Finally,
Leadership Development
That Sticks

Leadership development is only impactful if it results in real behavioral change.

That’s why we built Upwardley:
a technology + content solution that helps employees turn what they learn into lasting habits.

Finally, Leadership Development That Sticks

Leadership development is only impactful if it results in real behavioral change.

That’s why we built Upwardley: a technology + content solution that helps employees turn what they learn into lasting habits.

Finally, Leadership Development That Sticks

Leadership development is only impactful if it results in real behavioral change.

That’s why we built Upwardley: a technology + content solution that helps employees turn what they learn into lasting habits.

We Create Leaders
Others Want To Follow

You can’t binge-watch your way to becoming a better leader. We all know that. Yet most online leadership training solutions fail to move beyond knowledge transfer.

 

Upwardley’s unique technology + content solution breaks that mold by putting a habit-building engine at the heart of its platform to give your employees the individual support and encouragement to turn what they learn into lasting habits. 

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The Upwardley Difference

Upwardley combines on-demand classes with 1:1 remote coaching and live community calls to deepen the learning:
A powerful, fully remote, immersive leadership training solution that will transform your people into the leaders your company needs.

Personalized

We help people evaluate which leadership capabilities they need to work on to create a personalized learning path. They own their journey. And we provide individual guidance and support along the way.

On-Demand

Your people can now fit their leadership development into their lives wherever and whenever, on their desktop, mobile phone, or tablet. We know it's their time and their choice.

Habit-Building

We don’t believe in one and done. We like habits that stick. That’s why we developed our proprietary habit-building engine. Now, your people will receive individual support and encouragement to turn what they learn into lasting habits. We enable real transformation.

Measurable

Know that your investment is working. Our dashboards allow you to track the effectiveness of how your people are developing their leadership skills. Measure the change for individuals, functions, and your whole organization.

Original Content Inspires & Enables Immediate Action

Upwardley’s content is developed by former and existing corporate leaders. Because we believe that only those who have been leaders themselves can be credible teachers of leadership development.

 

Upwardley’s approach doesn’t waste time with theoretical concepts that don’t help managers and leaders handle the very real issues they face every day. Instead, we provide actionable behaviors and solutions that your people can implement immediately.

LEARN MORE

We Create Leaders Others Want To Follow

You can’t binge-watch your way to becoming a better leader. We all know that. Yet most online leadership training solutions fail to move beyond knowledge transfer.

 

Upwardley’s unique technology + content solution breaks that mold by putting a habit-building engine at the heart of its platform to give your employees the individual support and encouragement to turn what they learn into lasting habits. 

LEARN MORE

The Upwardley Difference

Upwardley combines on-demand classes with 1:1 remote coaching and live community calls to deepen the learning:
A powerful, fully remote, immersive leadership training solution that will transform your people into the leaders your company needs.

Personalized

We help people evaluate which leadership capabilities they need to work on to create a personalized learning path. They own their journey. And we provide individual guidance and support along the way.

On-Demand

Your people can now fit their leadership development into their lives wherever and whenever, on their desktop, mobile phone, or tablet. We know it's their time and their choice.

Habit-Building

We don’t believe in one and done. We like habits that stick. That’s why we developed our proprietary habit-building engine. Now, your people will receive individual support and encouragement to turn what they learn into lasting habits. We enable real transformation.

Measurable

Know that your investment is working. Our dashboards allow you to track the effectiveness of how your people are developing their leadership skills. Measure the change for individuals, functions, and your whole organization.

Original Content Inspires & Enables Immediate Action

Upwardley’s content is developed by former and existing corporate leaders. Because we believe that only those who have been leaders themselves can be credible teachers of leadership development.

 

Upwardley’s approach doesn’t waste time with theoretical concepts that don’t help managers and leaders handle the very real issues they face every day. Instead, we provide actionable behaviors and solutions that your people can implement immediately.

