Let yourself, 
your team, and 
company thrive

People & HR Consultancy, coaching 
and training for tech companies
A happy talented team, that optimally performs through-out all stages of growth, that is the goal.

To achieve this, you know basic HR won't cut it. People are your most valuable assets. What are you doing to make them thrive on a daily basis?

Spoofing alert - Warning / Waarschuwing

This company name is currently being misused for spoofing. You may have been called by a robotic voice pretending to be upward.amsterdam, asking you to add the called number to WhatsApp. Do not do this! The calls keep coming from different numbers and to numbers that are completely unknown to me. Over the past weeks, I have received information from many people who were “supposedly” called by Upward. The file with data is now with the police awaiting investigation. Unfortunately, there is nothing more I can do about it.

Deze bedrijfsnaam wordt momenteel misbruikt voor spoofing. U kunt gebeld zijn door een robotstem die zich voordoet als upward.amsterdam met de vraag het gebelde nummer toe te voegen aan whatsapp. Doe dit niet! Er wordt steeds gebeld vanuit een ander nummer en naar voor mij totaal onbekende nummers. Gedurende de afgelopen weken heb ik gegevens ontvangen van velen die "zogenaamd" gebeld zijn door Upward. Het dossier met data ligt nu bij de politie in afwachting van onderzoek. Ik kan er helaas verder niets aan doen.

Team coaching & 
People strategy
I coach and train teams within tech-companies to collaborate, communicate and perform optimally. Involving your people from the get-go, clear direction, a great atmosphere and purpose, are a few of the key ingredients to creating winning teams.

Innovation and creative work requires a unique approach. Depending on your goals, I design and facilitate trainings, one-off active work sessions or collaborate with your team over a few weeks time. A few examples of coaching topics:
  • Employee experience & enagement
  • Setting direction, purpose and goals (OKR's / KPI's)
  • Creating an open, collaborative, safe high performance culture
  • Agile & scrum 
Outsourced HR
& Hands on support
If you want talented people to join your team, and stay, I believe you need to treat them as your main assets and actively set them up for success. 

As you scale, I help you further professionalize or optimize your people processes, so that your team can thrive. By temporary managing, guiding or co-designing your People & HR operations and strategic projects. In times of growth or change, when there is a fall-out or in peak moments. 
Get up to speed fast with the essential series
READY TO SCALE CHECK
Are you ready for growth? 
I will scan your People & HR operations and processes. From there we create a Roadmap with next steps in your scaling-up journey
TEAM
PERFORMANCE
Over the course of 10 weeks we have 5 touchpoints, to work on optimizing your teams performance. For both leadership and teammembers. 
COMPANY & TEAM
CULTURE
A key driver of behaviour in the company, is your culture. Define or tweak your culture together as a team and learn how to deliberately manage culturein your work on a daily level. 
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP
Empower yourself and your people to grow in personal leadership. Develop skills like grit, resilience, influence and connectedness to gain massive advantage as a team. Consistent attention for personal development will bring your team happiness and performance to the next level.
Meet Christine
Technology brings incredible opportunities and throughout history has pushed society to change. Behind tech are always people who ultimately shape that change.  

When people thrive, they live, work and collaborate with heart. I believe heart is at the foundation of engaged teams and great products. And perhaps it even helps us to harness the power of tech for good and positively push those boundaries. Living, working and creating, not from a place of fear but with open hearts and minds.  

With nearly 20 years of business experience—in startups and tech scale-ups to corporates and foundations, and wearing hats as founder, manager, and employee—I bring a full-spectrum perspective. I studied both business and psychology. 
As a People and HR professional I am both strategic and hands-on, I love building great workplaces and navigating rapid change. My mission is to truly optimize team happiness, engagement, output and from there company results. As a certified coach counselor I work 1:1 as well as with teams of founders, managers and employees alike.   

In my spare time you'll find me running, doing (hot)yoga, enjoying all things nature like the ocean or weeding in the community food-garden, comedy, arts, hanging out with fam and friends.. I aspire to one day like yoda become!
"It was a true pleasure working with Upward. They helped us hands on with daily HR operations and to implement an agile performance management structure. In the process they identified the overall company change we were going through. Giving us the language, framework and tools to manage it deliberately, was invaluable." 

Harald, F. CEO  
"I appreciated to have Upward as a likeminded ‘firm’ team player. They are convincing, straightforward and gave me where needed just that right push to move forward in my role and personal development." 


Daan, S. Head of design
"After work-sessions with Upward, I now have a clear picture of the new strategy direction for my company, and team. It was an energizing process, making key decisions, discovering new opportunities and gaining valuable insights about my personal strengths, and how to leverage them, along the way." 

Mirko, B. Founder  
"Upward was like a third cofounder helping us to keep an overview through the right processes and to make sure that we kept our focus on the right things. It helped us to work more professionally as a company and meet our deadlines consistently." 

Andre, W. Founder
For your team to perform throughout all the different stages of growth, collaboration, being focussed on the right things and maintaining positive and healthy (team) relationships are essential. With each stage of growth at your company, there are different challenges. Find out how I can help you deal with the challenges of scaling your organisation.  
CONTACT
Do you have any questions about your People & HR strategy, optimizing performance, growing your team, develop culture? Or are you interested in starting coaching? Let's connect!

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