Scale with Confidence. Lead with Clarity

Tailored leadership development and talent transformation solutions for private equity and fast-growing companies.

Growth brings complexity. Whether you’re a founder-led business scaling fast or a hands-on private equity firm focused on value creation, leadership gaps can slow progress, increase risk, and stall execution.

PowerUp Leadership delivers targeted leadership development, talent transformation, fractional HR, and executive coaching programs that help organizations scale with confidence. We help you close leadership gaps, align executive teams, and develop the capacity to grow—faster, and with fewer missteps.

Our Purpose:

Create Inspiring Leaders & Workplaces

PowerUps mission: Grow 1,000,000 Inspired Leaders by 2033. Because better leaders create better workplaces - and better results. 

Who We Serve

We support ambitious organizations across Halifax, Toronto, and North America that are serious about developing their people and accelerating growth. Our clients include private equity firms and portfolio companies, founder-led businesses, government departments, municipalities, member-based associations, and nonprofits. Whether you’re navigating change, scaling fast, or strengthening your leadership bench, we bring the strategic insight and talent expertise to help your organization thrive.

For Fast Growing Private Companies:

Build the leadership bench you need to scale beyond the founder. We work with CEOs, COOs, and people leaders to develop rising managers, improve execution, and turn growth-stage chaos into clarity.

Common growing pains we solve:

  • Team outgrowing the founder’s direct oversight
  • Leadership transitions causing confusion
  • Managers struggling to lead while delivering
  • Culture slipping under the pressure of growth

For Private Equity Firms & Their Portfolio Companies:

We partner with operationally focused PE firms and their portfolio companies to de-risk execution and accelerate leadership performance—especially in the critical first 12–24 months post-close. From aligning a new CEO to resolving C-suite gaps or scaling talent quickly, we support transitions that protect and grow enterprise value.

PE leadership challenges we help solve:

  • Post-close CEO or leadership realignment
  • Execution risk during early ownership
  • Unclear leader accountabilities across the C-suite
  • Urgent need for onboarding or team alignment

Misalignment is expensive. Leadership gaps make it worse. 

When teams aren’t aligned, communication breaks down and execution slows. Instead of scaling, your leaders are stuck in the weeds.

  • Is your turnover rate too high?
  • Have you experienced low engagement ?
  • Do your leaders fail to align the team?
  • Do your people avoid difficult conversations?
  • Do your leaders take a command & control approach?
  • Do your leaders fail to delegate?

Our Leadership & Talent Solutions

Leadership Development

Turn managers into high impact leaders

Scaling quickly or navigating a leadership transition? Your growth depends on leaders who think strategically and execute with clarity. Our coaching, assessments, and team-based training equip your managers and executives to lead with confidence—closing leadership gaps, improving accountability, and accelerating team performance when it matters most.

Talent Transformation

Build an Innovative Workplace Culture

Scaling fast or managing post-acquisition change? Your people strategy can’t be an afterthought. Our talent diagnostics, roadmaps, and organizational development programs help you prioritize what moves the needle—so you can retain top talent, build internal leadership pipelines, and increase HR capacity. Whether you need to build an HR function from scratch, augment your current team, or outsource your people strategy entirely, our Fractional HR support gives you executive-level guidance without the overhead.

Transforming Your Transactional Managers into Inspiring Leaders

PowerUp Leadership's leadership solutions tap into our proprietary leadership framework to build leaders who communicate with energy, authenticity, influence, purpose, and clarity.

Leadership Framework Journey™ 

Inspired Leadership™ Proprietary Framework:  PowerUp Leadership's  Solutions focus on  six pivotal areas for building strong leaders that motivate the team.

Hear From Our Clients

A Focus on Leadership 

  • Lead with values your team trusts and respects
  • Create an inclusive culture where people thrive
  • Show up with confidence & a strong track record 
  • Prepare for your next role - and build successors behind you
  • Develop bold leaders who embrace feedback 
  • Communicate with clarity, respect, and purpose
  • Become an employer of choice in a competitive market 

Our Partners


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InspiredLeadership™ Podcast

This podcast celebrates real-life examples of Inspired leadership to create more of it in our workplaces. 

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Coaching is awesome! I found my time spent with my coach invaluable as an executive of a company which recently completed a major acquisition and was dealing with integration, transformation, leadership and organizational changes as well as fatigue. She challenged me to take a hard look at who I am, what drives me and who I want to become. If you're looking for a great coach, then I highly recommend. 


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