{"id":45,"date":"2013-04-05T15:36:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T15:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tatedesign.net\/webprojects\/ascend\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2016-04-06T19:04:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T00:04:14","slug":"our-expertise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/our-expertise\/","title":{"rendered":"About Marjorie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-832\" src=\"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Marjorie-Home.jpg\" alt=\"Marjorie Johnson\" width=\"194\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Marjorie-Home.jpg 216w, https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Marjorie-Home-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>Marjorie Johnson is President of Ascend Consulting, Inc. She provides executive and career coaching, training and development, and personal consultation. Marjorie\u2019s 30 years of experience in problem solving and relationship management makes her a powerful consultant to companies. An experienced coach and clinician and an expert in human behavior, Marjorie empowers individuals and organizations to improve leadership, communication, and work-life balance. Marjorie\u2019s clients make their personal and professional goals a reality through greater applied emotional intelligence, decision making, and practical action strategies with accountability to achieve their highest potential.<\/p>\n<p>Her perceptive assessment and customized design of training and development programs boosts companies\u2019 bottom-line through inspired leadership. She is a dynamic, highly sought-after motivational speaker and trainer on a range of topics that include leadership development for managers and employees and work-life balance. Topics include: time and stress management, mindful leadership and compelling communication, emotional intelligence, conflict management, parenting, and attention and organization. She has presented for Chester County Hospital, Liberty Property Trust, the Chester County Emergency Services Department, the Chester County Human Resources Department, West Chester University\u2019s Presidents\u2019 Council, and Siemens.<\/p>\n<p>Marjorie is a certified coach and Past President of the Philadelphia chapter of the International Coach Federation. She coaches for Villanova University\u2019s Executive MBA program and is an affiliate executive coach for Right Management. She is also an executive coach with Human Systems, a global executive coaching firm based in London.\u00a0Marjorie is a member of the Chester County Human Resources Association. She serves on the professional advisory board of the local chapter of CHADD, Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder. She served for four years as facilitator and trainer for the Non-Profit Academy of the Exton Region Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1274\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B5_wfs_loB4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1274\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1274\" src=\"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/video-success.jpg\" alt=\"Watch this video to learn about Marjorie\u2019s success stories.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Watch this video to learn about Marjorie\u2019s success stories.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Marjorie was named the \u201c2011 Small Business Person of the Year\u201d by the Exton Region Chamber of Commerce. Her CD, &#8220;Come to the Quiet: Meditation for Relaxation and Healing,&#8221; is applicable to both personal and professional endeavors and is available on Amazon or you can <a title=\"Come to the Quiet:\u2028 Meditation for Relaxation &amp; Healing\" href=\"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/mindfulness-meditation-cd\/\">click here to order!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marjorie Johnson is President of Ascend Consulting, Inc. She provides executive and career coaching, training and development, and personal consultation. Marjorie\u2019s 30 years of experience in problem solving and relationship management makes her a powerful consultant to companies. An experienced coach and clinician and an expert in human behavior, Marjorie empowers individuals and organizations to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}