Personality tests promise to tell us who we are. They’re used for fun, for assessing fit to job, to enable organization culture and much more. But do they really work? The answer lies in a different question; what are personality tests really measuring? And what does it take to have a meaningful, reliable test of our ever-changing, evolving selves?

2022 is here, bringing yet another year of pandemic. Or is it the endless endemic? With too many of us just plowing ahead into another year of surviving or simply striving, Ziva (and Arthur Ashe) have some simple questions to help you pause, and take stock.

Are you surviving, striving, or thriving in 2022?

Catching up with Ascent Fellow, Gina Hadley, we talk about leading through - and beyond - COVID, and how the pandemic has changed her work, how she leads, and the way she sees the world. Gina is one of the founders of the Second Shift, named one of the top ten innovative workplace companies by Fast Company.

We all have networks, but are they genuinely serving our needs? Tune in to hear Ascent’s Director of Assessment and Development, Ziva Mann, talk about how networks can unlock learning and support us in being resilient. And especially, how Ascent leverages networks to enable our cohort participants to meet – and sometimes exceed – their mid- to long term goals.