Discover. Dream. Do.
We help impact-driven leaders and teams unlock their potential and ascend to the next level through an energizing process that draws on your core values and existing strengths to create positive, lasting change.
Our clients tell us that our strength-based approach is one of the most meaningful professional experiences they’ve had.
Our consulting sessions create a forum for discovering and capitalizing on your strengths to help you breakthrough to the next level of success.
Replace deficit-based thinking with strength-based strategizing.
What if instead of a SWOT analysis, which creates an environment focused on weaknesses and threats, you conducted a SOAR analysis — a process that focuses on Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations and Results?
Build change-oriented connections across your team and stakeholders.
Next Ascent brings together people who don’t typically share the same space and places them on a level playing field. The CFO and the truck driver. The board member and the customer. The intern and the VP. These “improbable pairs” give way to a more collective, collaborative process and allow us to engage all stakeholders and representatives. Coming together across different levels opens minds to new possibilities.
Discover how stakeholder stories can illuminate next steps.
We take great time to get to know you and your story. We ask a deep set of customized questions that prompt you to anecdotally share stories about your own day-to-day experiences. This part of the process ultimately takes us all on an enlightening journey of self-discovery in which you tap into your positive core and how to operate at your very best.
Create energy across your group or organization.
Next Ascent’s expertise allows you to tap into creativity and open-mindedness, communication and connection. At the end of every session, the energy in the room has changed dramatically. There is a palpable sense of possibility and not just one, but multiple paths forward. We’ll consult with you to help you develop clear, concrete action steps forward.
While the journey is different from organization to organization, one takeaway is common: a newfound ability to see the possibilities that lie beyond every challenge. That’s the power of a profoundly positive, strength-based approach.
“We’ve never had anybody ask us so many questions or get to know us so well.”
[Robert Reid, Executive Vice President and Chief Accreditation Officer, AACSB International]
“While I was already familiar with Appreciative Inquiry, Pam was creative and innovative in applying Appreciative Inquiry to take advantage of the uniqueness of a very large member/service organization. It allowed us to honor the many voices of Rotary and to focus on what we do best and what we want more of.”
[Slade Lewis, Assistant District Governor and Strategic Planning Chair, Rotary District 7690]