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You’re a high-performing, high-earning entrepreneur at the top of your game.

But, you have an internal battle that your life is on the back burner.

You’ve tried time management tools, delegation, and self-help books—and none of that lasts.

You’re at a crossroads. Can you achieve both business growth and a deeply rewarding life?

Yes, you absolutely can.

The bad news: Staying here is unsustainable. The strategies that got you here won’t get you further or higher. You’ll only work harder to stay where you are.

The good news: You can break free. The answer is to AIM HIGHER by transforming how you lead yourself, your time, and your team.

It’s time to become an Ascended Leader. We’ll show you how.

Feeling lit up is not the reward for business success, it’s the critical part of achieving it!

At Ascend Leadership Co., we help high-achieving entrepreneurs and founders running $1MM+ businesses break free from the Middle Zone of time stress, guilt, and overworking—while climbing to never-before-seen levels of success.

If real time off feels out of reach, time management strategies haven’t worked, and you’ve been wondering how to take back your time, energy, and joy so you’re less stretched and more connected, confident, and in control—welcome.

It’s time to live a life that is impossible to regret by creating a level of guilt-free freedom that includes space for rest, relationships, travel, adventure, creativity, spirituality, and fun.

We’re Nadine and Derek Nicholson, co-founders of Ascend Leadership Co. and the Five Forces of Ascended Leadership, and your guides to creating Impossible Freedom.

Our combined 60+ years of expertise in business, leadership, sales, operations, change management, communications, psychology, and PR in organizations of 100,000+ employees will help you turn what feels “impossible” into simple, practical, and do-able steps.

Let’s unapologetically put what lights you up at the center of your calendar—both inside and outside of business—so you can maximize your potential in business while also making room for more LIFE.

The Year of Impossible Freedom.

You need bold advocates, trusted confidantes, and wise counsel at your side as you become a more powerful, productive, and present leader.

In our leadership program Ascend to Freedom, we personally show you how to take back your time, energy, and joy—so you can create Impossible Freedom. You’ll learn how to drive business growth and create a fulfilling life, without having to sacrifice one for the other. 

Want to learn more? Let’s start with a 30-minute call to identify your biggest time leaks, and together we’ll map out an elevated vision for your next year, beyond what you thought possible.

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  • “I’ve been working with Ascend for less than 30 days and have a clear plan to cut my working hours in half, quadruple my revenue, hire up, and manage my time in a way that feels luxurious and spacious.”

    - Julie Cabezas, Copy Crimes

  • “I was overworked, worn out and thinking I should throw in the towel and retire. Nadine and Derek saw a vision for me that I couldn’t. With their help, I took the most vacation time ever and had the highest revenue year in my business. My business is no longer running my life.”

    - Rachelle Lee, Einblau & Associates

  • “I now have more freedom and spaciousness than ever before, and my profits continue to increase. I rarely work after hours and have more time with my family. Every penny I spent on coaching with Nadine and Derek was 100% worth it.”

    - Jen Zagorsky, Bright HQ

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Ascend Leadership Co. is a premier leadership coaching company dedicated to helping high-performing, high-earning entrepreneurs and founders to become more powerful, productive, and present leaders of their business and life.

Using their signature Five Forces of Ascended Leadership, Nadine and Derek Nicholson help clients break free from the Middle Zone of time stress, guilt, and overworking, so they can drive business growth and create a deeply rewarding life at the same time, without sacrificing one for the other. They live in radical integrity with what matters and prime themselves for their best decade yet. Not someday, NOW.