Ascent Partners with True
We are thrilled to announce our strategic partnership with True, a unique talent platform that has quickly become one of the world's top executive search and talent firms. Ascent is partnering with True to introduce True View - details are below. Reach out to learn more!
- Kevin, Steve, Tiffany, Ziva
BOSTON, MA – March 25, 2025 — Ascent Leadership Networks, LLC, a leading strategic advisory firm and provider of executive assessment and development solutions, today announced a new strategic partnership with True, a unique tech and data-first global executive talent platform. Ascent is renowned for its uniquely transformative fellowship programs, which combine world-class assessment methodologies, immersive learning experiences with top global faculty in once-in-a-lifetime venues, and mentorship opportunities. As part of this new alliance, Ascent is partnering with True to introduce True View, a comprehensive flagship suite of assessments that aggregates multiple tools and data sets to provide the most dynamic, actionable talent insights.
“With this partnership between True Advisory and Ascent, clients have a trusted partner to help with their most complex talent decisions,” said Joe Riggione, co-CEO of True. “From candidate selection and succession planning to company transitions and optimizing performance, our experts invest time to understand the business and remove the guesswork in building an exceptional leadership team.”
“We’re honored to partner with True, a rising star in the search industry whose rapid growth and underlying technologies are very impressive,” said Steve Kelner, President and Co-Founder of Ascent Leadership Networks.
True's entrepreneurial spirit and data-driven capabilities will be an ideal complement to Ascent's proprietary assessment, development, and learning solutions. The Ascent team looks forward to leveraging True View to jointly provide an even greater range of insights and high-caliber experiences both companies' clients are accustomed to. “True View’s combination of deep rigor, cutting edge automation, and flexible, modular architecture offers an opportunity to provide companies with even more predictive candidate assessments, effective executive team benchmarking, and impactful group development programs” added Kevin Steinberg, Chairman & Founder of Ascent.
ABOUT ASCENT
Ascent Leadership Networks, is a strategic advisory firm that develops both individual leaders and organizations to shape the future. Ascent’s leadership development approach is uniquely transformative, combining in-depth, experiential executive learning with proprietary, world-class assessment methodologies. Through our products and services, such as assessments, custom programs, executive fellowships, coaching, and strategy & talent consulting, we help top leaders and organizations achieve meaningful impact.
ABOUT TRUE
True is a global talent management platform renowned for executive search excellence. The sixth largest in its industry, True leverages 10+ years of industry data, market insights, and talent lifecycle expertise to help companies make high-impact talent decisions quickly. Products and services include True Search (retained executive search), TrueBridge (advisory, interim, and fractional executive placement), Thrive (Talent CRM software), True Advance (coaching and assessment), SearchEssentials (tech-enabled hiring services), and AboveBoard (inclusive executive community). True also backs promising companies through investment brands True Equity and Vera Equity.
Tiffany West / Managing Director, Marketing
tiffany@ascent.net
Jillian Ruggieri / Senior Lead, Communications
jillian.ruggieri@trueplatform.com
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