ScaleUp Partners is a strategic consulting firm that helps clients address economic issues impacted by demographic shifts through their approach called Inclusive Competitiveness. It found that minority-owned business growth outpaced others from 2007-2012, yet productivity is low with little job growth. Inclusive Competitiveness bridges economic inclusion and regional competitiveness strategies by empowering underrepresented groups to compete in today's innovation economy through improving business productivity and regional talent pipelines.

1. INCLUSION • COMPETITIVENESS • INNOVATION

2. Who will create the jobs of tomorrow?
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Black Hispanic Asian White
2007
2012
< 1 < 1 2.5 2.9 3.5 4.3
71
68
Year 2007 1.9 2.2 1.5 22.5
Year 2012 2.6 3.3 1.9 21.5
Total Number of Businesses (Millions) • Latest Census Release Dec 2015 (2012 data) Scaleuppartners.com
GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH DECLINE
Highest ENTREPRENEURIAL GROWTH (startups) is among least productive
(revenue) sectors. This presents a huge opportunity for inclusive growth.
Business productivity
(revenue) as a
percent of GDP
% GDP

3. Who will create the jobs of tomorrow?
BUSINESS OWNERSHIP
JOBS PRODUCED
BLACK HISPANIC ASIAN WHITE
2007 Total Businesses 1.9M 2.2M 1.5M 22.5M
Businesses with
paid employees*
94K 249K 400K 4.4M
2012 Total Businesses 2.6M 3.3M 1.9M 21.5M
Businesses with
paid employees*
105K 288K 477K 4.1M
Total Number of Businesses (Millions) • Latest Census Release Dec 2015 (2012 data)
*Rounded numbers
Source: Census Survey of Business Owners
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GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH DECLINE
Highest ENTREPRENEURIAL GROWTH from 2007 – 2012 is among
minority businesses. Yet, productivity is stunted with little job growth.
Investing in business productivity presents opportunity for inclusive growth.

4. ScaleUp Partners delivers measurable
value as a strategic ally for companies,
foundations, universities, NGOs and
governments addressing large-scale
economic issues impacted by
demographic shifts.
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What we do

5. Our expertise helps communicate across race,
culture and generational fault lines. We connect 20th century
populations to a 21st century economic paradigm.
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The language we speak

6. What is Inclusive CompetitivenessTM?
Our strategic planning process is the
solution to empowering underrepresented
populations to be more productive as
employees and employers in today’s
tech-based innovation economy.
Inclusive CompetitivenessTM bridges
the gap between two isolated islands:
• economic inclusion
• regional competitiveness strategies

7. Johnathan Holifield
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“America cannot reach her
highest economic
competitiveness goals
with so much of her
population producing so
little.
“Inclusive
Competitiveness is a
new economic strategy
and framework that
creates community
systems to empower
underrepresented
populations to compete in
a 21st century knowledge-
based, tech-driven
globally competitive
innovation economy.”
Johnathan Holifield,
Co-founder ScaleUp Partners
Architect of Inclusive Competitiveness
Author of: The Future Economy and
Inclusive Competitiveness

8. We empower our clients through
a proprietary process called
Inclusive Competitiveness™.
Using this strategic framework,
our clients can empower
underrepresented populations
(i.e. women, minorities and rural
residents) to improve their
performance, become more
productive and enhance their
quality of life. Increasing the level
of productivity improves the
region’s overall economic
competitiveness.
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Ohio Board of Regents unanimously adopted the policy report above,
prepared by ScaleUp Partners in the fall of 2014. Read report here.
The ScaleUp Method

9. Clinton Global Initiative (Chicago, IL)
ScaleUp America - Outcome of High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Working Group at Clinton Global Initiative 2013
SXSWedu (Austin, TX)
• Presented Saving America’s Black Boys at 2013 SXSWedu
• Presented Saving America’s Black Boys at 2014 SXSWedu
Portland, Oregon
• Gathering of Black Leaders at University of Portland
• Empowerment of Minority Entrepreneurs - Produced in
partnership with the SBIR/STTR annual conference
• National Scale Up Rally of Leaders - In partnership with
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber at the HQ of famed global
marketers Weiden + Kennedy
• Inclusive Competitiveness: National Economic Imperative -
Session produced at the annual State Science Technology
Institute (SSTI) Conference
Rutgers Business School; Newark, NJ
• A Gathering of Angels - In partnership with the Center for
Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development
(CUEED) at Rutgers Business School; Sponsored in part by
the Kapor Center for Social Impact
Cleveland, Ohio
Convened first US Minority Biomedical Entrepreneurship Conference
(MBEC), promoting job-creating innovation in life- and biosciences
Leading a national conversation
Washington, D.C.
• ScaleUp America Webinar - Council on Foundations
• Accelerate Local Communities - In partnership with
Microsoft, launched at White House Tech Inclusion
Summit
• HBCU Startup & Innovation Initiative - Launched at White
House Tech Inclusion Summit
Silicon Valley, CA
• HBCU Innovation Summit 2013 - Produced in partnership
with UNCF and Stanford University
• Tech Entrepreneurship as an Opportunity Builder -
Session produced in partnership with Kapor Center for
Social Impact at A Gathering of Leaders (Oakland)
Atlanta, Georgia
• Atlanta Convening of Leaders - Produced in partnership
with the Kapor Center for Social Impact
• Economic Inclusion & Competitiveness Summit -
Produced in partnership with Clark Atlanta University
Jackson, Mississippi
TECHJXN Innovation Summit & Yes We Code Hackathon -
Produced in partnership with Mississippi Center for
Education Innovation (Trimtab client) and coalition of
Innovate Mississippi, Kids Code Mississippi, Walker
Foundation, Jackson State University and the City of
Jackson, Mississippi

