# Upstream Academy: guiding accounting firms to high performance

> Explore accounting firm leadership development programs to elevate your firm's potential and achieve professional excellence\.

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## Pages
- [Home](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/): Upstream equips accounting firms with the tools, training, and community they need to grow stronger, lead with confidence, and build the firm of the future\.
- [Programs](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/programs/)
- [About Upstream](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/about/)
- [Resources](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/resources/)
- [Management Presentations](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/management-presentations/)

## Posts
- [Creating Evaluations That Work](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/creating-evaluations-that-work/): Too often, evaluations are simply a review of past work, but they can be so much more\. Learn to create collaborative evaluations that foster growth and move the firm in the right direction\. 
- [Gather Before They Leave](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/gather-before-they-leave/): Firms often underestimate the value of casual connection, but gathering with your team may be what triggers better ideas, better collaboration, and better results\. 
- [Creating a Culture of Learning](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/creating-a-culture-of-learning/): What will separate successful firms from struggling firms is not the path they choose\. It will be the clarity, conviction, and discipline with which they pursue it\.
- [There Is More Than One Way to Win](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/there-is-more-than-one-way-to-win/): What will separate successful firms from struggling firms is not the path they choose\. It will be the clarity, conviction, and discipline with which they pursue it\.
- [The Benefits of Boredom at the Firm](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/the-benefits-of-boredom-at-the-firm/): Firms that use slow season well will define what development looks like\. That might mean blocking time for CPE while staff have the bandwidth to absorb it\. It might mean asking each department to identify one process that made busy season harder than necessary\. It might mean giving managers dedicated coaching time\.

## Products
- [HeadWaters Conference 2027](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/product/hw-2027/)
- [Management Presentation: Unintended Consequences: Downstream Impacts of Change You Didn’t See Coming](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/product/mp-25-26-10/)
- [Invoice Payment](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/product/invoice-payment/)
- [CDS PM1 Developing Problem\-Solving Skills](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/product/cds-pm1-25-26/)
- [Career Development Series Manager: Maximize Others’ Careers](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/product/cds-21-22-m01/)

## Team
- [Heath Alloway](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/team/heath-alloway-2/)
- [Melissa Bittle](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/team/melissa-bittle/)
- [Jeremy Clopton](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/team/jeremy-clopton/)
- [Georgia Cummings](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/team/georgia-cummings/)
- [Kelsey Mundt](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/team/kelsey-mundt/)

## Podcasts
- [Episode 128](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/podcasts-/episode-128/)
- [Episode 127](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/podcasts-/episode-127/)
- [Episode 126](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/podcasts-/episode-126/)
- [Episode 125](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/podcasts-/episode-125/)
- [Episode 124](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/podcasts-/episode-124/)

## Categories
- [Article](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/category/article/)
- [High\-Performance Firm Strategies](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/category/high-performance-firm-strategies/)

## Tags
- [High\-Performance Firm Strategies](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/tag/high-performance-firm-strategies/)
- [Personal Growth \& Mindset Shifts](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/tag/personal-growth-mindset-shifts/)
- [Time Management](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/tag/time-management/)
- [Professional Growth](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/tag/professional-growth/)
- [strategic planning](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/tag/strategic-planning/)

## Product categories
- [Career Development Series](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/product-category/career-development-series/)
- [Management Presentations](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/product-category/management-presentations/)
- [Webinars](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/product-category/webinars/)
- [Emerging Leaders Academy](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/product-category/emerging-leaders-academy/)
- [HeadWaters Leadership](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/product-category/headwaters-leadership/)

## Product tags
- [leadership](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/product-tag/leadership/)
- [team development](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/product-tag/team-development/)
- [one\-firm](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/product-tag/one-firm/)
- [client management](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/product-tag/client-management/)
- [unity](https://www.upstreamacademy.com/product-tag/unity/)

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