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01Private Executive Advisory
The compounding architecture
of an executive career.
Founded by Yale School of Management alumni for executives of the same caliber. We engineer the long-arc strategy, positioning, and negotiation that determine the ceiling of a professional life.
Our clients are alumni of
·Amazon·Apple·Microsoft·Disney·Google·Goldman Sachs·McKinsey & Company·IBM·Bloomberg·Deloitte·Unilever·Capital One·Dell·Etsy·World Bank Group·U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs·Thomson Reuters·Lowe's·Reckitt·ServiceNow·CDC·Duke Energy·NCR Voyix·Audubon·The Jackson Laboratory·Indium·Amazon·Apple·Microsoft·Disney·Google·Goldman Sachs·McKinsey & Company·IBM·Bloomberg·Deloitte·Unilever·Capital One·Dell·Etsy·World Bank Group·U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs·Thomson Reuters·Lowe's·Reckitt·ServiceNow·CDC·Duke Energy·NCR Voyix·Audubon·The Jackson Laboratory·Indium
02Thesis
A career is the largest asset most executives will ever manage.
Across a thirty-year executive arc, the difference between a well-managed career and an unmanaged one is rarely measured in percentages. It is measured in tiers: of seniority, of equity participation, of governance.
We treat the executive career as a portfolio: a defined set of capitals to be deliberately constructed, sequenced, and compounded. Our work is the strategy, governance, and negotiation that institutional capital receives by default, and that even the most accomplished individual operators rarely receive at all.
We do not coach. We advise.
03The Six Capitals
The Ascensus Framework
Every engagement is structured around six dimensions of executive career capital: measured, sequenced, and compounded.
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Market Capital
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Network Capital
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Brand Capital
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Career Strategy
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Negotiation Power
04Measurable Outcomes
Career ROI, expressed as a number.
$100K+
In additional negotiated hard compensation per year
$50K+
In additional negotiated soft compensation per year
<3 mo
Fastest placement from the start of an engagement
05In Their Words
What clients say once the work is done.
"Ascensus was pivotal in making my Yale MBA valuable. Every graduate of top business schools should be working with them."
"I've paid for career services before and they only delivered a fraction compared to what Ascensus offers. It's night and day."
"Before Ascensus, I was wasting countless hours applying to jobs without much success. After Ascensus, it was like I was on autopilot gaining opportunities with little effort."
"I had to pause their services at one point because I was getting more opportunity than I could handle."
"This service is easily worth 3X what they charge. The ROI is unlike any other firm out there."
"With sophisticated tech, they transformed my professional reach and opened doors I couldn't have accessed on my own."
06Begin
Measure your executive career capital.
A 4-minute confidential diagnostic across six dimensions of executive capital. Generates a personalized score, trajectory projection, and lifetime earnings optimization estimate.
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