Seasoned executives helping companies improve business performance

Are you facing a business challenge that is keeping you up at night?

Are you looking for help – someone with top-tier consulting background but who also has the operational experience to understand how business really works?

And are you looking for practical solutions – solutions that work not only on paper, but in the reality of your daily business?

Top-Tier Consulting Experience

Ascend Sales Partners brings deep business experience to these challenges.  We are dedicated to helping companies improve performance and accelerate growth.

With over 50 years of operations, business development, and C-Level executive experience, we can help you identify and resolve the causes of inconsistent operating performance and shortfalls in earnings growth.  Whether your challenge is strategy, talent, operational processes, or the application of business technology, Ascend is here to help.

Ascend’s principals approach engagements from a CEO/owner perspective, drawing on their experiences as President and CEO of companies over the years as well as from their board positions with private equity-backed companies.  They rely on a combination of deep frontline experience and rigorous bottom-up analysis, grounded in approaches the principals used at McKinsey & Company and Deloitte Consulting.

For more information on Ascend’s principals, please click here, or contact us.

Example Services

These are a few of the questions and challenges that Ascend frequently helps clients resolve:

Company Strategic Planning

• What should our strategy be when we go to market?
• In which segments or markets should we compete for business (and which should we avoid)?
• How can we best position ourselves versus our competition?
• What is our Unique Selling Proposition, and how can we best communicate it?
• Is our pricing (and discounting) appropriate, or are we leaving money on the table?

Operational Excellence

• Are our operational processes effective and efficient yet not bureaucratic or stifling the organization?
• Are there opportunities to reduce costs without impacting our core capabilities?
• Do our departments and teams work effectively together, and are we encouraging internal collaboration instead of competition?
• Do we use appropriate milestones and metrics to guide and motivate the team?
• Are our reward programs (cash, awards, recognition) properly structured and aligned with our goals?

Business Development and Sales

• Are we hiring and retaining the right talent in our sales organization?
• Are our growth and sales goals appropriately aggressive but still achievable for the best talent?
• Is our sales process based on a proven approach and applied in a unified manner?
• Does our team effectively and efficiently qualify prospects so that time is always allocated to accounts with the highest expected yield?
• Do we effectively penetrate prospect accounts in our calls and meetings, including selling to the right function and level?

Ascend does not hard sell – we discuss your challenges in a thoughtful dialogue and together decide if it makes sense to take the conversation further. 

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