Expertise

Strategy Development

Review an existing strategy and develop a new one that considers an evolving talent pool and competitive landscape.

What we provide in a Consulting Engagement:

  1. A 1-day Executive Briefing that drills down into your existing strategy and ends with an updated version for the next year.
  2. A 360 Talent Report of your existing talent pool’s capabilities, hiring process and their alignment with your strategic goals.
  3. An SVP-level Financials and Resource Review.

Digital Transformation

Assess your organization’s readiness to adopt new tools that will improve knowledge management, internal communication and decision-making.

What we provide in a Consulting Engagement:

  1. An organization-wide Digital Transformation Readiness Assessment.
  2. A 1-day Executive Workshop to develop a Digital Transformation Strategy.
  3. Staff Education Sessions on the use of AI for leadership decisions, innovation, and task automation.

Workflow Automation

Integrate AI agents and tools to your organization’s daily operations. Some of the tools we use are the following:

n8n helps you build agentic workflows that automate your repetitive tasks. It is very helpful especially for back office functions.

Claude and OpenAI help you with code writing, content creation, to name a few.

NotebookLM is your best ally when it comes to report generation and document analysis.

Organizational Development

Enhance organizational effectiveness and staff wellbeing through the identification of surgical interventions at the process, people, or functional level.

What we provide in a Consulting Engagement:

  1. Senior Leadership Team + Anonymous Staff Survey to identify the gaps in understanding between leaders and followers.
  2. Case Study Report that describes the organization’s current challenges and ideal reality, as well as Ascend’s Recommendations Playbook tailored for your organization.

Cybersecurity

Assess your organization’s readiness to protect itself from external attacks.

Policy & Research Development

Develop forward-looking policies that prepare your organization for new realities.