The Three-Phased Program
Experience the value of professional - and personal - growth.
This fulfilling program allows you to experience the power of collective wisdom, diversity of thought, and the support and inspiration of your peers . . . all in extraordinary events. You’ll walk away with a true sense of accomplishment and a plan to guide your future.
Assessment & Development Planning
Start with a deep leadership assessment to unlock insight, priorities, and potential areas for growth. The assessment also lays the foundation for your Strategic Development Plan.
Inspired Learning & SIMULATION
Join immersive, engaging programs led by top experts, bursting with cutting-edge, relevant content, and bringing best practices to life through simulations and exercises.
The Ascent Network
Connect with peers from different countries, backgrounds, cultures, and industries. From peers to expert faculty and special guests, our network sets you up for long-term success.
Current Offerings
Now Enrolling
Leadership for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
In this Fellowship, we bring together top leaders to learn how to create inclusivity, diversity and equity in a rapidly-changing world, and to maintain ongoing awareness of new needs, driving toward long-term, strategic change.
Now Enrolling
Leading Beyond COVID
Can your leaders manage the transition from a downturn to growth? Most of today’s top leaders and successors experienced a decade of steady market growth. The COVID-19 pandemic changed that, demanding different leadership capabilities.
See a Past fellowship
In this pre-COVID fellowship, we brought together founders and heads of family-run businesses to develop awareness of business context, increase collaboration, address board dynamics, and help build a lasting legacy.
Hear from Our Fellows
“Ascent’s innovative fellowship program was personally transformative. The powerful combination of world-class experts teaching leadership skills necessary for success, and a peer network diverse in background, thinking, and experiences exchanging ideas, makes this program unique in the world. That peer network has become a group of lasting friends enriching my life and on whom I still rely for advice and support.”
TAKE A LOOK INSIDE A RECENT FELLOWSHIP
See firsthand how Ascent combines collective wisdom with diversity of thought and unforgettable events.
Ascent Fellows gain new perspectives on how to lead, as they learn from world-class experts the tools, techniques, and approaches, as well as broader contextual trends and dynamics, affecting leaders today. Refuel and recharge with the right environment, people, and innovation around you.
“I proactively want to become a better leader now, rather than after making critical mistakes.”
Leadership for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Fellowship
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Leadership
Does your company best leverage the abilities of all staff? Are all employees empowered to drive business success? How do you avoid unconscious bias and hire, develop, and promote the best regardless of their origins?
Things are changing, and you know they need to change. Ascent can help you not only make today’s changes, but stay ahead of tomorrow’s by being connected to the people in your organization. Today, companies must not only be diverse, but also inclusive and provide equity in order to attract the best talent and succeed.
We will help you embrace it, stay ahead of it, and bring others with you, as you work to transform your organization into one that embodies the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) values that it needs for success.
In this Fellowship, we bring together top leaders to learn how to create inclusivity, diversity and equity in a rapidly-changing world, and to maintain ongoing awareness of new needs, while driving toward long-term, strategic change.
The program includes three modules (group sessions), as well as individual work:
Pre: Assessment and Feedback: Benchmarking current and potential leadership strengths for targeted personal development
MODULE I: Engaging with Diversity: Learning how to understand and connect to diverse perspectives and people
MODULE II: Collaborating for Inclusion: Building transformative and inclusive teams and coalitions to carry out your vision
MODULE III: Acting for Equity: Marshaling your resources and building organizational capability to manage change
Network and Follow-Up: You will be part of a network of leaders who can follow up and help each other achieve your DEI goals
For more about this program, our faculty and key learning objectives: View the Brochure
Contact us to sign up or get more information.
Fellowship
Leading Beyond COVID
Can your leaders manage the transition from a downturn to growth? Nearly all top leaders today and their successors have lived through a decade of steady market growth. But the COVID-19 pandemic changed that, demanding different leadership capabilities.
Leaders have been forced to adapt, sometimes with little experience to back them up. Ascent provides the insight of numerous top leaders who have that experience, and helps you learn how to leverage the capabilities and potential of you and your organization.
In this Fellowship, we bring together top leaders to strategize how to manage a rapidly-changing future, and how to adapt, change, and bring people along. We have three modules, administered through online group sessions and individual practice at work:
Pre: Assessment and Feedback: Benchmarking current and potential leadership strengths for targeted personal development
MODULE I: Strategic Thinking: Creating a vision you can apply to your future
MODULE II: Collaborating: Building transformative teams and coalitions to carry out your vision
MODULE III: Leading through Change: Marshaling your resources and building organizational capability to manage change
Network and Follow-Up: You will be part of a network of leaders who can follow up and help each other adapt to the emerging post-COVID world
For more about this program, our faculty and key learning objectives: View the Brochure
Contact us to sign up or get more information.
Meet Some of Our FELLOWS
The Fellowship peer group is strong, thoughtful, and passionate about their craft.
Participants in our cohorts build a powerful network of peers, with both shared and different experiences, who can provide ongoing support and mentorship.
Whether undergoing sudden organizational change, expanding your role, or navigating a major career shift, you are not alone.
The Fellowship network comprises a diverse mix of chief executives, founders, civil servants, and other senior leaders who have innate curiosity and a passion for leadership.
Click the images to view their awe-inspiring profiles.
UNFORGETTABLE PLACES…or online
Events that energize…in unforgettable places or online.
When we bring people together for in-person work, we match the location to the content to inspire and drive home key learnings. Online, we are expert at creating “spaces” and interactions for the same effect.
Here are a few of the locations we have used in the past and look forward to returning to when it is safe.
