Ascent Strategy Group

Ascent Strategy Group is the first public relations agency built to power healthcare's digital transformation. Founded by John Digles, an award-winning CMO and healthtech marketing and communications pioneer, ASG is home to a team of proficient practitioners who have reinvented the agency model to serve a new era of healthcare. Our mission is to advance health equity. ASG is evolving disciplines at the zeitgeist of healthcare transformation ignition points to support global brands, pioneering startups, digital health services, medical devices, wearables, research hubs, life sciences, and food-as-medicine ventures. We work at the intersection of innovaton, regulation and reputation. Clients gain access to our full suite of services, including reinvention, reputation management, culture tapping, storytelling, thought leadership, marketing communications, social media, influencer marketing, research, creative, and digital marketing. Our skilled strategists and writers are shaping dynamic brand narratives, fostering connections across medical professional and patient audiences, and developing the first communications protocols for health AI. ASG clients get the industry's top subject matter expertise, collaboration with key opinion leaders, and measurable return-on-investment. We deliver big ideas and results while optimizing client budgets. ASG developed and introduced the first marketing and communications tools in the public relations industry to guide healthcare's transformation. Our Digital Health IQ tool leverages a proprietary AI-supported communications algorithm that gauges medical professional perspectives and patient insights with clinical research to promote adoption of AI, telemedicine, remote patient monitoring, quantum computing, medical robotics, and other offerings. We think differently, listen actively, and compete relentlessly.