The Path of Ascent: The Five Principles for Mastering Change

To meet the challenges of today s marketplace, companies across the world are attempting to change their organizations, business practices, and cultures. Most, however, encounter frustrating challenges along the pathway to true change. With rising internal and external pressures, these companies turn to ineffective approaches or manipulative techniques to make change happen as quickly as possible, only to find that change isn t working, or worse, that their efforts are backfiring!

Change, whether in an organization or in a personal life, can be difficult, and its results for good or bad will reach far into the future. Organizations and individuals must look to those who have been successful to learn proven principles for successful change. The most successful organizational transformations have followed a distinctive pattern a steady upward climb toward loftier goals. In other words, these successful companies took The Path of Ascent.

In The Path of Ascent, accomplished consultant and executive coach Juan Riboldi presents a step-by-step course for long-lasting and positive change, based on his wide experience in consulting and his research into 50 organizations that undertook major transformations. This course includes the Five Ascent PrinciplesTM, which, when applied correctly, can help a leader, a team, or an organization make the most of the opportunity for change.

The Path of Ascent provides the framework for organizations to begin their own upward climb to greater success. The framework includes the following:

A clear choice between the ever-increasing success of The Path of Ascent and the ups and downs of The Roller Coaster Ride that most people follow.
Timeless principles for leading successful change at work and in a personal life.
Insightful ideas and memorable stories filled with practical applications of the Five Ascent Principles.
A proven process to improve performance and to achieve better results.
Downloadable Ascent Planner forms for improving personal and team performance.

Above all, The Path of Ascent will teach individuals and organizations to master change that will help them cope with challenges, pressures, and the difficulties of the modern global marketplace.

Juan Riboldi is the President and Principal Advisor at Ascent Advisor, a consulting firm specializing in leadership and organizational change. Juan is an accomplished consultant, executive coach, public speaker, and author. He has taught executive courses at Harvard Business School, Pepperdine University, and Brigham Young University. An avid triathlete and sailor, Juan resides with his family at the foothills of the Wasatch mountains.