Felicity Ashley

Felicity Ashley – Inspirational Speaker – Mindset Over Matter

Felicity Ashley is a powerful, relatable and inspirational speaker who draws on her extensive business experience as well as her extraordinary personal journey to help organisations, leaders and teams transform their mindsets, increase their resilience and tackle their toughest challenges head-on. Her unique approach focuses on the power of “Mindset over Matter”, providing actionable strategies for navigating change, building high-performing teams, overcoming challenges, and promoting wellbeing.

“Mindset over Matter” isn’t just a catchy phrase – it’s a philosophy that can guide us through life’s most daunting challenges and has enabled Felicity to not just survive, but thrive through the storms she’s faced, from rowing across the Atlantic Ocean, to overcoming cancer.

Felicity stands out as a speaker due to her compelling combination of business acumen and remarkable personal experiences. Her 20-year career leading blue-chip marketing teams provides her with a deep understanding of organisational challenges, whilst her incredible feat of rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic with undiagnosed cancer makes her story truly inspirational.

As a working mother of three, Felicity understands the juggling act that many professionals face daily. Her story isn’t just about personal triumph. It’s about showing that extraordinary feats are within the grasp of “ordinary” individuals, and that we are all capable of so much more than we think.

Felicity’s ability to captivate an audience and inspire lasting change has made her a sought-after voice with high-profile organisations, including Barclays, Aston Martin, Centrica, Baringa, GSK and Ofcom. Her versatility as a speaker allows her to deliver impactful keynotes, fireside chats, lunch-and-learn sessions as well as workshops.

Her remarkable journey and insights have also captured significant media attention, including appearances on Lorraine, BBC South, BBC Sport, and features in The Telegraph.

Are you ready to inspire your teams to embrace change, overcome challenges, and smash their goals? Contact us to discuss how Felicity can work with you to unlock your team’s full potential and drive your business forward.

Speaking Topics

• Navigating Change – Felicity equips teams with essential tools to thrive during periods of transformation
• Building High-Performing Teams – Felicity offers practical tools for building collaborative, inclusive, high-performing teams who can thrive under pressure
• Overcoming Adversity – harnessing the power of ‘Mindset over Matter’, building resilience, and leveraging your support network to overcome challenges
• Promoting Wellbeing – practical tools and techniques to protect and enhance mental and physical wellbeing and prevent burnout in busy, working lives
• Motivation and Goalsetting – overcoming fear and overwhelm to achieve ambitious goals

Keynotes

Rowing through storms: thriving in the face of adversity – 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.

Dare to dream: achieving extraordinary goals –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.

Riding the waves of change – There is nothing as constant as change. Professionally and personally, it’s hard to avoid change, but it can be disruptive, unsettling and exhausting. Our ability to adapt determines our success. 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.

Crafting winning teams – 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.