LEARN MORE

We Create Leaders Others Want To Follow

You can’t binge-watch your way to becoming a better leader. We all know that. Yet most online leadership training solutions fail to move beyond knowledge transfer.

 

Upwardley’s unique technology + content solution breaks that mold by putting a habit-building engine at the heart of its platform to give your employees the individual support and encouragement to turn what they learn into lasting habits. 

LEARN MORE

The Upwardley Difference

Upwardley combines on-demand classes with 1:1 remote coaching and live community calls to deepen the learning:
A powerful, fully remote, immersive leadership training solution that will transform your people into the leaders your company needs.

Personalized

We help people evaluate which leadership capabilities they need to work on to create a personalized learning path. They own their journey. And we provide individual guidance and support along the way.

On-Demand

Your people can now fit their leadership development into their lives wherever and whenever, on their desktop, mobile phone, or tablet. We know it's their time and their choice.

Habit-Building

We don’t believe in one and done. We like habits that stick. That’s why we developed our proprietary habit-building engine. Now, your people will receive individual support and encouragement to turn what they learn into lasting habits. We enable real transformation.

Measurable

Know that your investment is working. Our dashboards allow you to track the effectiveness of how your people are developing their leadership skills. Measure the change for individuals, functions, and your whole organization.

Original Content Inspires & Enables Immediate Action

Upwardley’s content is developed by former and existing corporate leaders. Because we believe that only those who have been leaders themselves can be credible teachers of leadership development.

 

Upwardley’s approach doesn’t waste time with theoretical concepts that don’t help managers and leaders handle the very real issues they face every day. Instead, we provide actionable behaviors and solutions that your people can implement immediately.

LEARN MORE

Who We Are, How We Roll

Good friends. Highly caffeinated. Passionate. Determined. Gritty.

Founder & CEO

Brenda van Camp
Co-founder & CTO

Fabien Chazot
Co-founder & COO

Gina Larkin
Co-founder & CFO

Joshua Kim

Founder & CEO

Brenda van Camp

Brenda is the Founder and CEO of Upwardley. She drives the company’s vision, strategy, and growth, with specific responsibility for Product, Marketing & Sales, Customer Success, and Investor Relations. Brenda is also the author of the book “The Leadership Workout” and prior to founding Upwardley, she was the CMO of Blurb.com and the SVP, International Head of Marketing for the international auction house Christie’s.

Brenda attended Royal Ballet School in the Netherlands and can at times still be found striking a pose or turning a pirouette here and there.

Co-founder & CTO

Fabien Chazot

Fabien is Upwardley’s CTO, and that doesn’t mean he just sits in an office and thinks deep thoughts about our future. Instead, Fabien is actually building our product. Before co-founding Upwardley, Fabien was the CTO of Change.org, the petition based, social change platform, with over 350M users across 190+ countries. Prior to that, he held various engineering leadership roles, managing large teams at major tech companies, including Credit Karma and Match.com.

And as if startup life isn’t thrill-seeking enough, Fabien regularly tops up his weekly dose of adrenaline with some serious kiteboarding off the coast of Northern California.

Co-founder & COO

Gina Larkin

As our COO, Gina ensures that Upwardley runs as smooth and fast as it can. She oversees Business Development, Partnerships, Branding and Recruiting. Given that Gina is a renowned executive coach to the c-suite, she also leads our coaching services. Before Upwardley, Gina was VP, Global Solutions and Innovation Marketing at Visa and on the initial launch team for Visa Checkout, Visa’s first digital payments solution.

Gina is our real-life “California girl” who is happiest when on her surfboard. Most recently she surfed her longest right at Scorpion Bay and often visits her favorite points breaks off the coast of El Salvador.

Co-founder & CFO

Joshua Kim

As Upwardley’s CFO, Joshua oversees the planning, reporting, accounting, tax, treasury, financial systems for the company. In addition, he also oversees Legal and HR. Before co-founding Upwardley, Joshua headed up the Finance function at CollegeTrack. Prior to that he held various financial executive roles in both technology-based, retail and education companies, including Blurb, Rafter, IAC, and Macy’s.

