Felicity Ashley

Felicity equips teams with essential tools to thrive during periods of transformation. Her 20+ year career in UK corporates, plus her experiences as a transatlantic rower and cancer survivor have given her invaluable insights into adapting to and overcoming unexpected challenges. She helps organisations:
– Develop a more positive and adaptable mindset.
– Build resilience in the face of uncertainty.
– Embrace change as an opportunity for growth.

Drawing from her background as a blue-chip marketing leader and her experience in extreme teamwork situations, Felicity offers practical advice on creating dynamic, effective teams. Her approach emphasises:
– Building your support crew.
– Team relationships and dynamics.
– Fostering collaboration, cohesion and open communication.
– Cultivating a winning mindset that drives consistent high performance.

Felicity’s remarkable story of rowing the Atlantic whilst unknowingly battling cancer serves as a powerful metaphor for overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles. She teaches teams how to:
– Adopt a growth mindset.
– Reframe challenges as opportunities.
– Harness individual and team superpowers.
– Build sustainable resilience to tackle challenges.

As a working mother of three who has faced extreme physical and mental challenges, Felicity understands the importance of maintaining wellbeing in high-pressure environments and the mind-body connection. Supporting her belief that health is the foundation of performance, she offers strategies for:
– Encouraging positivity and work-life balance.
– Prioritising health in busy lives.
– Supporting both physical and mental health in the workplace.
– Addressing and preventing burnout.

Whether you’re leading a business on a transformational journey or are managing life outside of work, you’ll encounter obstacles along the way. From regulatory roadblocks to restructure, the challenges can seem insurmountable. You can let them stop you in your tracks or push you off course, or you can embrace them, learn from them and ultimately thrive.
Felicity shares her extraordinary tale of adventure and adversity, the lessons she’s learned to help her thrive, and the tools and techniques that anyone can use to navigate life’s challenges. She talks about the power of mindset, building resilience and building support networks.

To thrive in a competitive business context, organisations need to constantly evolve and set challenging goals. They can feel overwhelming for employees, leading to paralysis rather than progress. To succeed, organisations need to support their people to develop the skills and mindset they need to take on, embrace and smash their goals.
Felicity shares her extraordinary feat of rowing over 3,000 miles across the Atlantic, together with the very different health goal of overcoming cancer, and the tools she has used to make the impossible feel possible. She talks about the power of mindset, embracing fear, breaking down your goals and finding the courage to ask for help.

There is nothing as constant as change. Professionally and personally, it’s hard to avoid change, but it can be disruptive, unsettling and exhausting. Organisations need to help their people to see change as opportunity and provide them with the skills and mindset they need to adapt and thrive through changing times.
Felicity embodies transformation, and using her experiences and journey from marketer, to ocean rower, cancer survivor and now speaker, she inspires and motivates people to embrace, rather than fear change, and seize the opportunities it offers.

Building inclusive, diverse and well-functioning teams is essential for organisations to compete effectively and achieve sustainable success. Businesses face multiple challenges, from creating diversity and fostering a culture of inclusivity, where every voice is heard and different perspectives valued, to ensuring cohesion and collaboration – so the team is greater than the sum of its parts.
Felicity brings together her significant business leadership experience, with her experience of building a high-performing ocean-rowing crew, and shares the lessons she’s learned, as well as practical tools and techniques to build highly effective teams in high-pressure environments.
She talks about the power of a support network, creating alignment as well as building team relationships and dynamics.