Leadership Development
From manager mindset to leader identity. The flagship leadership program — built directly on PERFORM Leadership, Tim's book. Six modules walk leaders from their personal operating system to leading a team, to leading other leaders.
What you walk away with.
The flagship leadership program — built directly on PERFORM Leadership, Tim's book. Six modules walk leaders from their personal operating system to leading a team, to leading other leaders.
- A leadership identity, not just a leadership job
- Clarity on the leader's operating rhythm
- Higher engagement and discretionary effort on the team
- Better decisions under uncertainty
The Ascent reinforcement layer
Every learner gets a Certificate of Completion, 24/7 access to the Ascent Online Learning Platform, downloadable tools and PDFs, a complimentary Tim Carlisle book, and the 8-week post-training reinforcement series.
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Built across three tiers — Foundations, Core, Pro. Pick a tier or mix them across your cohort. Individual learners can self-enroll at the right level.
Tier 1 — Foundations
New managers, team leads and high-potential employees making the shift from individual contributor to leader.
Explore Foundations →Tier 2 — Core Most popular
Practicing managers applying the PERFORM framework to live teams, real performance challenges and leadership results.
Explore Core →Tier 3 — Pro
Senior leaders, directors and executives leading other leaders, shaping culture and driving organizational performance.
Explore Pro →- The Inner Game — identity, language and self-belief
- Purpose — why you lead, in language your team can hear
- Energy — managing your own state so others can borrow it
- Relationships — the trust account and how to bank in it
- Focus — saying no, protecting the team's attention
- Outcomes — running the metrics without becoming the metrics
- Mastery — the long arc of leadership development
Audience
Corporate clients: high-potential employee programs, new manager cohorts, succession planning tracks and senior leadership development. Individual learners: self-enroll on the platform and progress through Foundations, Core and Pro — funded privately or through an employer development budget.
Delivery modes
- Self-paced online — 24/7 on the Ascent Learning Platform
- Live instructor-led sessions via Zoom, Teams or Google Meet
- Traditional in-person classroom workshops
- 60–90 minute micro-learnings for distributed leadership teams
- Bespoke 1:1 coaching for senior leaders
- AI-powered video assessment — record a response, get immediate AI feedback
From foundations to mastery, one tier at a time.
Three tiers move new managers from baseline behaviours through coaching practice to leading the next cohort across the business.
Foundations
Build the mindset, language and daily habits every leader needs before specialization.
Core
Apply the PERFORM framework to live teams, real performance conversations and the metric you actually report on.
Pro
Lead other leaders — develop talent, shape culture and drive organizational performance at the senior level.
Tailored. Not templated.
Large training vendors offer a catalogue program and a franchise trainer. Ascent builds every leadership program around your actual culture, your actual challenges and the leaders who are in the room — then reinforces it for 8 weeks after the workshop.
Built around your culture
The case studies, the role-plays and the coaching conversations are written for your industry and your actual leadership challenges — not adapted from a generic model.
The methodology is the intellectual property
Tim's PERFORM Leadership framework — published in his book and refined over 15 years — underpins every module. You're getting the source, not a third-party adaptation.
Behaviour change, not just awareness
The 8-week post-training reinforcement program — weekly videos and check-ins — is engineered specifically to turn classroom insight into permanent leadership behaviour.
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Let's design it to your team.
Tell us your team size, tier mix and timeline — we'll come back within one business day with a proposed program.
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