Josh is a closet petrol head and recently fulfilled a bucket list item by conquering, in his Jeep, a 138 miles off-road trail through the Mojave desert. To say that he was a little dusty after that, would be an understatement.

How It All Began

Every idea starts with a problem. Our problem was simple: Leadership development was boring and ineffective.

In our thirties, we got sent away to leadership training. We were excited to fly 3,000 miles to spend the week learning to be better leaders. So, there we were. And it was, well, unhelpful (and that’s putting it nicely).

On Monday we returned to work – unchanged. And the next training? Same thing.

We started to think how one day we might do it different. What if we could completely reinvent leadership development, so that it would actually help people become better leaders? We wanted a new way.

And that’s why we started Upwardley.

Who We Are, How We Roll

Good friends. Highly caffeinated. Passionate. Determined. Gritty.

Co-founder & CTO

Fabien Chazot
Co-founder & COO

Gina Larkin
Co-founder & CFO

Joshua Kim
Founder & CEO

Brenda van Camp

Co-founder & CTO

Fabien Chazot

Fabien is Upwardley’s CTO, and that doesn’t mean he just sits in an office and thinks deep thoughts about our future. Instead, Fabien is actually building our product. Before co-founding Upwardley, Fabien was the CTO of Change.org, the petition based, social change platform, with over 350M users across 190+ countries. Prior to that, he held various engineering leadership roles, managing large teams at major tech companies, including Credit Karma and Match.com.

And as if startup life isn’t thrill-seeking enough, Fabien regularly tops up his weekly dose of adrenaline with some serious kiteboarding off the coast of Northern California.

Co-founder & COO

Gina Larkin

As our COO, Gina ensures that Upwardley runs as smooth and fast as it can. She oversees Business Development, Partnerships, Branding and Recruiting. Given that Gina is a renowned executive coach to the c-suite, she also leads our coaching services. Before Upwardley, Gina was VP, Global Solutions and Innovation Marketing at Visa and on the initial launch team for Visa Checkout, Visa’s first digital payments solution.

Gina is our real-life “California girl” who is happiest when on her surfboard. Most recently she surfed her longest right at Scorpion Bay and often visits her favorite points breaks off the coast of El Salvador.

Co-founder & CFO

Joshua Kim

As Upwardley’s CFO, Joshua oversees the planning, reporting, accounting, tax, treasury, financial systems for the company. In addition, he also oversees Legal and HR. Before co-founding Upwardley, Joshua headed up the Finance function at CollegeTrack. Prior to that he held various financial executive roles in both technology-based, retail and education companies, including Blurb, Rafter, IAC, and Macy’s.

Josh is a closet petrol head and recently fulfilled a bucket list item by conquering, in his Jeep, a 138 miles off-road trail through the Mojave desert. To say that he was a little dusty after that, would be an understatement.

Founder & CEO

Brenda van Camp

Brenda is the Founder and CEO of Upwardley. She drives the company’s vision, strategy, and growth, with specific responsibility for Product, Marketing & Sales, Customer Success, and Investor Relations. Brenda is also the author of the book “The Leadership Workout” and prior to founding Upwardley, she was the CMO of Blurb.com and the SVP, International Head of Marketing for the international auction house Christie’s.

Brenda attended Royal Ballet School in the Netherlands and can at times still be found striking a pose or turning a pirouette here and there.

How It All Began

Every idea starts with a problem. Our problem was simple: Leadership development was boring and ineffective.

In our thirties, we got sent away to leadership training. We were excited to fly 3,000 miles to spend the week learning to be better leaders. So, there we were. And it was, well, unhelpful (and that’s putting it nicely).

On Monday we returned to work – unchanged. And the next training? Same thing.

