We are UpLift Federal.
We help you succeed with purpose.
We’re a mission-driven company with a people-first approach to solving complex problems in a fast-moving, data-driven world.
With a primary focus on partnering with leading government agencies, we bring the right mix of experience, agility and innovation to serve people and communities effectively.
WHO WE ARE
A small business that believes in better business.
We are building a sustainable future for our communities, employees, and the environment.
Delivering high-quality and high-impact support and products to our clients is our top priority.
Having a measurable positive impact on people’s lives is our purpose, the reason we go to work.
We bring small business and federal consulting experience in emergency management, homeland security, defense, and public health. We are engineers. We are data scientists. We are managers, strategists and communicators. We are passionate and we will help you succeed with purpose.
Meet our co-founders.
Kira Brooks
Kira is passionate about building teams and organizations that have a positive impact on government and society. She is an engineer, a strategist, a program manager, and a communicator who believes in harnessing the power of business for good.
Philippe Lopez
With a dual background in engineering and finance, Philippe strongly believes in agility, innovation and data-driven decision-making to solve the most complex mission and business challenges faced by our clients and community.
Get in business with a better business. Let’s make an impact together.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
We share a common set of values and core beliefs that capture the essence of our culture.
Harness the power of business to make the world better
We balance corporate profit, growth, and purpose to have a positive impact on people’s lives, strengthen our communities, and make the environment healthier.
Put the mission first
We believe in and support the mission of our government clients. Our top priority is delivering high-quality and high-impact support and products. It’s our way to serve all people and communities throughout the country.
Embrace intelligent optimism
We believe that there is a solution to any problem. We see setbacks as opportunities to learn and find a different path. We are informed and rational optimists.
Empower our employees
We believe trusting each other, sharing all ideas, engaging in healthy conflict, holding each other accountable, and maintaining a performance-based culture is the foundation of a successful and empowered workplace.
Balance technical know-how with humility
We practice humility. We encourage our employees to stay on the cutting-edge and strive for excellence in their field, while staying open to and incorporating other’s opinions and approaches that are different from their own.
Think it’s a good fit?
Let’s chat.
We are a woman-owned small business (WOSB) and a benefit corporation. We intentionally chose this structure to support our mission-oriented focus and give back to our communities, employees, and the environment.
OUR EXPERTISE
Organizational Achievement
from ideas to outcomes
The managing process [is] an interactive flow of three variables: path-finding, decision making, and implementation.
Peters, T. and Waterman, R., Jr, 1982. In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies. New York: Harper & Row Publishers
When faced with the challenge of moving an organization from ideas to outcomes, we focus on all three variables.
Your organization’s external environment is ever-changing. Your internal operations and culture must constantly adapt to achieve your mission and strategic goals. Our organizational achievement focuses on implementation by aligning your operations and culture to meet your strategic goals. We customize today’s most relevant industry standards to meet your needs, including:
- The Association for Strategic Planning’s Lead-Think-Plan-Act framework.
- The Project Management Institute (PMI) Program Management standards for strategy alignment, governance, stakeholder engagement, benefits management, and life cycle management.
- PMI’s Project Management principles (stewardship, team, stakeholders, value, systems thinking, leadership, tailoring, quality, complexity, risk, adaptability and resiliency, and change) and domains (stakeholders, team, development approach and life cycle, planning, project work, delivery, measurement, and uncertainty).
Go beyond a static strategic plan. Achieve your desired outcomes while building a strategic, agile and performance-driven culture.
OUR EXPERTISE
Data Science & Decision Exploration
from data to action
Big data has unleashed what seems to be unlimited potential for new opportunities. It is critical for any successful organization to be able to effectively and in a timely fashion transform data into actionable information in support of its strategic decision-making process. Regardless of the mission of your organization, you must harness the power of data to understand the ever-changing characteristics of your environment, deliver on your current mission, and prepare for the future by optimizing your investments more efficiently.
When faced with the challenge of understanding big/small/smart data, extracting and communicating insight, and formulating robust recommendations, we develop a stepwise strategy tailored to the needs of our clients leveraging state-of-the-art analytical methods and techniques:
- Exploratory data/dimensionality analysis, clustering and visualization
- Development of prediction and forecasting models using machine learning and artificial intelligence, including regressions, k-NN, decision trees, ensemble learning, random forest, time series specific models, deep neural networks, and recommendation systems
- Assessment of the operational utility, cost and risk associated with the implementation of candidate recommendations using surrogate models and Monte Carlo Simulation
- Development of problem-specific tradeoff environments to evaluate and rank candidate recommendations or systems using a robust set of deterministic and probabilistic analyses of alternatives