Navigate your Career with Clarity and Confidence
Structured coaching and transition support for professionals navigating career growth, redundancy, and leadership change.
Build a career aligned with your goals, values, and long term aspirations with the strategy and support to move forward confidently.
Our Services
Structured 1:1 Career Coaching support for career growth and transition
Every career transition looks different. Some people are navigating redundancy. Others are rethinking what success looks like, exploring new opportunities, or trying to move towards work that better aligns with their values, lifestyle, and long-term goals.
The Ascend Foundation offers structured 1:1 career coaching sessions designed to help you navigate those moments with greater clarity, confidence, and direction.
Rather than offering rigid, one-size-fits-all programmes, coaching is tailored to your individual situation, priorities, and professional goals — creating space for honest conversations, practical strategy, and meaningful progress.
What we support Client With
Career Direction
Gain clarity on your next steps and build a career path aligned with your goals, strengths, and long-term ambitions.
Interview Preparation
Prepare with greater confidence through structured interview support, and practical feedback,
Confidence
Develop the mindset and self-belief needed to navigate career change, uncertainty, and new opportunities.
Job Search Strategy
Build a more focused and intentional approach to your job search with positioning and outreach strategies.
Built on lived experience, not just expertise
For years, I focused on building a successful career in engineering and leadership earning my MEng (Hons) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, becoming a Chartered Engineer, and leading teams within technology organisations.
Along the way, I experienced redundancy personally and later found myself supporting engineering teams through restructures and organisational change myself. Sitting on both sides of those conversations completely changed how I viewed career development and transition support.
I realised that most people are given very little meaningful guidance during some of the most uncertain moments in their careers. Too often, the focus is only on finding the next role quickly, rather than helping people navigate change with clarity, confidence, and a deeper understanding of what they actually want from their work and life.
That experience is what led me to create The Ascend Foundation.
My approach combines leadership experience, structured coaching, and practical career strategy with something I believe is often missing from professional development conversations: humanity.
Because career growth should not come at the expense of fulfilment, wellbeing, or the life you want to build outside of work.
I built this because I know how overwhelming career transitions can feel and how powerful the right support can be during those moments.”
— Phillipa Rodney
Career transitions deserve more than generic advice
The Ascend Foundation was built on the belief that career transitions should be approached with structure, clarity, and humanity not uncertainty.
Every framework, coaching session, and resource is designed to help individuals and organisations navigate change intentionally, not reactively.
What Client Say
Working with Phillipa helped me approach my career transition with far more clarity and confidence than I had before. Every session felt thoughtful, practical, and genuinely supportive
— Sarah Allwell
“The coaching process helped me stop approaching my career from a place of panic and start making decisions that actually aligned with my long-term goals.”
— Mia Rodriguez
“I left every session feeling clearer, more prepared, and more confident in the direction I was moving towards.”
— John Sanders
Our Experience
| 6+ Years Leadership Experience | Chartered Engineer (CEng) | Featured Speaker at LDX3 | Career Transition Frameworks |
Meaningful career support creates measurable impact.
The right coaching and transition support can improve confidence, decision-making, and long-term career direction especially during periods of uncertainty and change.