Workforce Transition and Outplacement Support for Organisations
We help organisations manage redundancies, restructures, and workforce transitions with dignity protecting employees, leaders, and employer brand while reducing operational disruption.
Built from lived experience on both sides of organisational change and backed by evidence-based career transition frameworks.
Workforce transitions are more expensive than most organisations realise
When redundancies and restructures are handled without structured support, the impact often extends far beyond the transition itself affecting morale, productivity, retention, and long-term organisational trust.
Loss of Trust
Workforce changes handled poorly can reduce employee trust in leadership and organisational direction.
Reduced Productivity
Remaining teams often experience lower morale, disengagement, and operational disruption after restructures.
Employer Brand Impact
How organisations manage transitions directly shapes long-term reputation, retention, and future hiring trust.
Without structured transition support, organisations often experience 3–6 months of operational disruption following workforce change.
Outplacement and workforce transition support designed for real organisational impact
Delivered through The Resilient Transition Model™, our approach helps departing employees navigate career transition with greater clarity, confidence, and direction while helping organisations protect culture, morale, and employer brand.
Career repositioning
Transition confidence support
Structured employee guidance
Faster career transition outcomes
Departing employees leave as brand advocates not disengaged former staff.
Structured outplacement and workforce transition support
The Ascend Foundation provides structured support for organisations navigating change through a combination of coaching, leadership guidance, and employee transition programmes.
Outplacement Support Programme
A structured career transition model designed to support departing employees with clarity, direction, and confidence.
Delivered through The Resilient Transition Model™, this programme helps employees:
Departing employees leave as brand advocates not disengaged former staff.
How workforce transitions are handled directly affects organisational stability
Poorly managed transitions affect far more than operational structure. They influence morale, trust, productivity, retention, and long-term employer brand perception.
Why organisations choose “The Ascend Foundation”
The Ascend Foundation was founded by Phillipa Rodney after experiencing redundancy firsthand and later leading engineering teams through organisational restructuring.
This dual perspective employee and leader shapes every programme we design.
Phillipa is:
Chartered Engineer
Career & Leadership Coach
Engineering Leader with 6+ years of people management experience
Featured speaker at LDX3 (UK’s leading leadership development conference)
This combination of technical leadership, coaching expertise, and lived experience creates a grounded, practical approach to workforce transitions.