Who We Are

Ascent Management Consulting is a Tucson-based consulting firm with expertise in all aspects of organizational behavior. We are dedicated to the growth and success of businesses through effective management and employee engagement.

What We Do

Ascent Management Consulting utilizes sound organizational behavior principles and models to build bottom-line business success. We follow a simple, but effective process to ensure that client needs are met and results obtained.

1. We begin by working with clients to determine critical business issues to address, including productivity, cost, quality, efficiency, etc. 
   
2. We assess how our expertise can be used to address the client’s business needs.
   
3. We collaborate with the client to design and implement solutions to achieve results. Building on the client’s knowledge of the business we use our expertise in human systems to produce outstanding results.

Our Point Of View

We approach engagements with a focus on bottom-line business issues and measurable results. We also undertake every issue with the objective of building the client’s capacity to apply our technology without dependency on the consultant. Our satisfaction guarantee will ensure you obtain the value you seek from our services, and that you are confident facing the future. We also believe that businesses successful in today’s marketplace must manage in a way to enable the maximum contribution of employees. All of our interventions support developing this kind of organization. We essentially offer five distinguishing features in our consulting:

• A focus on bottom-line results
  
• Client capacity to sustain results
  
• Enhanced employee opportunity to be engaged for business success
  
• Collaboration with client on solutions and implementation 
  
• A promise of results backed by a guarantee

Biography

Kevin Herring, President of Ascent Management Consulting, has over 20 years of education and experience in the field of Organizational Behavior. Kevin has worked as a manager and consultant in the manufacturing, mining, service, and utility industries. He has managed Human Resources, Organization Development, and Training departments for Baker Hughes, Inc., Magma Copper Company, BHP Copper, Inc., and Unisource Energy. He has worked with organizations of various sizes from sole proprietors to Fortune 200 companies. Kevin has experience in all aspects of human resource management and organization development. He holds an MA degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of Illinois and a BA degree from the University of Minnesota where he studied Industrial/Organization Psychology and Japanese. His certifications include, among others, MBTI, DDI, and Achieve Global (including Zenger-Miller and Kaset). Kevin is also allied with Henning-Showkeir & Associates to bring Consulting Skills, Conversations, and related distributive workplace offerings to results-oriented organizations.