Community
People need hope and opportunities to succeed, and organizations need proven, effective practices, trusting relationships, and the culture that supports belonging and advancement.
Systemic Transformation
Create Lasting Change
Systemic transformation happens when people, skills, and the environment around them grow together.
Character strengthens the mindset, self-leadership, accountability, resilience, and adaptability individuals need to navigate life and work.
Competence develops the practical capabilities required to communicate, collaborate, solve problems, lead, and perform effectively.
Culture creates the conditions in which people feel valued, supported, included, and able to develop and grow.
By strengthening character, developing competence, and shaping a supportive culture, UP empowers organizations and communities to help individuals thrive and create lasting change.
UP creates and strengthens the human infrastructure so people and systems can perform together.
Education
PreK-Higher Ed
Leadership, Culture, Academics
Everything we do helps drive measurable results in your key priorities and initiatives.
Accelerate academic achievement
Our schools teaches students important skills to help them succeed throughout their entire life, including in the classroom to enhance their academic growth.
Improve student behavior
Our schools increase student confidence, decrease behavior incidents at school and at home, and empower students with the leadership skills to interact successfully together.
Increase teacher satisfaction
Our schools empower teachers to lead, have a voice in decisions, and create a culture where educators want to be involved.
Cultivate family engagement
Our schools engage families as partners in student learning and leadership development.
Economic Development
Family
We extend our work into the home, helping to create a common vocabulary and the modeling of principle-centered behavior and highly effective habits.
By providing a framework for families we:
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strengthen relationships and prevent family violence
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improve family functioning
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increase educational and social emotional outcomes for children
Listen to Dr. Covey share an audio overview of 7 Habits Families.
As globalization and automation continue to challenge how we live and learn, we must provide the opportunities for all to be successful, beyond academia.
Leadership Pathways can be used alone, or as a component of a Youth and Young Adult Leadership Development Journey.
Employability Skills: the capacity to adapt, learn, collaborate, and perform through ongoing change.
Community Corrections
Making Prisons and Jails Safer
Over 10 million people are in prison worldwide, and 70% will reoffend after they are released.
Just locking people up does not teach them how to make correct decisions, nor does it repair character flaws that led to their incarceration in the first place.
Our process changes prison cultures by building a common foundation for staff and offenders. The approach allows both groups to use a common language to find mutual understanding and foster an environment conducive to behavioural change.
Studies show that recidivism drops to as low as 8% and administrative violations drop by over 76% for graduates. The bottom line is prisons and jails are safer.
Once offenders believe that they can choose their path in life, they begin to make changes, before they are released, that leads to a successful parole and reintegration into society.
Character and competence cannot compensate for an unhealthy culture. Similarly, a positive culture cannot, by itself, replace the capabilities people need to succeed. The three elements must be developed together.
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Character supports how people show up: purpose, accountability, resilience, confidence, adaptability, and integrity.
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Competence supports what people can do: communication, collaboration, problem-solving, leadership, and capabilities.
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Culture supports the environment in which people live, learn and work: belonging, psychological safety, inclusion, mentorship, feedback, and opportunities for growth.
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