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Workshops & Events (3 new items)

Workshops & Events

We deliver high-calibre experiences that inspire teams, build trust, and create lasting impact. Every workshop, programme, or event is thoughtfully tailored to your specific objectives, budget, and schedule.

Our sessions explore themes such as confident leadership, mindset shifts, resilience under pressure, wellbeing and the power of curiosity and open-mindedness in modern leadership. Whether you're looking to energise a team, support a cultural transformation, or develop your leaders' emotional and strategic intelligence, we create experiences that engage, challenge, and elevate.

Book a call to discuss your event today.

Album Published May 28, 2025

Outplacement Support (1 new item)

OUTPLACEMENT SUPPORT

Whether the result of redundancy or mutual agreement, exiting a business can be one of the most personally and professionally disorienting experiences, like being cast adrift without a compass.

We are not a 'one size fits all' service, our approach is empathetic, strategic, and highly personalised. We create a space where ambition and vulnerability can coexist, offering the tools, coaching, and wellbeing support needed to move forward with optimism, strength, and purpose. Whether a client is exploring a portfolio career, launching a business, retraining entirely, or simply seeking a new role that aligns more closely with their values, we support them in defining what success looks like now and help them build a clear, confident path to get there.

Outplacement Support (1 new item)

OUTPLACEMENT SUPPORT

Whether the result of redundancy or mutual agreement, exiting a business can be one of the most personally and professionally disorienting experiences, like being cast adrift without a compass.

We are not a 'one size fits all' service, our approach is empathetic, strategic, and highly personalised. We create a space where ambition and vulnerability can coexist, offering the tools, coaching, and wellbeing support needed to move forward with optimism, strength, and purpose. Whether a client is exploring a portfolio career, launching a business, retraining entirely, or simply seeking a new role that aligns more closely with their values, we support them in defining what success looks like now and help them build a clear, confident path to get there.

Album Published May 27, 2025

Outplacement Support

OUTPLACEMENT SUPPORT

Whether the result of redundancy or mutual agreement, exiting a business can be one of the most personally and professionally disorienting experiences, like being cast adrift without a compass.

We are not a 'one size fits all' service, our approach is empathetic, strategic, and highly personalised. We create a space where ambition and vulnerability can coexist, offering the tools, coaching, and wellbeing support needed to move forward with optimism, strength, and purpose. Whether a client is exploring a portfolio career, launching a business, retraining entirely, or simply seeking a new role that aligns more closely with their values, we support them in defining what success looks like now and help them build a clear, confident path to get there.

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Coaching Services (1 new item)

COACHING SERVICES

Wherever you are in your career journey, we offer tailored support to meet you there. Our three core packages, which can also be tailored for leadership teams, have been thoughtfully designed to reflect the distinct phases of professional growth: Elevate, Evolve, and Empower.

Each one offers a focused, high-impact coaching experience to help you move forward with clarity, confidence, and momentum.

Elevate: Stepping Up with Confidence and Impact

Advancing into a high-profile leadership position is an exciting yet demanding transition. The Ascent provides expert coaching and strategic visibility solutions to help you lead with confidence, presence, and purpose at the highest levels.

Evolve: Changing Direction or Starting Something New

Whether moving into a new industry, launching a business, or creating a portfolio career, we will help you navigate these exciting changes and create a future that aligns with your values, ambitions, and lifestyle.

Empower: Strategic visibility and Impact

Designed to amplify your personal brand. This package offers strategic coaching and expert support to help you show up both physically and digitally with authority, authenticity, and impact.

Coaching Services (1 new item)

COACHING SERVICES

Wherever you are in your career journey, we offer tailored support to meet you there. Our three core packages, which can also be tailored for leadership teams, have been thoughtfully designed to reflect the distinct phases of professional growth: Elevate, Evolve, and Empower.

Each one offers a focused, high-impact coaching experience to help you move forward with clarity, confidence, and momentum.

Elevate: Stepping Up with Confidence and Impact

Advancing into a high-profile leadership position is an exciting yet demanding transition. The Ascent provides expert coaching and strategic visibility solutions to help you lead with confidence, presence, and purpose at the highest levels.

Evolve: Changing Direction or Starting Something New

Whether moving into a new industry, launching a business, or creating a portfolio career, we will help you navigate these exciting changes and create a future that aligns with your values, ambitions, and lifestyle.

Empower: Strategic visibility and Impact

Designed to amplify your personal brand. This package offers strategic coaching and expert support to help you show up both physically and digitally with authority, authenticity, and impact.

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Workshops & Events (1 new item)

Workshops & Events

We deliver high-calibre experiences that inspire teams, build trust, and create lasting impact. Every workshop, programme, or event is thoughtfully tailored to your specific objectives, budget, and schedule.

Our sessions explore themes such as confident leadership, mindset shifts, resilience under pressure, wellbeing and the power of curiosity and open-mindedness in modern leadership. Whether you're looking to energise a team, support a cultural transformation, or develop your leaders' emotional and strategic intelligence, we create experiences that engage, challenge, and elevate.

Book a call to discuss your event today.

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About (1 new item)

About

Founded by professional transformation coach Jo Glynn-Smith, The Ascent was created from a belief that leaders, and in particular female leaders, deserve a more nuanced approach to career coaching, and one that acknowledges ambition alongside the complexities of life outside the job.

Our clients are often juggling their professional aspirations whilst raising families, supporting loved ones, or navigating major life disruptions. We bring both expertise and lived experience to our work, because we understand the pressures and priorities that shape career decisions.

Many of our coaches are chosen specifically for their backgrounds in communications, marketing, and brand strategy, bringing sharp commercial acumen alongside creative perspective to their practice.

Each coaching package can be curated with support from our trusted network of expert associates. These include specialists in communications and personal brand impact, wellbeing and thought leadership, ensuring every client receives exactly what they need to achieve their goals, and do it with confidence.

About (1 new item)

About

Founded by professional transformation coach Jo Glynn-Smith, The Ascent was created from a belief that leaders, and in particular female leaders, deserve a more nuanced approach to career coaching, and one that acknowledges ambition alongside the complexities of life outside the job.

Our clients are often juggling their professional aspirations whilst raising families, supporting loved ones, or navigating major life disruptions. We bring both expertise and lived experience to our work, because we understand the pressures and priorities that shape career decisions.

Many of our coaches are chosen specifically for their backgrounds in communications, marketing, and brand strategy, bringing sharp commercial acumen alongside creative perspective to their practice.

Each coaching package can be curated with support from our trusted network of expert associates. These include specialists in communications and personal brand impact, wellbeing and thought leadership, ensuring every client receives exactly what they need to achieve their goals, and do it with confidence.

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Are you ready for your ascent? (1 new item)

Are you ready for your ascent?

We work with leaders at critical points in their careers, times of change, challenge, or opportunity when trusted guidance matters most. Our clients recognise that navigating these moments well requires more than experience or ambition alone; it calls for expert support, space to reflect, and a clear framework to move forward with confidence and purpose.

Our coaches bring decades of experience in leadership, communications, business and brand strategy. We understand the pace, pressure and complexity of modern leadership, especially for women, and we create a space for our clients to rise with confidence, intention and presence.

This is more than coaching. This is your ascent.

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Empowering Career Transitions (1 new item)

Empowering Career Transitions

The Ascent Associates is a specialist coaching and career transitions service designed to support leaders navigating pivotal career milestones and strategic transformations.

Whether you are stepping up, taking a new direction, building personal brand, or leaving corporate life to start something new, we provide bespoke coaching and strategic solutions to support powerful and meaningful transitions.