ascend360 corporate
leaders who perform at work without losing themselves at home
A leadership programme for organisations whose best people are delivering at work and running on empty at home. Built to raise performance, protect wellbeing and keep your top talent.
Ready to see if it fits your team?
Your best people are delivering. But for how long?
Your top performers hit their numbers. They carry the team. They answer emails at 10pm.
Then the cost shows up somewhere a dashboard can’t see it: tired, short-fused managers, quiet disengagement, sick days, and resignation letters from the people you can least afford to lose.
The numbers back it up:
- Manager engagement has dropped 9 points since 2022, and leaders now report more stress than the people they manage. (Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2026)
- Only around 60% of UK managers say they have the training they need, and a similar share say they have enough time. (CIPD Good Work Index 2025)
- Employees whose job harms their mental health are more than twice as likely to leave within 12 months. (CIPD Good Work Index 2025)
Most wellbeing activity treats the symptom: a webinar, an app, a fruit bowl. It doesn’t change how your leaders manage their time, energy and attention, at work and at home.
Signs it’s time:
- Managers stuck in reaction and firefighting mode
- Strong performers burning out or quietly disengaging
- Wellbeing spend that isn’t moving retention or performance
- Leaders who set high standards for others but can’t sustain them themselves
This is where it changes.
THE PROGRAMME
Ascend360 Leadership: a six-month programme for leaders and managers.
This isn’t a one-off workshop that’s forgotten by Friday. It’s spread over six months so the habits stick, built on 16 years of coaching and consulting, my Royal Marines training, and the same systems I use with high-performing business owners.
It’s built around the 4Cs of Command:
1. COMMAND your time — prioritise ruthlessly and stop living in the inbox.
2. CONTROL your energy — sleep, movement, recovery and regulation that sustain high performance.
3. CONNECT with purpose — lead your team with clarity and presence, and still show up at home.
4. CONTINUE the mission — embed the standard so it lasts long after the programme ends.
what’s included
Over six months your organisation receives:
- A culture read with your senior team to pin down the real challenges and what success looks like
- 30-minute 1:1 coaching sessions with up to 10 managers
- Two half-day leadership workshops
- Five monthly follow-up touchpoints to keep momentum
- Accountability between sessions so new habits stick
- An optional review session at 3 or 6 months
the outcome
By the end of the programme your leaders will:
- Run their time, instead of their inbox running them
- Bring more energy and focus to the work that matters
- Lead their teams with clarity, calm and accountability
- Model sustainable high performance for the people around them
- Go home with something left for their families
For the organisation: stronger performance, better retention of top talent, and a leadership culture people want to stay in.
track record
Trusted by
British Olympic boxing and shooting coaches · UK Anti-Doping · Premier Education (built their national Fitness in Schools programme) · Lloyds · Greencore · Linbrooke · Rokar · Barr Waste Management
Every programme is shaped around your team size and goals. Book a 20-minute discovery call and I’ll tell you straight whether it’s the right fit.
ross cooney
I’m Ross Cooney, founder of Ascend360.
I’ve coached and consulted for 16 years, with British Olympic boxing and shooting coaches, UK Anti-Doping, Lloyds, Greencore and Linbrooke, and with business owners and leaders across the UK. I served in the Royal Marines, I’ve lectured, I’m a TEDx speaker, and I race triathlons. A life built around discipline, performance, and presence.
I’m also a husband and a father. I know what it costs when high performance at work comes at the expense of home, and I’ve built the systems that fix it.
I only teach what I personally do. No theory. No recycled frameworks. No corporate box-ticking.
If you want your leaders held to a higher standard, and given the tools to sustain it, that’s the bar I work to.
Based in Yorkshire. Working with organisations across the UK.
