You are growing the business.
Is your organisation keeping up?
We help CEOs, founders and leadership teams build organisations that are ready for growth. ​ We build the internal scaffolding of mindsets, roles, and org design that holds the culture up, for sustainable scaling.
​The problem we solve
You set out to build a company, but find yourself having to manage internal friction. Somewhere between hiring fast, pivoting, and trying to hold it all together, something slipped.
Maybe the organisation looks fine from the outside — but you are starting to suspect the culture is quietly costing you: Turnover surprises you. Nobody takes responsibility. People who are technically capable but suddenly fail at managing a team.
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"Soft" problems? They have hard business consequences. And they don't fix themselves.
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Let's talk. We love these challenges.
How we help organisations perform
ORG & CULTURE
LEADERS DEVELOPMENT
WORKPLACE
When the way people work together isn't working
When your managers need to lead differently
When your people don't want to work from the office, or when you plan an office move
We help you understand what's driving the problem, define how you want to operate, and put the structures in place to make it stick. Strategic HR, values, career paths, feedback systems, psychological safety — built with your people, not imposed on them.
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A tailored developmental program - a combination of workshops, peer coaching, and one-on-one coaching. We are not your recurring provider of lectures - we will implement a sustainable program that you can run internally as new managers come up.
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Strategic workplace consulting that trats your physical space as performance enabler. Planning an office move or real estate investment? We translate psychology insights into spatial decisions & adaptation programmes that make the investment actually worth it.
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OUR WORK IS
VALUES-BASED
Values matter, yours and ours. We are guided by integrity and fairness.
EVIDENCE-BASED
Cutting-edge but validated approaches from psychology, organisational science, and character development.
USER-CENTRIC
Everything we design starts with the human(s) in the middle. Co-design works better than imposition.
BUSINESS- MINDED
We care about people. We also we know that organisations have business goals. These two things reinforce each other.
Upversity was founded by
EVA VAVRAKOVA
Co-founder
Eva Vavráková has over 15 years of experience in organization and leadership development, product and service design, and change management and strategy advisory, recently at HB Reavis. She obtained her PhD in Work and Organizational Psychology, researching the intersection of organizational culture and leadership. She also studied Organization studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Additionally, she is a licensed therapist, a public speaker wellbeing-related topics,
and a co-author of a best-selling parenting book
on child psychology.
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TAMARA SAPAK BOBAKOVA
Co-founder
Tamara Sapák Bobáková's mission is to improve workplace cultures and align them with business strategy. She has over six years of experience as a strategy consultant, including her time with Simon-Kucher & Partners in Luxembourg and Tokyo. Later, she built an academic department at LEAF Academy developing character values, self-awareness, and leadership. For her MA in character education, she researched organisational values and methods to measure them in the workplace. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and master's degrees from Sciences-Po Paris and the London School of Economics.
