Operations & Performance

Operational Assessments

Operational Assessments

Our Comprehensive Operational Assessment will provide real insight into the inner workings of your company from a Construction Business Expert’s perspective.
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Operational Excellence

Operational Excellence

Construction companies that have grown organically often become more disorganized as people are added.
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Project Management

Project Management

For construction companies, effective project management is essential for every successful project.
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Strategic Business Planning

Strategic Business Planning

Strategic Business Planning is a series of logical and creative steps to identify the long-term business objectives ranked by importance.
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Estimating & Preconstruction

Estimating & Preconstruction

Your ability to accurately predict the cost of a project is paramount to the success of your business.
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Finance, Succession, Exit Strategies & Acquisitions

Finance, Succession, Exit Strategies & Acquisitions

Whether you’re looking to improve your current financial position, closing your doors, selling your business, or handing it to your heirs, it’s in everyone’s best interest to have a solid financial strategy in place.
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Procore®

Procore®

We have extensive experience with Procore ®, and can help you maximize your investment in the shortest amount of time.
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Construction Software & Technology

Construction Software & Technology

Operating your business with yesterday’s technology solutions limits your ability to make sound decisions at both the project and corporate levels and creates inefficiencies that cost you time and money.
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Talent Acquisition & Employee Retention

Talent Acquisition & Employee Retention

Talent acquisition strategies help construction companies to find, hire, and retain the workers they need to maintain and grow their business. Whether it's determining what positions you need to fill or developing a more effective sourcing strategy, putting the right talent plans in place is crucial for every business.
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Incentive Programs

Incentive Programs

Finding ways to motivate employees and ensuring your culture is driving the correct behaviors in the workplace are some of the most complex challenges for construction companies.
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Zachary Hickman

Project Coordinator

Zachary brings 10+ years of project management experience as an owners representative for clients and from the developer side of the business.

He began his career as an assistant project manager with a masonry subcontractor in Florida, before moving to Atlanta.

Daphene Koch

Consultant

Daphene’s construction experience began working in her family’s mechanical construction company.

Next, she worked for a large EPC firm on projects in Texas and Malaysia. With over 15 years of construction industry experience on commercial and industrial projects. Her roles have included project manager, safety manager, construction services leader, and pipefitters helper.

While a professor at Purdue University in the School of Construction Management, she worked as a consultant to help construction companies improve processes, project management, workforce development to name a few. She has a BS, MS, and PhD from Purdue University and resides in Indiana.

Hakeem Slaughter

Marketing Coordinator

Hakeem is a brand designer with over 10 years of experience. He has been a freelancer for about 9 years working with many different clients and industries under the following subjects: brand design, graphic design, web design, and social media marketing.

 

During that time freelancing, he also worked at many companies as a graphic and web designer. As well as taught disciplines of Art and Design to students varying from middle school age to college. As mentioned, he has a “jack of all trades” range but is quite proficient at WordPress and uses that knowledge to design cutting edge websites!

 

Hakeem specializes in branding, design, and creativity and is bringing his talents, skills, and passion to take Ascent Consulting to a new level!

Aimee Collier

Project Coordinator

Aimee joins Ascent as a Project Coordinator supporting our Senior and Procore Consultants. With construction industry experience both in-field and back-of-house (ranging from project site coordination to contract management to software administration), she brings a holistic perspective of the day-to-day challenges faced by our clients. Her varied professional roles include software implementation and training, technical content creation and design, and coordinating across teams to bring projects to successful completion. She is excited to direct her passion for people and processes toward our customers.