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ScaleUp Partners designed a strategic approach for the Mississippi Center for
Education Innovation to develop an unprecedented collaboration of stakeholders in
Jackson, Mississippi. We launched a successful TECHJXN Innovation Summit and
#YesWeCode Hackathon.
ScaleUp Partners Co-Founder Mike Green interviews Ken Coleman at the
TECHJXN Innovation Summit in Jackson, MS on June 30, 2015.
Groundbreaking inclusion
Results:
Jackson’s Innovation
Summit culminated in a
collaborative commitment
between the City of
Jackson, Jackson State
University and MSCEI to
develop a new TECHJXN
Innovation Corridor.

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Clark Atlanta
University
commissioned
ScaleUp Partners to
produce the first
summit that
introduced Inclusive
Competitiveness to
Georgia and pulled
together diverse
stakeholders from
around the region and
nation.
“Tremendous!”
“Outstanding!”
“Well-executed!”
CAU President Ron Johnson
CAU First Lady Irene Johnson

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On Aug 3, 2016 in Washington DC,
ScaleUp Partners produced the
Inclusive America Forum at the
combined conferences of the National
Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)
and National Association of Hispanic
Journalists(NAHJ).
Nearly 4,000 media professionals
attended the four-day conference.
The Inclusive America forum was a
full day of programming featuring a
roster of high-impact leaders focused
on solutions.

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ScaleUp helps clients discover
ways to connect isolated
communities of influence with
underrepresented
communities.
Committed to “community
process before community
products,” we introduce a
new narrative toward a
common understanding and
shared economic vision
among leaders, investors and
stakeholders who typically do
not engage one another
across the various channels of
isolated silos.
The 8 Communitiesof Influence
Inclusion

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ScaleUp transforms our client into a
local TrimTab Organization.
The TrimTab is a convening
authority that can galvanize the
power of local, regional and national
leaders and stakeholders across the
eight communities of influence.
Increased regional collaboration
produce competitive strategies with
measureable outcomes in
productivity and economic gains.
1. Develop and retain local talent.
2. Cultivate a highly qualified
workforce.
3. Create a sustained deal flow
from scalable enterprises
produced by local high-growth
entrepreneurs.
“A large ship goes by, and then comes the
rudder. On the edge of the rudder is a miniature
rudder called a trimtab. Moving the trimtab
builds a low pressure, which turns the rudder
that steers the gigantic ship with almost no
effort. One individual can be a trimtab, making a
major difference.”
Buckminster Fuller
Competitiveness
The power of the Trimtab is in its
multiplier effect, enabling a
small organization to have an
outsized exponential impact on
the local innovation ecosystem.

15. Innovation
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Higher education students in
STEAM-powered career paths.
Tech and scalable
startup enterprises
producing local jobs
Qualified employee
applicants in tech and
growth industries
Current CEDS plans and regional competitiveness strategies fail to
include underrepresented populations in top local economic
opportunities. ScaleUp helps clients spur innovation in three pipelines
of productivity that help achieve regional competitiveness goals:

16. Results that matter:
We help clients move the needle of regional GDP
and overall economic competitiveness through
increased:
• STEAM-powered careers in higher education
• Qualified employee applicants in tech
and growth industries
• Tech and scalable startup
enterprises producing
local jobs

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Johnathan Holifield
Co-Founder & Partner
Mike Green
Co-Founder & Partner
Dwayne Johnson
Co-Founder & Partner
Former professional athlete (NFL), civil rights leader,
attorney, community and tech-based economic
development consultant, pioneer of Inclusive
Competitiveness frameworks, systems and strategies.
Author, The Future Economy and Inclusive Competitiveness
Award-winning journalist, New York Times Leadership
Academy Fellow, 20 years media experience, digital
media strategist, mentor to minority startup founders,
former Navy engineer.
Technologist, entrepreneur, synergist and self-professed
social alchemist with over 30 years of experience leading
technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, investment,
operations and cross-discipline collaboration efforts.
Founders

18. INCLUSION • COMPETITIVENESS • INNOVATION
mike@scaleuppartners.com
www.scaleuppartners.com
541-730-2164
Mike Green
Co-Founder & Partner
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