Empowering Leaders and Teams to SOAR Forward.
Take Your Leadership and Your Team to New Heights.
Were your managers taught how to lead, or just promoted? Is your team fully engaged? Are you still growing as a leader?
Whether you're developing managers, building a coaching culture, or strengthening your own leadership skills, I'll give you the tools, training, and guidance to move forward with confidence and get results. My SOAR Forward Conversation Model™ gives you a practical framework for asking better questions, encouraging self-reflection, driving action, and reinforcing progress.
With 30+ years of real-world leadership experience, I will share actionable strategies you can use right away to develop your team, increase engagement, and grow your organization.
Are you leading,or just managing the chaos?
Every leader wants a high-performing team, but few are taught how to inspire one.
- Are you working harder than ever and still not seeing results?
- Are your leaders avoiding difficult conversations while problems grow?
- Are your top performers struggling to lead after being promoted?
- Are your leaders guessing at what motivates their team members?
- Have you launched new engagement strategies, only to watch them fade within weeks?
- Is your team facing constant change with AI and feeling left behind?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you're not alone.
That's where Ascend Forwardcomes in!
Move beyond managing tasks to inspiring people.Transform the way you think, act, communicate, and connect.
Stronger Leaders, Stronger Teams— Built Around Three Core Areas of Focus
Explore each area
to discover which approach
best supports you and your team.
Leadership Development Workshops
Leadership isn't a title—it is a set of behaviors anyone can learn and demonstrate. Built on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®, our interactive workshops equip you with the mindset and skills to inspire trust, strengthen accountability, navigate change, and bring out the best in others.
Build Exemplary Leaders
Coaching Workshop
and Executive Coaching
You want a team that is engaged, motivated, and performing at its best. The Coaching Culture Workshop gives you a clear process and proven tools to get there. This course is based on application rather than theory to shape everyday conversations into opportunities for greater connection and growth.
Unlock Coaching Potential
Team Development and Behavioral Analysis
Teams don't struggle because of talent—they struggle because of communication. With Maxwell Leadership® sessions and DISC, leaders review established leadership principles and learn how to communicate effectively with team members who have different behavioral styles.
Strengthen Your TeamLeadership strategist grounded in 30+ years of real-world experience.
I founded Ascend Forward to develop leaders the way only lived experience can: not from a textbook, but from decades of leading through change, challenge, and growth.
During my career at WesBanco Bank and U.S. Bank, I built, delivered, and managed leadership and coaching programs that strengthened engagement, performance, and growth, including a WesBanco coaching workshop attended by more than 700 managers.
Today, as a certified trainer, I partner with organizations and individuals to create lasting learning and results through:
- Leadership workshops: The Leadership Challenge® Workshop and Self Empowered™ Workshop with detailed LPI® Assessments
- Coaching skills training: Coaching Culture Workshop and my SOAR Forward Conversation Model™
- Team development: Maxwell Leadership® programs and DISC behavioral assessments
- Executive coaching: for leaders ready to grow with greater clarity and confidence
When leaders grow, individuals thrive and organizations SOAR.
Proven Leadership. Lasting Impact.
Practical and Actionable
Real-world tools, frameworks, and strategies that leaders can apply immediately—designed to impact lasting behavior change and results.
Built from Real Experience
Decades of leadership, coaching, and learning-strategy experience delivering measurable results.
Trusted Certifications
Maxwell Leadership®, The Leadership Challenge®, Sherpa Coaching, Maxwell DISC Method, ATD, and Franklin Covey.
Customized Delivery
Programs tailored to your culture, your leaders, and the outcomes that matter most.
In-Person or Virtual
Engaging facilitation in the room or online— same depth, same outcomes.
Coaching at the Core
Every program incorporates coaching—building leaders who develop leaders.
Results that resonate long after the workshop ends.
"Patty consistently brings encouragement, a new perspective, and the ability to help others see the bigger picture. I am deeply grateful for her energy, motivating spirit, and unwavering willingness to support our work. Patty has played a meaningful role in the professional journeys of many at WesBanco, including my own. I am sincerely thankful for the time, guidance, and investment she has made in me and my team. She will always be regarded as one of my most impactful mentors and a valued friend."
"You make learning and development so interesting with just enough fun that keeps everyone focused and engaged. Thanks for being such a great leader!"
"The culture at WesBanco is changing and there is a greater understanding in the value of developing others and not just completing the work at hand. In the 7 years I have been at WesBanco, I have never had tools like this. As new supervisor, I feel supported and entrusted to develop future leaders. The leadership and coaching workshops I have attended have been phenomenal and I hope this type of development continues. Good stuff! Patty is an excellent facilitator!"
Ready to SOAR Forward?
When Leaders Grow, Everything Grows.
Let's talk about what you want to grow—whether it's your own leadership skills, developing emerging leaders, building a coaching culture, or increasing your team's engagement and performance. Together we'll find the right path forward.