Build self-aware leaders and managers.
Strengthen teams.
Create a culture where people thrive

We help organisations develop self-aware leaders, managers, connected teams and healthier workplace cultures through practical consulting, interactive training and coaching grounded in Insights Discovery, leadership development and evidence-informed wellbeing practice.

People are better able to think, communicate, collaborate and contribute when they feel safe, supported and understood. When pressure is poorly managed, communication narrows, relationships strain and performance suffers.

Workplace wellbeing is not a separate initiative sitting at the edge of organisational life. It is shaped every day by workload, relationships, role clarity, change and the way people are led.

Ascent People Development helps businesses move beyond reactive wellbeing initiatives to build cultures that genuinely support people. Our approach integrates:

Lasting change does not come from a one-off wellbeing initiative. It begins by helping people understand themselves, their relationships and the way they respond under pressure.

Ascent People Development brings together three complementary areas of practice:

It’s remarkable that understanding personality dates back to the Ancient Greeks and namely the “Father of Medicine” Hippocrates. He was the first to notice the four personality types 2500 years ago. Hippocrates believed that people needed a balance of four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile) to be healthy and maintain temperament. An imbalance between these boldly fluids manifested in different behaviours and illnesses so treatments aimed to restore the balance of these fluids.

The original ideas of the Ancient Greeks have been explored and worked on by various philosophers and doctors over the centuries. Carl Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychologist whose work was based on the original ideas of the Ancient Greeks. Insights Discovery® is based on Jungian psychology and uses colour and elements to symbolise behaviours. We all have a preferred order of using these colours but remember, each of us has the capacity for 100% of each of the four colours. Our energy changes form, depending on the situation we are in, or who we are communicating with. The colour energies offer an easy way of understanding how you show up to other people, and how you can adapt your behaviour to meet the needs of different people.

Many managers are promoted because they are technically capable, experienced or simply next in line. They then find themselves responsible for performance, conflict, change and employee wellbeing without having been given a clear framework for leading people.

When managers are uncertain about their style or lack confidence in difficult conversations, teams feel the effect. Expectations become inconsistent, relationships become strained and psychological safety can decline.

The Liberator provides leaders and managers with a practical track to run on. Developed from more than 25 years of research by Dr Derek Biddle, it identifies the behaviours that distinguish consistently effective leadership.

At its heart is the mindset of High Challenge–High Support: establishing clarity and accountability while offering the understanding, encouragement and support people need to succeed.

Effective teams are built on more than good intentions. They need trust, clarity and the ability to communicate well — particularly when priorities compete, pressure increases or different working styles collide.

We help teams understand how they work together, recognise the impact they have on one another and have more constructive conversations. By developing greater self-awareness and shared understanding, teams can reduce friction, strengthen relationships and work with greater confidence and purpose.

Suzanne combines extensive experience in leadership and management development with accredited Insights Discovery practice, The Liberator leadership framework and trauma-informed nervous-system education.

Her approach is practical, compassionate and grounded in both professional expertise and lived experience of stress and recovery.

This enables her to work beyond surface-level development—helping people understand themselves, recognise what others need and apply that insight to the real challenges of organisational life.

Our work brings together established development tools, practical leadership frameworks and trauma-informed wellbeing education. Each element provides a different lens; together, they help people understand themselves, support others and create healthier environments.