Meet The Ascent Team
Terri Wilber, CHt
Alignment Strategist
Founder & CEO of Ascent Training & Consulting, LLC
Terri Wilber partners with companies to lean into their most valuable resource – their humans - bringing an evidence-based, results-oriented approach to complex interpersonal and organizational challenges. Terri is a seasoned expert in human behavior, communication, and high-stakes conflict resolution — uniquely positioned at the intersection of neuroscience, strategic facilitation, and organizational effectiveness. With board certifications as a Trainer and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), as well as mastery in mental and emotional release and hypnotherapy.
Before building Ascent Training & Consulting, Terri served as a 911 dispatcher — a role that required real-time crisis assessment, emotional containment, and precise communication under pressure. This foundational experience honed her ability to remain neutral, regulate high-intensity interactions, and extract critical insights in moments of uncertainty — qualities that now anchor her conflict facilitation work with leaders and teams in corporate and organizational environments.
As an Alignment Strategist, Terri works with executive teams to strengthen organizational health by aligning leadership paradigms with strategic outcomes. She collaborates with organizational leadership to uncover unconscious patterns, mitigate escalation, and redesign communication systems that support robust decision-making and long-term performance. Her work moves beyond surface-level negotiation to address underlying beliefs, relational dynamics, and systemic patterns — enabling sustainable solutions preserving trust, accountability, and equity.
Terri’s methodology draws on advanced NLP, behavioral neuroscience, and structured mediation frameworks to reduce friction, de-escalate polarized narratives, and co-create outcomes that are ecologically viable for all parties involved. She is known for her ability to hold space with impartiality, guide divergent perspectives to shared clarity, and translate human complexity into practical action.
In addition to her corporate consulting and conflict resolution work, Terri is respected nationally for her communication training and leadership development programs, which empower individuals and teams to rewire limiting patterns and elevate performance. Based in the Colorado foothills, she leads Ascent with a commitment to integrity, psychological safety, and results that endure.
Sean Marshall
Trainer & Transformational Coach
Discovering Truth. . . the truth within. Ever wonder why life patterns are repeated, or why certain lessons keep occurring? Sean helps people discover what is within but unseen. Using Archetypes and Neuro Linguistics, Sean allows clients to discover what is unseen and blocked at the unconscious level. Using both the left brain and right brain my clients feel affirmed, connected and congruent on their path.
As a certified Integrative NLP Coach, Sean bridges neuroscience with the more esoteric paths of self-discovery. He works with both the conscious and unconscious mind, drawing from NLP, Jungian psychology, and Huna to help clients uncover what’s true for them. This integrated approach consistently leads to deeper fulfillment in career, relationships, and overall well-being.
Sean is a loving husband and father to two adult children. He enjoys travel, golf, and lifelong learning.
Strategic Partnership
When organizational challenges appear interpersonal but may have deeper systemic roots, Ascent partners with Gabby Richardson from The Nexus Impact to examine the conditions shaping behavior.
The Nexus Impact helps leaders determine whether their organizational systems are reinforcing - or undermining - the ownership, collaboration, accountability, and initiative they expect from their people.
By bringing together Ascent’s expertise in human dynamics with The Nexus Impact’s focus on where human potential meets organizational performance, we help leaders distinguish between a people problem and a system problem, and identify where small shifts in organizational conditions can unlock stronger performance.