Ascension's Core Values

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Our mission is to have a positive, lasting impact on the world by helping businesses succeed through no-nonsense consulting to achieve Vision to Value at Velocity. To get there, we must have an exceptional team performing at their best. 

We make this happen through exceptional values and culture. Our core philosophy is people over process. With this approach, we create outstanding outcomes for our clients while creating a more focused, flexible, stimulating, creative, collaborative, and successful team.

The real values of a firm are shown by what is rewarded. Below are our eight values and the behaviors and skills we promote, value, and reward in our team. 

• You listen well and seek to understand
• You adapt your communication style to work well with others' styles
• You provide candid, constructive, and timely feedback 
• You are concise and articulate

• You learn rapidly and eagerly and strive to learn from your mistakes
• You contribute effectively outside of your specialty
• You make connections that others miss
• You seek alternative perspectives

• You speak up, even if it is uncomfortable, to create the best outcomes
• You make tough decisions without paralysis
• You take smart risks and aren’t afraid of failure 
• You question actions inconsistent with our values

• You formulate new strategies and concepts
• You re-imagine issues to discover solutions
• You challenge prevailing assumptions and suggest alternative approaches
• You thrive in a high pace, dynamic environment

• You collaborate effectively with people of diverse backgrounds and cultures
• You nurture and embrace different perspectives to make better decisions
• You recognize we all have biases and work to grow past them
• You are curious about how different backgrounds impact us at work and intervene if someone is being marginalized 

• You are known for candor, authenticity, transparency, and being non-political
• You admit mistakes freely and openly
• You treat people with respect regardless of their status
• You always share relevant information

• You accomplish important work
• You demonstrate consistently strong performance 
• You support your colleagues and clients
• You focus on results over process

• You make intelligent decisions despite uncertainty
• You identify root causes and move beyond managing symptoms
• You think strategically and use data to inform your intuition
• You make decisions balancing long term and short term