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About the Company

Our Mission

To close the credibility gap and navigate the sponsorship gap that still exists for women in leadership by equipping them with the strategic, financial, and governance fluency needed to lead at the highest levels while building leverage in environments where advancement is no longer automatic.

We believe women shouldn’t have to fit into outdated leadership models to advance. They deserve frameworks that reflect how power, influence, and trust are built in the real world today, especially as organizational dynamics shift and traditional support structures become less reliable.

Our Vision

A world where women hold influence not because they adapt to the system, but because they help redesign it.

About the Program

Where Senior Women Redefine Leadership

Her Executive Ascent™: Strategic Leadership for Women at the Top was built to accelerate the rise of women ready to lead with greater influence, strategic clarity, and board-level confidence.

This isn’t another leadership course. It’s a 12-week, AI-enabled power accelerator that blends  strategic depth, executive coaching, and real-world application. Designed by and for senior women leaders, Her Executive Ascent™ turns insight into action and experience into enterprise impact.

What We Believe About Today's Leadership Landscape

The path to executive leadership has fundamentally changed. Merit matters, but it's no longer sufficient. Sponsorship is harder to secure. DEI infrastructure that once supported advancement is being quietly dismantled in many organizations. Risk is being pushed downward, and women, particularly women of color, are absorbing more of it.

We don't ignore this reality. We prepare you for it.

Her Executive Ascent™ equips you to read the terrain accurately, position strategically, build leverage before you need it, and make clear-eyed decisions about where to invest your energy and when to protect your options.

What Makes Us Different

Her Executive Ascent™ stands apart through four pillars of transformation:

  1. Strategic depth — rooted in six advanced leadership capabilities that prepare women to operate at enterprise and board levels.

  2. AI-powered personalization — through the Her Executive Ascent™ AI Coach, providing tailored guidance, prompts, and reflections from week one.

  3. Real-world application — each module connects theory to action with assignments, templates, and leadership simulations.

  4. Community and continuity — a curated Member Community and Alumni Network that continues to grow your influence long after the program ends.

About the Founder

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I've spent the past decade driving transformation and leading teams at  Microsoft and Manulife. I've presented to skeptical rooms, led multi-million-dollar digital transformations, developed high-performing teams, and coached dozens of women navigating the invisible thresholds between management and senior leadership.

Her Executive Ascent™ is the program I wish had existed when I was making those moves.

This isn't about fixing women. It's about unlocking what's already there and giving women the structure, support, and visibility they deserve.

Lori Lalonde
Founder, & Executive Coach

 

Lori Lalonde spent three decades in the tech industry with the past decade leading large-scale digital transformation and cloud innovation programs. Having coached, mentored, and developed high-performing teams across industries, she saw a consistent gap: women were being developed for management, not for power.

Her Executive Ascent Inc. was born from that insight, to help women strengthen strategic thinking, navigate organizational power, and lead the conversations that shape the future of business.

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Join the Ascent

Her Executive Ascent™ is more than a program. It’s a movement to equip senior women in leadership with the insight, network, and strategic authority to lead at scale.

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