Reducing avoidable people issues caused by different thinking styles at work
Practical support for teams navigating cognitive differences — when manager judgement breaks down and issues escalate unnecessarily.
Many teams are dealing with the same recurring issues:
Managers escalating situations that shouldn’t need HR
HR spends time mediating grey-area issues
Employees are labelled “difficult” when expectations were never clear
Our perspective:
Most people issues at work are not caused by bad intent or lack of ability.
They are caused by mismatches in how people think, communicate, and interpret expectations.
We see this pattern repeatedly. We also see how quickly things change when those differences are handled with clarity and confidence.
Who Uptimize is for
HR teams dealing with repeated manager escalations
When differences in thinking style, communication, or ways of working turn into avoidable HR cases.
Large employers building neurodiversity capability
When disability or accessibility teams need credible, scalable training.
A practical, empowering approach
Recognition that everybody is wired differently
Focus on expectations, feedback, and practical application
Proactive and preventative - rather than reactive
Trusted by teams navigating complex people issues
"Working with Uptimize has been a great experience. With this partnership we have significantly advanced how we integrate work style difference considerations throughout the talent life cycle."
Elaine Jones, HR Business Partner, Macquarie
“It was so mind-blowing in the sense of understanding how these things that seem like subtle changes and shifts in the way people communicate could have such an impact.”
Charlene Martinez, Sr. Manager, Learning & Enablement, Splunk
“The Uptimize team has been wonderful to work with, very flexible in accommodating global time zones, and working with various internal stakeholders to maximize our relationship and investment."
Heather Howell, Senior Global Culture Leader, Seagate
