You are on mission.You need your people dialed in.
If you’ve got people, you’ve got problems. Reason Talent solves them with data rather than guesswork.
People problems are worth solving
- 75%
- of cross-functional teams fail. They miss budget, schedule, or spec.
- Harvard Business Review, 2015
- $35,879
- is the average cost of hiring one executive, before anyone is wrong.
- SHRM, 2025 Benchmarking Reports
- 20%
- of employees worldwide are engaged at work. The lowest it has been since 2020.
- Gallup, State of the Global Workplace, 2026
We solve these people problems
To execute a strategy you need the right people in the right seats, able and motivated to perform, working in teams that function, inside a culture that keeps it going. Weaken any one of those and the strategy is the thing that slips.
Fix the boundaries the work crosses.
Leadership team sessions, cross-functional work
Almost no performance is truly individual any more. Strategy dies at the handoffs between functions that are each hitting their own targets, and no amount of individual excellence fixes a boundary nobody owns.
See how this work runsWhere the work has been done
- Ascend Talent Solutions
Leadership is hard. It doesn’t have to be.
Decades of psychological science meet AI innovation to give you an easy button for good leadership.
AI-powered talent development
Almost everything on this page, we deliver through Spherikal, our own relational intelligence system.
Engagement data runs through it. Assessments we administer, or ones you already own and upload, are stored and read in it. Goals get set there and followed up there rather than in a spreadsheet nobody reopens. Team sessions are built on the relational read it produces, so a facilitator walks in already knowing where a group is likely to grind.
It is also how the work reaches past the top of the house. Executive coaching is reserved for a handful of people and everyone else gets their manager’s ad hoc feedback and a once-a-year review. Reason Talent is what you bring in for the executive team. Spherikal is how the same rigor reaches the other several hundred leaders.
Let Reason take a look
Describe what is going wrong and we will tell you whether it is something we can fix, including when it is not.