Meet Jessica Phillips, Founder of PowerUp Global. Jessica began her journey with PowerUp fuelled by a bold vision: to transform how organisations, teams, and individuals approach performance in an era shaped by rapid change and AI disruption. Since then, she’s delivered powerful results — from launching a live pilot with Heineken to forging strategic alliances with leading Microsoft partners across EMEA. Looking ahead, Jessica is focused on bringing PowerUp’s next evolution to life: a dynamic employee app and AI-powered performance agents designed to unlock measurable, sustainable impact at scale.
In this Founder Story episode, Jessica shares how she’s rethinking workplace performance at its core, moving beyond surface-level solutions to address the real drivers of productivity, engagement, and wellbeing. Combining elite performance psychology with HR, health, and business insight, PowerUp's SaaS platform helps organisations identify and close the hidden gaps that cost trillions in lost potential every year.
With AI and data-led personalisation at its heart, the platform equips individuals and teams with actionable goals, continuous feedback, and meaningful performance recognition — supporting not just higher productivity, but healthier, more sustainable ways of working. By proactively building resilience, motivation, and a sense of progress, PowerUp helps people perform at their best without tipping into overload or burnout. The result? A new standard for workplace cultures that empower people to thrive in both their professional and personal lives.
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