Ascend Sales Partners helps companies grow: grow quickly, grow smartly, and grow profitably. Whether a client is trying to reposition itself, boost sales performance, or improve operations, Ascend Sales Partners delivers plans that work in the real world.
Clients
Our clients are all established companies, but revenue levels vary widely – from a few million dollars to more than $1 billion. The common thread is frustration with missed goals or concern that results, while trending positively, may not reflect the company's true potential.
Clients value our direct approach, candor, and battle-tested strategies and solutions that have been proven to work in other high-performing teams.
Approach and Practice Areas
Ascend approaches clients’ challenges from the perspective of seasoned executives with a high standard for practical, real world solutions. Drawing on the principals’ C-level operating experience and extensive advisory work, we strive to understand the specifics of your operating environment and design a solution that will work well in that context. We also emphasize lean, scalable and repeatable management processes that take into account how companies actually work.
Our expertise includes building and managing successful sales teams, implementing new technologies, reengineering and scaling operational processes, driving major negotiations and corporate development initiatives (e.g., strategic investments and acquisitions), and many other areas. Depending on your needs, we can addresses critical leverage points such as:
- Enhancing your company’s positioning in the market, identifying where it faces strategic threats and opportunities, and helping you formulate and implement the strategy most effective in improving your bottom line
- Identifying high-impact improvement areas in your sales or business development function, including such areas as selecting and incentivizing star sales talent, implementing lean and effective sales processes, and utilizing proven management systems and metrics
- Better aligning operations with your company’s core business objectives through process improvement and redesign, as well as change management initiatives directed at building a healthy, sales-driven culture
Ascend combines thorough research, smart analysis, and years of personal experience to deliver to you recommendations that have impact – plans that work in the real world.
See the principals’ backgrounds here.