Ascendant Global Leadership, LLC

Every organization today invests in leadership development to boost employee engagement, deal with gaps in the talent pipeline, and address the problem of employee turnover. However, they are often overwhelmed by the available leadership development frameworks.

When multiple leadership frameworks, theories, and languages are cobbled together in development programs, businesses can lose coherence and the value of having one unified language to use in discussing, evaluating, and improving the effectiveness of their leaders.

That’s where Ascendant Global Leadership comes in.

As a leadership consulting firm, Ascendant Global Leadership specializes in individual and group leadership development. Its mission is to develop ascendant leaders capable of conquering organizational challenges through life-changing experiences.

“As leadership scholars, we believe that the transformational leadership framework that we use as the base of practice is a broad foundation within which most of the clients’ leadership development needs can be met,” says Greg Allen, partner at Ascendant Global Leadership. “We carefully work with each client to select any additional tools and elements that are added.”

Ascendant Global Leadership is a member of the network that has come together around The Leadership Challenge model by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, which is a research and evidence-based program designed to enhance leadership and organizational excellence.

Decades of development has identified specific learnable, teachable skills, and behaviors common to leaders who achieve extraordinary results.

“Our first introduction to The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner was in textbooks during our doctoral studies when we were researching ways to measure transformational leadership outcomes.

It was the strength of the empirical research that is the basis for The Leadership Challenge that attracted us to the community of practitioners,” says Dr. Ron Siers, partner at Ascendant Global Leadership.

Whether Ascendant Global Leadership works with a group of rising leaders or with individuals in demanding leadership positions, it pushes clients to not just learn leadership behaviors that produce great results but to put them into practice.

Using the same model, Ascendant Global Leadership devised a solution for organization-wide leadership development at a private company that involved end-toend development throughout the employee experience. The program begins with probing questions to use during interviews; next, there are elements used during onboarding, followed by initial leadership core training; finally, a “graduate” leadership academy focuses on applying leadership learning with lots of peer-to-peer problem-solving.

As leadership scholars, we believe that the transformational leadership framework that we use as the base of practice is a broad foundation within which most of the clients’ leadership development needs can be met

The example makes it clear that Ascendant Global Leadership’s deep immersion in leadership scholarship allows them to bring in customized elements to enhance the leadership development experience. As a result, it is able to improve the performance of clients’ leader corps without overwhelming with overlapping leadership frameworks.

“The literature is clear that the greatest weakness in leadership development programs is the extent to which the investment translates to meaningful and lasting performance improvements,” says Allen. “We are committed to working with our clients to ensure the learning is applied to current leadership challenges and that excellence in leadership becomes a core element of organizational culture.”