FOR BUSINESSES · WORKPLACE COACHING · STAFF WELLBEING
Your best people are
carrying more than you know.
High performers don’t break loudly. They quietly withdraw, disengage, and eventually leave taking years of experience and relationships with them.
Ascend Coaching works with businesses who want to act before that happens.
Protecting your people is a business decision.
The cost of losing a senior person
Recruitment, onboarding, lost relationships, and disruption to team culture. The cost of replacing a senior employee is typically 50–200% of their annual salary. Protecting your people is the most straightforward retention strategy available.
Prevention, not crisis management
By the time performance visibly drops, the damage is already done. Proactive coaching support acts before that point, delivered as professional development, not a welfare concern. This is how high-performing organisations stay that way.
ROI you can measure
Retention rates, productivity, team cohesion, and absence metrics are all measurable. We help you build the internal business case alongside the engagement itself so the value is visible from the outset.
The same people.
A different buyer.
The avatar for our business work is the same as our individual coaching — high-performing professionals who are outwardly functional but internally fragmenting. The difference is someone else is now spotting it and paying to fix it.
The individuals we typically work with:
- Middle managers carrying team responsibility without peer support
- Senior staff who are high-performing but visibly exhausted
- High-potential people at risk of leaving or burning out
- Leaders navigating significant change or pressure
The businesses who hire us:
- SMEs and growing businesses who have invested significantly in their people
- Organisations that want to act proactively rather than reactively
- Leaders who recognise the personal cost of sustained high performance
- Companies where culture and retention matter to the business case
HOW IT WORKS – THREE DELIVERY MODELS
Structured to work around your organisation.
Group Sessions
Structured workshops on pressure, performance, and identity for teams of 4-12. Delivered as professional development, no stigma, no clinical framing. Typically monthly or bi-monthly. Steve leads every session.
✔ Teams of 4-12 people
✔ Monthly or bi-monthly cadence
✔ Pressure, performance & identity focus
✔ Professional development framing
✔ Steve leads personally
Individual Coaching
Allocated 1-2-1 coaching slots for staff identified as needing deeper, more personal support. Uses the same Ascend framework, applied individually. Access to all levels of the Elevate & Conquer programme.
✔ Individual staff allocations
✔ 1-2-1 sessions with Steve
✔ Full Ascend framework applied
✔ Confidential and personal
✔ Programme access included
Blended Programme
A scoped combination of group and individual work, tailored to your organisation’s structure and the specific challenges you’re seeing in your people. Most common engagement type.
✔ Group sessions + individual allocations
✔ Scoped per organisation
✔ Most flexible approach
✔ Ongoing or fixed-term
✔ Measurable outcomes agreed upfront
Steve Bennett
FOUNDER · ASCEND COACHING
WHY STEVE
Not an HR consultant.
Not a wellness vendor.
Steve isn’t a consultant who advises on people strategy from the outside. He built a £20m business, managed teams at scale, and has been on both sides of the pressure equation as the person responsible for staff, and as the person who broke.
That’s the differentiator. He understands what’s happening inside your people because he’s lived it himself. His coaching isn’t theoretical it’s built from the same structural work that pulled him through.
Pricing is scoped per organisation and delivery model.
Engagements typically start at £1,000+ per month.
Book a conversation to discuss your specific situation.
Honest answers to the questions businesses ask first.
Is this therapy?
No. This is structured coaching and professional development, focused on performance, direction, and sustainable working. There’s no clinical framing and no welfare stigma. It’s delivered as a professional service.
How is this different from an EAP?
EAPs (Employee Assistance Programmes) are typically reactive, available when something goes wrong. Ascend’s business coaching is proactive: structured, ongoing support before problems develop. Different purpose, different delivery, different outcome.
What size businesses do you work with?
We work with SMEs and growing businesses where the leadership genuinely knows their people. Typically 10–200 employees, though we assess each enquiry individually. We don’t work with anonymous large corporates.
How do you measure impact?
We agree measurable outcomes at the outset, typically around retention, performance, engagement, and absence. Progress is reviewed at regular intervals. We help you build the internal case before and during the engagement.
