An Executive Coaching & Business Consulting Firm
Business Consulting
Seize the Process of Transformation
We help you bring resolution to both internal and external challenges, then guide your business to your desired outcomes. We have developed a proven system that enables clients to learn to continuously capture future opportunities for growth and improvement.
Own Your Evolution™
FREE 30-minute session
CLEAR AND SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS
IMPROVE YOUR COMPETITIVE COMPETENCY TO ENSURE IMPACTFUL OUTCOMES.
Hard to define or communicate your brand??
Difficult to utilize and align your team's individual capabilities and collective capacity?
Is your company or organization experiencing lagging growth, failing to evolve, or battling to transition out of patterns that no longer serve it?
We help you build business and staff capability that will support your strategic vision. We achieve this by providing both enterprise development and operational optimization solutions tailored to your specific needs.
When you have a small company or organization and are trying to grow your business, the experience can be overwhelming. There are a myriad of decision points which require expertise and support that is rarely available at the skill level, price point, access level, or point in time for which you need them. Because of such challenges, the steps to success are often hard to ascertain and even more difficult to implement. Inevitably you are left frustrated by the inability to overcome and make continued sustainable progress.
HOW WE SERVE COMPANIES AND ORGANIZATIONS -
AN OVERVIEW OF OUR SERVICES
List of Services for COMPANIES* (For Profit)
ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
We work with you to enhance your company's ability to adapt and change in response to internal and external demands. We assist you in identifying opportunities to improve communication and collaboration among staff, increase team performance and cultivate a culture of entrepreneurial leadership, and ultimately achieve better company alignment. We offer the following services.
Strategic Planning
Our strategic planning process is comprehensive and is specifically designed to help our client-partners grow, prosper, and succeed. At its core, this strategic planning service guides your company in identifying your strategic pillars, setting goals, and establishing initiatives. We also provide guidance on how to identify your action steps and measures of success, while ensuring that they are realistic and data supported. Ultimately, we work with you to create a company-designed Strategic Plan.
Business Model Development
A robust business model enables your company to focus on business sustainability – thinking beyond just making ends meet, and financial planning that supports your services and programs long-term – thinking beyond just keeping the doors open. Our team will administer an operational assessment to evaluate performance, conduct market research to identify innovative business strategies, and examine current and potential revenue streams that could create a strong and diversified portfolio. Additionally, we analyze your capability and create a realistic and achievable business model. This work will set the foundation for the creation of a blueprint which will stand as the guidance for reimagining your company’s competitive business model.
Business Scaling & Expansion Strategy
Expanding your company is an exciting time but it can also be overwhelming. It's essential to have a well thought-out strategy in place before you start the expansion process. Scaling and expanding your company not only requires significant investment, but involves careful planning, execution, and adaptation. Our team will conduct market research, assess your operational efficiency, and assist you in identifying strategies around marketing, talent acquisition, and vetting partnership opportunities. Ultimately, we will help you to develop a scale and expansion plan that aligns with your financial expectations and operational competencies.
Executive Leadership Development
CorEvolution is our 33-week executive and professional coaching program. It is aligned to the 4 steps of our Own Your Evolution model and comprised of 4 learning modules. Every 3 weeks you will have a 90-minute session with your coach, totaling 11 – 90-minute sessions, equaling 16.5 hours of one-on-one coaching time. Please refer to our Executive Coaching page.
Communication & Branding Strategy
A communication and branding strategy is critical for establishing how an organization will communicate with its target audience and establish a unique identity in the market. A well thought-out plan will ensure that your company consistently reflects who you are as a company, what you stand for, and what makes you different from competitors. Our team will assist you in identifying what you want to achieve with your communication and branding efforts, exploring strategies around brand awareness, lead generation, solidifying reputation, or changing perceptions. We will collaborate with you in the creation of your company’s communications and branding plan.
OPERATIONAL OPTIMIZATION
We work with you to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your company's operations by analyzing and refining existing processes, performance methods, and systems workflows. The goal is to help you eliminate waste, save money, and increase profits while integrating these improvements into the fabric of your company's culture. We offer the following services:
Performance Management Program Design
We help your company develop an accountability program that will enable you to identify how and when to implement each level of strategy, and set the cadence and structure for reporting progress. We will then work with your leadership team to create a performance dashboard for recording, tracking, and reporting progress.
Internal Process Design & Structuring
We will assess the pathway to services and map the processes that support them to gain a greater understanding of the company’s continuum of service, thereby giving you a complete, real-time, validated view of your customer’s experience and journey. Upon acquiring a more comprehensive perspective, we conduct a gap analysis between the intended and actual objective for each service pathway and process, in addition to a resource assessment. This work will inform the company’s design and structure for the future.
Operational Assessment
The strength and value of a company’s operations is significantly influenced by its competitive competency. It is critical for your company to know and understand its capability and capacity to execute its strategy, projects, and programs. We will work with you to provide insight into your company’s ability to meet the demands of your internal environment and expectations of your external environment.
Implementation/Resource Alignment Strategy
We will work with you to develop your strategic plan, then assist you in identifying the cost of executing your plan while working with you to understand the financial impact on your budget. We achieve this by conducting an audit of your capability and capacity. We close out by identifying remediation strategies regarding addressing any resource gaps.
