, agency, views, experience, motivations and aims.

    We see you as inherently powerful, fully capable of defining and solving your own problems, choosing what to prioritize and where to focus attention. 

    We know that pro-social dynamics and strengths inherent in your people can naturally elevate their functioning and performance. Our role is to help your teams trust and work with these forces of nature. 

     

     

    Science & Methods

    Our approach is to model and prompt the use of reliable tools, language and paradigms for creating understanding. People learn in many ways, and often fastest by seeing and doing.

    We use science to inform what will be most helpful for participants and our services:

       - Evidence & Socratic Inquiry

       - Neuroscience

       - Positive Psychology & Strengths

       - Epistemology & Metacognition

       - Ecosystem thinking

  • WHO WE SERVE

    Sense-Makers and Data-Wranglers

    Those who use, interpret or provide critical data are great candidates for Upwardly Co-innovation Services.

     

    Who are the Sense-Makers that your tech stack and data systems serve?

    - Leadership & Growth Officer

    - Account Management

    - Advisors & Board

    - Product & R&D

    - Ops & Finance

     

    Who wrangles and prepares critical data?

    - Data Science, BI & Analytics

    - Opportunity Analysis

    - Strategy & Planning

    - Business Process

    - Consultants

  • VALUE OF CO-INNOVATION

    Try asking these questions in your next meeting about data:

     

    IMPORTANT
    "How consequential for our success are the conclusions and decisions we make with data?" Use a 10-point scale, 'nil' to 'severe.'

     

    URGENT

    "What is the compounding risk, cost, and loss if the data are good but our sense-making isn't?" Again, use a scale of 0-10.

     

    Answers greater than five are worth pausing for reflection together:

    • How is the ROI of our data at risk from matters we can control: ourselves?
    • How good is our sense-making?
    • How do we know–what's the evidence?
    • What are downsides to our status quo?
    • What are upsides to better sense-making? Collaboration? Innovation?
    • How much opportunity is on the table?
    • How do we value greater success?

    A common cause of failures is not recognizing how circumstances have changed. Reality is always changing and the pace is accelerating. No one can keep up with it alone.

     

    UPSIDE POTENTIAL

    When teams are sense-making and co-innovating well, data minimizes failures and maximizes the pay off on our investments.

     

    Our perceptions, critical thinking, imagination and decisions improve with social processing; it helps us understand data in context and collaborate to use it for wise actions.

     

    The value of Co-Innovation is... invaluable.

  • HOW IT BEGINS

    Your Co-Innovation support begins wherever it makes the most sense: with Strategies for Leaders, Programs for Managers, or Coaching for individual contributors. A holistic approach includes all three.

     

    You and your people are the heroes of this story. They will utilize data more effectively. They will collaborate to define problems and spot opportunities better. They will draw better conclusions. They will find new ways to create value. And, they will share progress as they go.   

     

    People love Upwardly. They are hungry for these kinds of experiences and they stick with it. They also view their leaders and managers as caring more about their well being, growth and success.

    1

    WHY

    Clarify priorities, success, participants and approach.

    2

    WHO & HOW

    Invite people and co-create strategies to support them.

    3

    WHAT & WHEN

    Choose support services, touch points and timelines.

    4

    FACIL-ITERATE

    Facilitate, learn what works, adapt, seize opportunities.

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    OUR PROMISE

    Wondering what it's like to work with us?


    Count on us to model Servant Leadership and appeal to everyone’s wisdom and best reasoning.

    Expect us to “press pause” momentarily so people can better see themselves, consider others, spot opportunities in context, then jump back into action.


    We’ll do everything in our power to create social environments where people feel they can thrive by being true to themselves and each other.
     

    Anticipate that we’ll engage people’s senses, hearts, and intuition as well as their intellect. We'll create spaces that are challenging and energizing.

    Trust us to authentically share what we see and understand, and to encourage people to take some revitalizing risks for themselves and larger purposes.

    If Upwardly were a character, we might be the love child of Wonder Woman and Captain America:

    • Protector of humanity, compelling people's truths and strengths, acting with compassion and courage

    • Big-hearted underdog, sensitive by nature, strengthened by science, acting with purpose and virtue

  • TEAM

    Meet our Co-Leaders. How else would we support co-innovation?

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    Frankie Ridolfi

    Owner / CEO

     

     

    How can we live the Renaissance ideals?

     

    It's a perennial question. Ideas emerge cyclically through worthwhile quests and curious inquiry–the more open, social and interdisciplinary the better.

     

    I’m a science and nature lover, artist and designer, maker and innovation leader. My aspiration has been to integrate these vocations and serve larger purposes (social, environmental, etc).

     

    This orientation to the world is why I’m passionate about co-innovation and an upwardly way of cultivating environments where people are highly actualized.

     

    To achieve business outcomes with greater excellence and success, we must invest in people’s capabilities to process meaning and act wisely together. We must connect what's great and unique about them with how they work, together. Co-innovation.

     

    Ask me anything:

    frankie@upwardly.work

    LinkedIn

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    Amanda Hitchner

    Co-Creator

     

     

    Maker • Thinker • Guide

     

    I have always enjoyed the process - setting intentions, diving in, uncovering the wow and being totally and completely amazed at what unfolds when I resist the urge to script the outcome.

     

    Over time I have curated, refined and reinvented practices and strategies that support imagining, exploring and changing perspectives.

     

    I believe in kindness, creativity, listening and the power of reflection.

     

    There aren't always neon signs pointing out our next steps. Sometimes, there are gentle nudges we only recognize in hindsight.

     

    My hope is to help others create for themselves confidence in their inner wisdom and joy to rise to any challenge.


    Ask me anything:

    amanda@upwardly.work

    LinkedIn

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