Initiative portfolio
Initiatives are where systems strategy turns into visible work.
LevelUp is Seattle-based and works globally. Its initiatives are named bodies of work — training leaders in AI, building applied technical pathways in AI, cyber, and digital forensics, opening emerging tech and investing to more people, helping wine producers and founders grow, and funding the system around them. Each is the same operating logic fitted to a particular set of partners, priorities, and constraints.

Nine initiatives
What is running, what is being built, and what is delivered.
Each initiative has its own market, partners, delivery format, and status. Status is stated as it stands today.
Advisory and training
AI transformation
LevelUp works with organizations to move leaders, teams, and institutions from AI curiosity to workplace capability — through AI at Work, the AI Leadership Implementation Intensive, AI Mini MBA learning, governance, workflow redesign, and internal champions.
Corporate AI leadership
AI Mini MBA
The AI Mini MBA initiative brings together the full set of practical sessions Mitch teaches for corporate and executive audiences: AI strategy, prompting, custom GPTs, workflow redesign, governance, use-case prioritization, internal champions, and implementation planning.
Executive AI instruction
Section
Live instruction inside Section's AI for Business Mini-MBA programs. Since 2024, LevelUp has delivered dozens of live sessions — approximately one-hour live lectures inside multi-week cohorts, also available on demand — reaching thousands of professionals in aggregate. Section is a client, and LevelUp has also delivered Section's standalone courses to Section's clients, including AB InBev's DTC Academy.
Professional AI instruction
Springboard
Cohort-based live instruction and standalone AI webinars for Springboard, a client — including Building and Evolving with Custom GPTs, How to Become Your Company's AI Champion, and From Curious to Capable, plus instruction connected to Springboard's Artificial Intelligence Leadership and Execution Program. Sessions regularly reach hundreds of participants.
Wine industry growth
Barrel + Verse
Classes, workshops, and advisory work for wine producers and founders, focused on growing direct-to-consumer sales. Thirty-two producers and founders have taken part so far, multiple wine vintages have been produced in Washington State, and the work has included Two Vintners, Rotie Cellars, Cairdeas Winery, Sip Magazine, Uncorked, and Taste Washington.
Applied AI pathway
AI.SPIRE
The Applied AI and ML Systems pathway, delivered in Jordan and completed in July 2026: 48 learners certified, 12 deployed capstones. Learners moved from Git, Python, and SQL pre-work into predictive modeling, NLP, RAG, knowledge graphs, APIs, Docker, and monitoring. It is the proof point for how LevelUp designs technical pathways that other markets can adapt.
Cyber and forensics curriculum
Applied Cyber and Digital Forensics
A two-track curriculum in cybersecurity and digital forensics. The cyber track covers reconnaissance, web attacks, exploitation, Active Directory attack paths, privilege escalation, and purple teaming; the forensics track covers chain of custody, operating-system artifacts, unified timelines, memory and mobile forensics, and defensible reporting. AI-assisted triage sits inside the forensics workflow. It is being prepared for delivery in Jordan with Darb.Tech.
Women in emerging tech
Rooftop Global
Women in emerging tech and investing. Founded in 2023 and based in Seattle, Rooftop runs cohort programs — product management, engineering, and data science are running now — and convenes founders with investors, including an invitation-only Founder:Funder lunch with Wells Fargo. Women from 11 countries have taken part.
Funding and oversight
Future Skills Fund
An active funding and oversight partner in Jordan. It funded the completed AI.SPIRE implementation and supports work beyond it, including the cybersecurity and digital forensics program now in development. It is one example of the kind of funding arrangement LevelUp can help design with local partners in any market.
How they connect
Initiatives are the visible edge of the wider system.
Each one draws on the same capability areas, the same curriculum, and the same partner model.
Capability area
Build talent systems
AI.SPIRE and the applied cyber and forensics work are one delivery expression of this pillar — education connected to employers, capital, and institutions.
Curriculum
The courses behind the initiatives
Every initiative is assembled from the same catalog of programs across four capability areas, which partners can also license and run themselves.
Evidence
What we have written about this work
Case notes and launch write-ups on Darb.Tech, AI.SPIRE, and the LevelUp model, including questions partners keep asking us.
Next step
Bring an initiative to your region or organization.
Employers, governments, funders, and institutions can partner on delivery, fund a cohort, or license the underlying curriculum.