We Prototype Change®
Prototyping Change is what we do. A Change Muscle is what you keep.
What makes Change stick?
The organizations that get the most from Change all do one thing: they make it real before they scale it. Rather than hand people a finished plan, they build a small, real version with them, test it, and let what they learn shape what comes next. That’s the difference between Change that sticks and Change that stalls — and it’s exactly how we work.
What we do: We Prototype Change
Most Change is designed on paper and rolled out to the people expected to live it. We do the opposite. We build the smallest real version of a Change and test it — for real — with the people, and the customers, who will live it. Then we let what we learn reshape the plan before it scales.
And not just a product or a process: the way of working itself. Because it’s tested small and built with people, prototyping cuts the risk of a failed rollout and earns real ownership in the same move.
What you build: a Change Muscle
A good engagement shouldn’t just hand you a solution. It should leave you better at changing. Done as a routine rather than a one-off, prototyping builds a Change Muscle: your organization’s standing ability to keep changing on its own.
Spot the real problem. Test assumptions instead of defending them. Bring the right people in early. Adapt before you scale — and keep doing it without depending on outside help. No one can predict exactly what they’ll need to become next. A Change Muscle is how you find out: not by predicting the future, but by prototyping your way into it.
Most organizations don’t lack strategy. They struggle to make it real before they scale it.
70%
The problem is real, and persistent.
Around 70% of transformations still underdeliver—a rate that has remained largely unchanged for two decades.
(Bain 2024)
34% → 58%
(Gartner 2023; McKinsey 2026; McKinsey 2022)
$1 : $3 : $5
AI leaders invest beyond the technology.
For every $1 invested in technology, leading AI transformations invest $3 in redesigning work and $5 in building people’s skills.
(BCG 2024)
Our Work
Years of experience solving real problems for organizations around the globe. Here are a few of our stories:
Our Services
We find the right mix of "Doing" and "Teaching" to help your organization build it's "Change Muscle" through a practice of prototyping.
Our Team
We’re ChangeUp|GLOBAL
Julia Cichowski
“If serious, deployable service design is required, you want Julia on your team.”
Kam Chana: Head of Financial Experiences Lab, RCA
Martin Schmidt-Sarno
"Martin is excellent at connecting business and technology, people and purpose, customer and company."
Claude Hellers: CEO, Fundbridge
Chris Whitlock
"Chris is brilliant at helping companies foster big thinking."
Laura Fish:
Founder, CEO/CVO The Vision Studio Inc.
Contact Us today and make an appointment to talk about how we can customize an engagement for your company.