Driving Performance with Brain Science

Maximise the performance of your people, teams, and organisation with our tailored development programmes that are led by contemporary brain science.

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Learning and development that achieves results

For more than 25 years, we've been helping organisations upskill their people and accelerate their development. Using a combination of contemporary brain science and expert insight to design and deliver bespoke programmes that ensure a measurable return on investment.

“Contemporary learning and development best-practice is vibrant, varied, challenging, thought-provoking and personally supportive. We understand and utilise blended approaches to maximise the impact of programmes”.

David Sales, Director at First Ascent

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Unlocking Success: The Power of Psychometric Assessments
Understanding your own and others’ thinking and behaviour preferences is a powerful advantage for organisations.

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Success stories
We've helped all kinds of organisations to learn and transform.
Sika UK
Apprenticeship Development Programme
After conducting an in-depth needs analysis in consultation with key stakeholders, First Ascent designed a programme to create experiential exercises, bringing to life theories, models and concepts to help embed learning.

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... It is very impressive to see how First Ascent can design and deliver relevant content and learning experiences. I was delighted with the level of openness and contributions generated by the cohort who have built some solid cross functional relationships over the duration of the programme...

Head of Apprentice Development
Sika UK

Santander
Connecting leaders with Santander’s values and behaviours
Santander's Development Programme, featuring the Emergenetics Profile, was developed to unify the organisation's culture through a common language aligned with its values. Initially tested with leaders, it quickly expanded across the company, reaching 2500 colleagues. Internal staff were trained to deliver the Programme and its success has led to ongoing demand.

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The training was received really positively by the team. They found it enjoyable, informative, thought provoking and all agreed it was one of the most effective and actionable courses they had experienced.

Function Director
Santander

Wesleyan Assurance Society
Case Study
This case study demonstrates how a 47% improvement in return was achieved by utilising Emergenetics in business planning. Insights provided by the Emergenetics psychometric profiling into the individual thinking and behavioural preferences of team members, allowed the power of cognitive diversity of thought and behaviours to be fully utilised. Maximum advantage was gained from looking at the challenge in a focused way and from different perspectives, resulting in a more effective solution.

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Emergenetics was definitely a contributing factor to how successful the plan was; this is illustrated by comparing the results from the two teams.

Emma Duff Talent & Leadership Development Manager
Wesleyan Assurance Society

AstraZeneca
Apprenticeship Programme - Personal Development

First Ascent developed two high-impact Personal Development modules to support the comprehensive apprenticeship programme provided by AstraZeneca.

The project included a seamless conversion to online delivery during the pandemic.

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...The learning from these modules have proved to be a key support to all our new apprentices as they make the transition from education into the workplace...

Tracey Hoey, UK Apprentice Programme Partner
AstraZeneca

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