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How Power Moves

Success skills AI can’t replace

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Cover of How Power Moves: Success Skills AI Can’t Replace by Anne Elizabeth Basham. The front shows the U.S. Capitol and the Grant Memorial.

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  • Power moves you can use. Connection, timing, and trust — the practical side of moving policy in Washington.
  • Skills that stay human. How to read a room, earn trust before you need it, and turn a no into a yes.
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About the author

Anne Elizabeth Basham

Founder & CEO, Ascend Consulting

Anne Elizabeth Basham is a former U.S. Senate staffer and the founder and CEO of Ascend Consulting. A former Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Justice, she advised on the direction of more than $2 billion in federal funding. Named a Top Lobbyist by the National Institute for Lobbying and Ethics, she has testified before Congress and founded the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking with lawmakers from more than thirty nations.

How Power Moves: Success Skills AI Can’t Replace is her book and the newsletter for leaders who have to move a room, a coalition, or a vote.

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