We started to think how one day we might do it different. What if we could completely reinvent leadership development, so that it would actually help people become better leaders? We wanted a new way.

And that’s why we started Upwardley.

Who We Are, How We Roll

Good friends. Highly caffeinated. Passionate. Determined. Gritty.

Founder & CEO

Brenda van Camp
Co-founder & CFO

Joshua Kim
Co-founder & COO

Gina Larkin
Co-founder & CTO

Fabien Chazot

Founder & CEO

Brenda van Camp

Brenda is the Founder and CEO of Upwardley. She drives the company’s vision, strategy, and growth, with specific responsibility for Product, Marketing & Sales, Customer Success, and Investor Relations. Brenda is also the author of the book “The Leadership Workout” and prior to founding Upwardley, she was the CMO of Blurb.com and the SVP, International Head of Marketing for the international auction house Christie’s.

Brenda attended Royal Ballet School in the Netherlands and can at times still be found striking a pose or turning a pirouette here and there.

Co-founder & CFO

Joshua Kim

As Upwardley’s CFO, Joshua oversees the planning, reporting, accounting, tax, treasury, financial systems for the company. In addition, he also oversees Legal and HR. Before co-founding Upwardley, Joshua headed up the Finance function at CollegeTrack. Prior to that he held various financial executive roles in both technology-based, retail and education companies, including Blurb, Rafter, IAC, and Macy’s.

Josh is a closet petrol head and recently fulfilled a bucket list item by conquering, in his Jeep, a 138 miles off-road trail through the Mojave desert. To say that he was a little dusty after that, would be an understatement.

Co-founder & COO

Gina Larkin

As our COO, Gina ensures that Upwardley runs as smooth and fast as it can. She oversees Business Development, Partnerships, Branding and Recruiting. Given that Gina is a renowned executive coach to the c-suite, she also leads our coaching services. Before Upwardley, Gina was VP, Global Solutions and Innovation Marketing at Visa and on the initial launch team for Visa Checkout, Visa’s first digital payments solution.

Gina is our real-life “California girl” who is happiest when on her surfboard. Most recently she surfed her longest right at Scorpion Bay and often visits her favorite points breaks off the coast of El Salvador.

Co-founder & CTO

Fabien Chazot

Fabien is Upwardley’s CTO, and that doesn’t mean he just sits in an office and thinks deep thoughts about our future. Instead, Fabien is actually building our product. Before co-founding Upwardley, Fabien was the CTO of Change.org, the petition based, social change platform, with over 350M users across 190+ countries. Prior to that, he held various engineering leadership roles, managing large teams at major tech companies, including Credit Karma and Match.com.

And as if startup life isn’t thrill-seeking enough, Fabien regularly tops up his weekly dose of adrenaline with some serious kiteboarding off the coast of Northern California.

How It All Began

Every idea starts with a problem. Our problem was simple: Leadership development was boring and ineffective.

In our thirties, we got sent away to leadership training. We were excited to fly 3,000 miles to spend the week learning to be better leaders. So, there we were. And it was, well, unhelpful (and that’s putting it nicely).

On Monday we returned to work – unchanged. And the next training? Same thing.

We started to think how one day we might do it different. What if we could completely reinvent leadership development, so that it would actually help people become better leaders? We wanted a new way.

And that’s why we started Upwardley.

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Upwardley. An Inspired Space To Learn

Contact us for a demo and pricing

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San Francisco

OUR EMAIL

hello@upwardley.com

OUR PHONE

+1 415 294 1599

Upwardley. An Inspired Space To Learn

Contact us for a demo and pricing

OUR OFFICE

San Francisco

OUR EMAIL

hello@upwardley.com

OUR PHONE

+1 415 294 1599

Upwardley. An Inspired Space To Learn

Contact us for a demo and pricing

OUR OFFICE

San Francisco

OUR EMAIL

hello@upwardley.com

OUR PHONE

+1 415 294 1599