Founded in 2004, Ascend Partners provides lasting support to management teams in their effort to conceive and implement profound strategic and organizational transformations. Our partners, whom are often found on the field, work closely with our clients and intervene both on the projects’ technical aspects and on their human and managerial dynamics.
While we keep a pragmatic mindset and rely as much as possible on internal resources, our broad experience allows us to aim high: our goal in every mission is ultimately that your organization finds itself more confident and autonomous in driving its projects.
We always make sure to stay practical and focused on the reality of your organization so we can make pertinent and realistic suggestions: we don’t want our recommendations to look good on paper, we want them to actually work for you.
Our experience has taught us that each company has its own issues. This is why we never carry out the same mission twice. However, we usually work along five guiding lines:
• Strategic vision and step-by-step implementation to articulate ambition and practical execution
• Organization to support companies in adopting more collaborative and performing but undogmatic ways of functioning
• Culture and management so that you are always able to walk the talk
• Governance to ensure cohesion and coherence at the top
• Leaders to reflect on and prepare to the upcoming managerial, organizational and business evolutions
We have been doing it for 30 years at all levels and across a broad range of sectors, always driven by the pleasure of discovering and undertaking new projects.
Three core beliefs drive our work:
• People make it happen, not transformation programs. We work in a way that makes people want to participate while feeling they have space to create their own adventure within the project;
• There is no long-term change without a comprehensive vision that includes economics, organizational and human perspectives. We work closely with the leaders to make sure this vision is clear to all and that it trickles down smoothly across the organization;
• Change can truly happen only if it is created with our clients’ teams and on the field.
Our small team of experienced consultants with varied profiles will assist you in your projects.
Don't hesitate to contact us for more information!
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Vincent Roger
Two permanent features of my job make it ever more enjoyable : being continually challenged to go beyond limits and having total confidence in the teams’ ability to move mountains.
They are also key in another passion of mine: supporting youngsters at rugby school.
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Pierre Crozier
After thirty years of experience alongside management teams, meeting new partners and working with them towards achieving common goals is now more than ever what I enjoy the most. As it has grown to become an essential part of my work, I have also found that I draw a strong sense of usefulness from providing individual support to leaders.
My passion ? Music : jazz, Frank Zappa… and (humbly) playing the saxophone.
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Catherine Valmorin
For 20 years, I have been motivated by establishing connections, by listening and meeting our clients’ needs with good spirits. I work closely with the team to make sure our missions unfold smoothly.
On the side, I am preparing a PhD in psychology and I love theatre.
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Hervé Kauffmann
I have been supported by Ascend Partners as a manager for over 5 years. That was until I decided to jump and join their team, with whom I deeply enjoy working every day.
Another important project? TAE, a small company founded by ATD Quart Monde that proves every day that "no one is unemployable".
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Marine Franchot
It is my conviction that change and creativity are best reached through uncertainty. I try to bring teams to see their organization in a different way and to rethink its model and its way of functioning. If necessary, by breaking through absurd social codes and frustrations. My passion is to release long term innovations everywhere they are in the company.
What else ? As a former professional athlete, committed to sustainable consumption and social entrepreneurship, “I have chosen to be optimist because it is healthy” (Voltaire).
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Juliette Lassignardie
My main drive is to work with the whole human dimension of each organization: It is an essential requirement if we want to change things for the better! Hence why I have combined business and psychology postgraduate studies before joining Ascend Partners.
Something else ? I enjoy clay modeling and drawing portraits once in a while…
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Régis Dubourg
As I gerw up in the countryside, it was the agricultural and food sector that fascinated me very early on. As a leader, in various professions, organizations and governances, I have initiated and led transformations. I was able to experience how difficult but possible it is to question oneself and find, through change, new creations of value; when the meaning is there, really there. In another register, I am involved in different ways in the service of the Catholic Church. -
Aymeric Quarré de Verneuil
Nourished by history and humanities, I put my experience acquired in different contexts to help women and men invent their own path of transformation. Then to live it fully in a complex world that questions what is the basis of our humanity. What nourishes me and revitalizes me? A few hours suspended reading with a view of the sea or a fleeting verse picked from a collection of poetry then shared with those I love
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Charlie Duperron
As a sociologist, it's a pleasure to call on the humanities to help teams solve complex problems. Convinced that all success is based on collective intelligence and a taste for discovery, I like to get involved as closely as possible with the organization in a spirit of companionship and mutual learning. In parallel ? A gourmet passion for gastronomy!
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75016 Paris