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title: "Champion Development"
description: "Identify and develop internal leaders who carry change across teams with peer networks and compounding momentum."
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# Champion Development

> Identify and develop internal leaders who carry change across teams with peer networks and compounding momentum.

## Key Takeaways

- Skip the demo. Get actual answers.
- Engineering is sociotechnical. Your metrics should be too.
- Featured customer
- Our top resources on engineering leadership

# Champion Development

Build internal leaders who carry change when Uplevel's experts leave

#### Internal leader identification and development

Find and enable the people who will carry change deep into your organization

#### Champion network building

Create the internal network that gives transformation real roots and reach across teams

#### Compounding momentum 

Ensure change scales over time rather than depending on a single point of leadership

## Skip the demo.  
Get actual answers.

In 10 minutes or less, our AI deployment diagnostic will show you if there's a real problem worth solving. No pitch, just data on what's blocking the ROI on your AI investment.  

[](https://uplevelteam.com/stackup)

 ## Engineering is sociotechnical. Your metrics should be too.

Most frameworks stop at what's easy to count. The WAVE Framework captures the human and technological factors that *actually* drive delivery: how teams collaborate, how engineering effort maps to business value, how work flows through your system, and where friction creates bottlenecks.

See how the WAVE Framework underpins our approach to engineering excellence at Uplevel:

[](https://uplevelteam.com/resources/engineering-kpis-wave-1)

 ## Featured customer

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+17% Available Dev Time

### How Xactly Built an Engineering Culture of Efficiency

"If team health is good, then there’s nothing stopping us from achieving long-term productivity and efficiency. Uplevel just gives us that ability to do it right."

](https://uplevelteam.com/customers/xactly-old)

## Our top resources on engineering leadership

Digital Transformation 

#### How Systems Thinking Shapes Engineering Organizations

Discover how systems thinking in engineering can break the cycle of failed transformations.

Digital Transformation 

#### Engineering Culture Change Is Hard. Here's Why.

Engineering culture change requires technical expertise and soft skills. Here are some of the common roadblocks to success.

Leadership Voices 

#### Why Context Matters in Engineering Leadership

Learn how business context helps engineering leaders navigate market shifts and support high-performing teams.

[](https://uplevelteam.com/resources)

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