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UpwardAction Advisory
Tasha (TC) Cooper, Founder and Principal Advisor
When you work with UpwardAction, you gain direct access to TC Cooper’s strategic leadership and, when your engagement calls for it, a carefully selected network of trusted specialists.
The result is advice tailored to your organization’s needs, not a one-size-fits-all consulting model.
Whether you’re preparing for AI adoption, strengthening governance, developing leaders, or guiding organizational change, we bring together the right expertise to help you move forward with greater confidence, clarity, and accountability.
Founder & Principal Advisor
Your engagement is led by TC Cooper, who brings more than 25 years of executive experience spanning law, federal leadership, privacy, governance, executive coaching, and organizational transformation. She serves as your principal advisor, providing strategic guidance while assembling additional expertise when your engagement requires it.
Advisory Model
A platform designed around client need
Every organization faces different leadership challenges, governance priorities, and AI opportunities. That’s why UpwardAction is structured as an advisory platform rather than a traditional consulting firm. Instead of asking you to fit within a predefined service model, we bring together the right expertise for your organization, your objectives, and your stage of AI maturity.
Curated specialist network
You benefit from a trusted network of experienced specialists who can be brought into your engagement as needed. Depending on your objectives, that may include former federal executives, governance practitioners, facilitators, executive coaches, and organizational transformation experts, ensuring you have the right expertise at the right time.
Built for complex engagements
Your organization receives the flexibility of a boutique advisory firm with the depth of a broader consulting team. That means strategic guidance, customized facilitation, executive coaching, governance support, and workforce readiness can all be integrated into one coordinated engagement.
What this means for clients
- Work directly with a principal advisor throughout your engagement.
- Gain access to specialized expertise without hiring multiple firms.
- Receive a solution designed around your organization’s goals rather than a predefined consulting package.
- Scale your advisory support as your organization’s needs evolve.
Capabilities
What UpwardAction Advisory Delivers
Whether you’re building AI readiness, strengthening governance, developing leaders, or navigating organizational change, our services are designed to help you make better decisions, reduce risk, and move forward with confidence.
AI Readiness & Governance Advisory
Build the governance, accountability, and organizational readiness needed to adopt AI responsibly while reducing risk and increasing leadership confidence.
Human Intelligence Value Mapping™
Clarify where human judgment creates the greatest value so your organization can make smarter decisions about AI, workforce design, accountability, and role transformation.
Executive Education & AI Fluency
Cultivate the human judgment, AI fluency, and leadership confidence executives, boards, leaders, and professionals need to make sound decisions in an AI-enabled world.
Executive Coaching
Strengthen the leadership capacity, confidence, and decision-making that executives need to lead through complexity, organizational change, and AI transformation.
Facilitated Sessions & Retreats
Cultivate meaningful dialogue, create alignment, and move leadership teams from discussion to coordinated action. Sessions are designed to strengthen human judgment, build consensus around complex decisions, and generate practical next steps that advance your organization’s priorities.
Tabletop Exercises & Scenario Readiness
Build leadership confidence before it is tested. Our tabletop exercises immerse leaders in realistic AI and operational scenarios that strengthen human judgment, clarify governance and decision-making responsibilities, and improve your organization’s readiness to respond with confidence when the stakes are high.
Clients
Who We Support
Whether you lead a corporation, board, government agency, founder-led company, or mission-driven organization, we tailor our advisory approach to your goals, governance needs, and stage of AI transformation.
Why Clients Choose UpwardAction
AI doesn’t replace leadership. It raises the standard for it. Organizations choose UpwardAction because we strengthen the human judgment, governance, and leadership confidence needed to navigate complexity with clarity, accountability, and trust.
Let's Discuss Your AI Readiness
Whether you’re preparing your organization for AI adoption, strengthening governance, developing executive leaders, or navigating complex organizational change, we’ll design an engagement that reflects your priorities, your people, and the decisions that matter most.