Our current CEO, Bill Lawry, (visit his LinkedIn page) founded Ascend in 2013. His passion and purpose have always been to create a boutique international consultancy that brings together great people with deep expertise to support and challenge leaders and leadership teams to attain and sustain elite performance. The business has evolved and been organised to ensure it has the scale and range of expertise to work with and support both large and small businesses worldwide.
Our faculty brings an energy and passion to the table that makes things happen. Driven by a genuine desire to help you succeed, we have a unique perspective that is intuitive and agile, builds confidence, and enables you to reach higher. Additionally, our people have a collaborative, pragmatic, result oriented and people centric approach. They work on developing robust relationships with clients and participants to build trust and enhance successful outcomes.
Faculty members come from a wide variety of backgrounds, bringing a diverse blend of experience that bridges all sectors, and that spans multiple geographies. We work carefully with our clients to ensure that we appropriately match the skills, experience, strengths and styles of faculty members with the context, culture and specifics of each client / client assignment.
