Emotional Hangovers: My Own Mental Struggle as a Founder
Ascension Associates
October 01, 2024
We were just about to roll out and in process of getting ready to discuss a big contract in 2019. Mass protests took place on Jun 2nd and the rest became history. Though the downtime did allow for a six-month journey of discovering who I really am, what do I really want, and what do I want to get out of my team. Then I discovered, like most of us, I got imposter syndrome.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Future of Work
Bring Out the Calmest in Me - Managing Anxiety from Leighton Green
Ascension Associates
October 01, 2024
A few years back while working as a trainer teaching organisations how to better manage aggressive behaviours in the workplace, I met a participant who from the get-go presented as passive aggressive and oppositional to the material being taught.
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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Mental Health
Career Pivot. Body Image - How my decision to become a strengths coach redefines my identity
Ascension Associates
October 01, 2024
As I told some of my fans and followers a few months ago, this article is going to be a raw and deeply personal one. It is a long one, but I promise you it’s a highly relatable article, and as usual it touches on several topics.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Future of Work
Founders – Give Yourself Some Space: Journey through social unrest, Covid-19; domestic troubles and
Ascension Associates
October 01, 2024
I have just celebrated my 35th birthday and soon my company’s public showcase 3 years anniversary next month. It’s been a roller-coaster ride, and thought this would be a great time to reflect, and to resonate with my people on various important a-ha moments in my entrepreneurial journey: that eventually I realized I needed to give myself space to think the opposite in order to crack it.
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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Mental Health
Are You Ready To Receive? Counting Blessings in a Journey of Growth
Ascension Associates
July 16, 2022
When I told people about my concept of setting up Ascension Associates, I had my peeps immediately said yes and my network referring me associates. Of course for the last 4 years lots have happened, both people and situations have changed. Although I am not a religious person I am pretty spiritual, and like most of people said God will never give you more than you can bear.
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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Mental Health
Career Pivot. Body Image - How my decision to become a strengths coach redefines my identity as a woman, and transforms everyone around me.
LinkedIn
June 27, 2022
As I told some of my fans and followers a few months ago, this article is going to be a raw and deeply personal one. It is a long one, but I promise you it’s a highly relatable article, and as usual it touches on several topics.
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Tags: Leadership
We have talked to over 150 senior distribution professionals across the region, and here’s what we found:
LinkedIn
February 24, 2022
As some of you might know already, I focus on life insurance distribution search across agency, bancassurance, employee benefits, sometimes brokerage and HNW distribution. Most of the time I work with regional offices rather than local operations, and lately digital partnership has unsurprisingly become the topic of the day
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Tags: Leadership
Women. Leadership. Our Spouses: A topic which should be discussed more often
Ascension Associates
January 12, 2022
After receiving much attention on my recent post about Chanel appointing the first female CEO, and having discussions recently with my mentor/ friend/ ex-client Fazlyn Malek, I do think it’s time for us to highlight the importance of personal spouse when we discuss female leadership. (Didn’t you just imply in your last post that we shouldn’t use the term female CEO anymore? Why use this term now Larraine? You will find out why after reading this article)
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Tags: Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Future of Work
Ascension Associates
Ascension Associates
July 01, 2018
After spending close to 10 years in executive search, our founder Larraine often saw the alignment gap between business strategy and talent acquisition, and this prompted her to set up Ascension Associates to solve business problems with a bigger dimension. Since 2018, we have delivered regional executive search assignments, global people management program training for luxury retail, leadership workshops for corporate clients and 1:1 executive coaching sessions.
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Be Brave At Work - Podcast Guesting with Ed Evarts
Ascension Associates
October 01, 2024
Welcome to be brave at work, a podcast devoted to helping you take the next step in your workplace. Each week we'll be talking with real people with real stories about things that have not been said or done or have said or done in their workplace that required bravery. Let's get started. Hi, everyone. This is Ed Everts, and I'm the founder and president of Accelerace leadership development. Welcome to be brave at work a podcast devoted to helping you take the next step in your workplace. I hope you'll listen to our past podcast conversations and if you'd like to hear past episodes, go to be brave@work.com. Subscribe to our podcasts and learn some valuable lessons about bravery at work. (skipped to introducing the guest) I'm really excited to introduce on be brave at work today. A great guest working in multiple recruitment startups.
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Successful Careers are by Design not by Accident: How the decisions you make today
Ascension Associates
October 01, 2024
Our Very First Podcast Guesting on Career, Hiring, Women Leadership and everything in between.
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Talent Acquisition, Business Strategies with Wellbeing in Leadership
Ascension Associates
September 19, 2022
I spoke with Larraine Chang, Founder & CEO of Ascension Associates. We discussed talent acquisition, strategy, organizational design, and more
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Impostor Syndrome? Linear Thinking?
Ascension Associates
December 02, 2022
This is a podcast from BFM 89. 9, the business station. This is raise your game. I'm Christine Wong. Oftentimes, as leader, it's not just the physical or the physical obstacles that you have to jump over. A lot of the times, the problem is also kind of in your head. So here with me today is Larraine Chang, founder and CEO of Ascension Associates. To discuss a few mental obstacles viewers regularly encounter and how to deal with that.
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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Mental Health
Work it till You Make it - Interview on Arete Coach Podcast
Ascension Associates
December 02, 2022
In the podcast, we explore Larraine's love of Jazz music, and its parallels to improv and great coaching. We cross-walk through her coaching journey from a recruiter, to consultant, to coach. We explore powerful questions she has used in past coaching sessions. Larraine also comments on the difference in mindsets between 'faking it till you make it,' vs 'work it till you make it.' Larraine describes how 'coaching is helping the person face themselves so that they can find their own solutions.'
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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Mental Health
