As a leader, you don’t always know where to find the answers to your important questions. We do.
After interviewing hundreds of senior executives, we found several universal needs for continued development: Relevant knowledge that applies immediately to the real world and corporate strategy; Deep, honest insight about where they are today, and where they can go from here; and eye-opening experiences to refresh and inspire. This feedback became the foundation for our three-pronged learning platform that combines the collective wisdom of a broad expert and advisory group, the diversity of thought of a new group of peers, and the magic of traveling to unforgettable places; all anchored in the individual through assessment, and delivered through concrete development objectives.
After spending collective decades in the leadership world - recruiting, training, engaging - our founders determined there must be a better way to fuel continual leadership development. In 2018, Ascent Leadership Networks was born. Based in both Boston, MA and New York City, Ascent works to build dynamic leadership programs for individuals and corporate teams.
All of our programs combine these six practices to generate the most rewarding, highly customized leadership experience.
DEEP-DIVE ASSESSMENT
We’ll work with your team to explore their deepest motivators, abilities, and goals.
CURATED, APPLICABLE CONTENT
Take part in learning that opens minds and contributes to your strategy.
RENOWNED FACULTY
Learn from the expert practitioners and global leaders that are shaping the world.
INSPIRING PLACES AND SITUATIONS
Unique venues complement your goals while tapping into the world outside - or online
A peer NETWORK
Gain access to the people, perspectives, and ideas to support your team’s growth.
development Planning
A robust plan, plus follow-up and coaching, ensures you stay true to you - and your goals.
Assessment:
It’s about you.
With your immense responsibility as a leader, you may well be putting the company’s needs before your own. This is a great chance to focus on you.
Methodology of Our Leadership Assessment
We believe leadership assessment is more than a test.
With your immense responsibility as a leader, you may well be putting the company’s needs before your own. This is a great chance to focus on you.
As part of our multi-faceted personal assessment process, you’ll take a deep dive into your own story: revisiting how you got here; building self-awareness; exploring your vision for the future.
You’ll gain clarity around the challenges you’re facing as a leader, your measured leadership capabilities to face them, get feedback on next steps, and renew your confidence and sense of self.
We offer Assessments as standalone services or in combination with any of our other offerings.
Ascent Assessment adds value for you and your organization.
Fit to Role: comparing any person to any leadership role - for selection, promotion, moves, or career shifts
Benchmarking: measuring more than good or bad - good, better, or best
Development: knowing how fast one can develop, and bringing behavioral specifics to development action
Training: identifying the behavioral levels of capability for different levels of the organization
Culture Alignment: moving beyond just doing the job to being part of the culture
CEO/C-Level Succession Planning: Knowing role level requirements and how fast one can develop, a new CEO or C-Level leader can evaluate their team for future successors, even years in advance
Motivation for Change: People only change when they want to; providing clarity around path and process makes it happen
Talent management: Using all the above to enable an organization to maximize their people and their performance over time
And we don’t just do it ourselves - we teach organizations to do it to our exacting and rigorous standards, with customized and powerful measurement methods.
YOUR LASTING PLAN
Retain and employ what you’ve learned with a customized Personal Development Plan.
This Strategic Development Plan (SDP) - which can also take shape as a 100-day transition plan - outlines not only your specific goals, but also displays a detailed roadmap of how you’ll achieve your goals and stay on track. With six-months of follow-up, coaching, and status checks built-in to the Plan, we guarantee you’ll embody and employ this exciting, constructive new direction in your leadership career.
“63-65% of companies identify leadership development as their #1 current and future human capital concern…”
— Joint report from The Conference Board and McKinsey & Company
“. . . Yet only 19% of organizations rate themselves as effective at developing leaders.”
— Brandon Hall Group’s State of Leadership Development
“Being a senior executive for 25 years, I believed I knew who I was and how to run my business life.
Ascent’s assessment gave me a much clearer picture of myself and helped me define the path to follow in order to become a better professional. This has amazing value.”
— Frederic Vieil, President and CEO, Hexagone
Inspiring venues that stimulate the mind and the soul
Unforgettable Places
Selected Ascent Clients
