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Meet Anne Basham
Human skills.
Lasting impact.
Anne brings experience in Congress, professional advocacy and executive leadership to the conversations that move ideas into action.
Anne Basham has spent more than a decade inside the rooms where power actually moves, from Capitol Hill to international legislatures to corporate boardrooms. She is a CEO and founder of Ascend Consulting DC and the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking, a Capitol Hill alum, an international legislative convener, a former Executive branch agency leader, and a 2025 and 2026 Top Lobbyist.
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Success skills AI can’t replace.
Explore the human side of influence: connection and asking successfully for what you want.
As AI replaces the capabilities that once guaranteed success, this field guide—drawn from the highest-stakes influence laboratory in the world, Washington, DC—arms you with skills no machine can replace: the power to connect, influence, and ask for what you want at work and in life—and get it.
Your first move
The Power Ask Formula
A free guide and worksheet based on Chapter six to ask for what you want – and get it.
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