The former Fortune 500 executive built the kind of career most people chase for a lifetime. Now she’s asking accomplished leaders a harder question through her new program, Beyond Success™. Once you’ve hit every number, how do you measure what really matters?
Picture the leader who has everything on paper. The title. The comp package. The corner office, or the calendar so full it might as well be one. By every conventional measure, they’ve made it. So why does something still feel off?
It’s a scenario leadership coach Lisa L. Baker has watched play out for more than two decades, first from inside the C-suite at companies like Citigroup, Microsoft, and Synchrony, and now from the other side of the table as an executive coach. Her answer to that quiet unease is Beyond Success™, a 12-week program at LeadBoldlyWithLisa.com, built for leaders who’ve succeeded at the game everyone told them to play and are finally ready to ask if it’s the one they actually wanted.
“‘Should’ is always someone else’s agenda for your life,” Baker said. “Leaders often build very successful careers only to find themselves dissatisfied because they never stopped to ask what they truly wanted.”
Redefining the Ledger
Financial net worth gets tracked obsessively: net income, portfolio growth, equity, exit value. But Baker points to a different kind of ledger, one where the entries are harder to quantify and easier to ignore. Do you actually like the life your success bought you? Are you leading in a way that reflects who you are, or who you learned to be in order to get ahead?
Through her firm, Ascentim®, Baker has spent years helping leaders and their teams close that gap, sharpening how they think, connect, decide, and lead under pressure. Beyond Success™ takes the work further, built specifically for high-achievers whose next move isn’t about climbing higher. It’s about figuring out what they’re actually climbing toward.
The Three-Part Framework
Reclaim Yourself. Redefine Success. Rise to Your Greatness. That’s the framework behind Beyond Success™, and it plays out in three moves.
Reclaim Yourself: Strip away the “shoulds” that quietly wrote the script, and find out who’s underneath them.
Redefine Success: Trade someone else’s scoreboard for one you actually chose.
Rise to Your Greatness: Locate the intersection of what you’re good at, what you care about, and what you’re for, and start leading from there instead of around it.
It’s not a program about doing more. The focus is on examining what has already been built and whether it still serves the person who built it.
Inside the Cohort
Beyond Success™ runs as a 12-week virtual cohort, deliberately capped at 12 participants. It’s a small enough room that leaders can’t coast on polished answers or performance-review talking points. The program is structured so that participants unpack the patterns and expectations that have quietly driven their choices, get honest about what they actually want, work toward identifying their Area of Greatness™, and develop a plan for acting on it rather than a set of insights to file away.
The intimacy is the point. Baker designed the cohort to give accomplished leaders room for the kind of conversation their calendars usually don’t allow. And because it’s capped at 12 seats, Beyond Success™ isn’t designed to scale wide. It’s designed to go deep. Information about the cohort and how leaders can join is available on the Beyond Success™ program site.
About Lisa L. Baker
Lisa L. Baker is the founder of Ascentim®, an award-winning leadership development firm that works with leaders and their teams to strengthen how they lead, make decisions, and operate in high-pressure environments. A former Fortune 500 executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience at organizations including Citigroup, Microsoft, and Synchrony, Baker now works with senior leaders across industries, helping them move beyond external expectations and operate in greater alignment with their strengths, values, and purpose.
Baker is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council and has been featured in Forbes, CEO Weekly, NY Weekly, The Chicago Journal, San Francisco Post, and other publications. She is a two-time Inc. Best in Business award recipient (2022 and 2023) for coaching and career development, and a Globee® Woman-Owned Startup of the Year honoree.
Company / Website: Ascentim®, ascentim.com
Beyond Success™: LeadBoldlyWithLisa.com
Location: Baltimore, MD
