Build Leaders.
Strengthen Culture.
Achieve Zero Harm.
Helping industrial companies transform leadership, elevate safety, and drive sustainable growth.
Who We Are
At UpVantage Strategies, we believe everything rises and falls on leadership.
For more than 35 years, we've helped 450+ organizations in manufacturing, construction, and industrial services develop transformational leaders who strengthen culture, improve safety, and deliver measurable results.
Our Flagship Program
The Zero Harm Safety Leadership Program is our cornerstone offering, designed to move companies beyond compliance and into true safety leadership. By equipping managers, supervisors, and executives to lead with clarity, accountability, and care, organizations reduce risk, improve trust, and create workplaces where every team member can thrive.
Broader Services to Drive Growth
Safety is only part of the story. UpVantage provides a full suite of leadership development and organizational effectiveness services, including:
M&A due diligence, insurance program reviews, and sales/marketing strategy to unlock hidden value
Insights Discovery training to improve communication and collaboration
Safety culture assessments and performance gap analysis to pinpoint opportunities
Executive coaching and peer groups to elevate leaders
Our Approach
Best Practices
Together, our team brings 35+ years of expertise from serving over 450 organizations. We leverage the best practices from each to bring you the highest level of service.
Culture First
Because culture beats strategy every day, we work with your team to continually level-up through leadership development and cultural change.
Sustainable Results
We focus on leadership development that lasts beyond a workshop. Education is great, but creating a Zero Harm environment requires trues cultural change.
First-Hand Experience
From the shop floor to boardroom strategy, we've been there. Our team is able to connect with leaders at all levels because we’ve been in their shoes.
Ready to strengthen your leaders, culture, and safety performance?
Developing leaders who can strengthen culture, improve safety, and drive results.
The UpVantage team helps manufacturing, construction, and industrial service companies solve one of their toughest challenges: developing leaders who can strengthen culture, improve safety, and drive results.
We’ve worked across industries and company sizes, from family-owned firms to industry leaders, and the pattern is always the same: companies rise and fall on leadership. That’s why we’ve built a team dedicated to equipping executives, managers, and frontline leaders to move from compliance to commitment and create a culture of Zero Harm.
Our philosophy is simple: leadership is not a title, it’s a responsibility. When leaders show up differently, their people, safety practices, and culture transform. And when culture improves, performance follows.