List of Services for ORGANIZATIONS (Nonprofit)
Our team specializes in creating implementable strategic plans, reimagining stronger business models, and conducting community-based assessments. We help nonprofits identify and expand their earned revenue streams, analyze their organizational capability and capacity needs, and benchmark best practices within their service sector.
Leveraging decades of experience in professional services, for-profit, nonprofit, and entrepreneurial consulting, our team is uniquely equipped to position you to meet mission in a sustainable way.
We work with you as a team, listening to your goals then harnessing our passion, purpose, and experience to assist you in achieving validated results.
We are proud to collaborate with our strategic alliance partner, Ashley | Roundtree, a comprehensive services nonprofit located in Louisville, KY.
Strategic Planning
Our strategic planning process is comprehensive and is specifically designed to help our client-partners grow, prosper, and succeed. At its core, this strategic planning service guides your organization in identifying your strategic pillars, setting goals, and establishing initiatives. We also provide guidance on how to identify your action steps and measures of success, while ensuring that they are realistic, and data supported. Ultimately, we work with you to create an organization-designed Strategic Plan.
Strategic & Implementation Strategy
We will work with you to develop your strategic plan, then assist you in identifying the cost of executing your plan while establishing remediation strategies regarding addressing your resource gaps. Alongside this work, we help your organization develop an accountability program that will enable you to identify how and when to implement each level of strategy.
Program Portfolio Assessment
Creating the right program mix and structure enables you to effectively meet mission financially and deliver continuous quality service. We will guide your organization in using criteria to help you determine if a program is viable. The criteria to ascertain viability is based upon the outcomes from conducting various analyses that look at return on effort and investment, resource deficiencies, performance effectiveness, and if relevant, compliance status.
Operational Assessment
The strength and value of an organization’s operations is significantly influenced by its competitive competency. It is critical for your organization to know and understand its capability and capacity to execute its strategy, projects, and programs. We will work with you to provide insight into your organization’s ability to meet the demands of your internal environment and expectations of your external environment.
Business Model Assessment
A robust business model enables your organization to focus on business sustainability – thinking beyond just making ends meet, and financial planning that supports your services and programs long-term – thinking beyond just keeping the doors open. Our team will administer an operational assessment to evaluate performance, conduct market research to identify innovative business strategies, and examine current and potential revenue streams that could create a strong and diversified portfolio. Additionally, we analyze your capability and create a realistic and achievable business model. This work will set the foundation for the creation of a blueprint, which will stand as the guidance for reimagining your organization’s competitive business model.
Process or Customer Journey Mapping
We will assess the pathway to services and map the processes that support them to gain a greater understanding of the organization’s continuum of service, thereby giving you a complete, real-time, validated view of your customer’s experience and journey. Upon acquiring a more comprehensive perspective, we conduct a gap analysis between the intended and actual objective for each service pathway and process, in addition to a resource assessment. This work will inform the organization’s design and structure for the future.
Revenue Generation Mix Audit
Getting a realistic view of your revenue position is a critical aspect of achieving and maintaining sound financial stewardship. Just as important is understanding your current revenue generation model. We will evaluate your current revenue streams, identify opportunities to maximize them and create new ones.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Identifying and effectively implementing the right type of partnership can extend the reach of your mission, enhance the social impact, and sustain the life of your organization. Our experienced consultants can help you find the right partner, determine the best type of alliance, and guide you through all the steps associated with effectively combining resources.
Our business clients span a number of industries and business segments. They often have outgrown their current operational infrastructure and are experiencing growing pains due to their lack of capacity to scale the business to the next level. Or they may be experiencing the operational impact of functional teams that do not execute effectively either internally or cross-functionally. Some reach out to us having lost market share due to inefficient business processes, outdated programmatic systems or staff that lack the capability to successfully meet client expectations. In short, they have begun to stagnate along the path of the business life cycle.
At Ascension Strategies, we understand the journey of growth and transformation firsthand. We are real people who have faced challenges, learned valuable lessons, and overcome obstacles in our own careers and businesses. Our collective wisdom and experience serve as beacons to light the path for our clients. We leverage our resources and strengths to enhance the lives of our clients and advance their companies or organizations. As problem solvers, we provide expert solutions and support in executing them, ensuring optimal outcomes and sustainable impact. Ascension Strategies excels in applying performance management techniques to drive optimal output and achieve socially impactful outcomes. We assess operational effectiveness and efficiency, identifying a client's capabilities and capacities to enhance competitive competency, while also focusing on nurturing individual leaders within the organization or company. Our objective is to propel clients beyond stagnation and overwhelm, empowering them to regain ownership of their growth journey – their evolution.
OUR APPROACH
We believe in a structured approach to growth and our Own Your Evolution™ model encapsulates and reflects that with four key steps: Clarity, Engage, Conquer and Evolve. Whether walking individuals or teams from point A to point B, serving as both thought partners and accountability partners, we take a strategic view of transformation and transition. Our approach is grounded in critical thinking, guided by value-based decision-making informed by data and best practices. We address the needs of our clients holistically, facilitating service delivery experiences that celebrate individual contributions while promoting the collective effort. Ascension Strategies brings order to chaos, offering dependable support to facilitate impactful outcomes and sustainable growth.