Ways to Work Together
Consulting engagements are customized around the needs of your organization, audience, or project. Dr. Ashley's work generally falls within three areas:
Subject Matter Expertise & Advisory
Bring specialized psychological expertise into the development of programs, products, services, content, or organizational initiatives. Dr. Ashley provides evidence-informed consultation, research-to-practice translation, content review and development, and ongoing advisory support.
Engagements may range from focused consultation on a specific question to longer-term collaboration as a subject matter expert or advisor.
Speaking, Webinars & Training
Engage employees, leaders, professionals, or other audiences through evidence-based education that is accessible, relevant, and immediately useful.
Dr. Ashley develops and delivers webinars, presentations, panels, workshops, and professional trainings, with content customized to the needs and context of the organization and audience.
Some projects cross both areas, combining subject matter consultation with education or training developed for a particular audience
Areas of Expertise
Dr. Ashley's consulting work draws from specialized expertise at the intersection of psychology, health, work, and leadership. Topics and engagements can be tailored to the needs of a particular organization or audience.
Women's Health Across the Lifespan
Support organizations in understanding the psychological and workplace dimensions of women's health across major life and hormonal transitions.
Areas of expertise include pregnancy and postpartum mental health, parental leave and return to work, fertility and reproductive mental health, PMDD, and perimenopause and menopause, as well as the ways these experiences can affect well-being, cognition, identity, relationships, and work.
Neurodiversity
Translate current understanding of ADHD, autism, and executive functioning into practical approaches for individuals, leaders, teams, and organizations.
Topics may include ADHD and autism in adults and women, late identification and diagnosis, executive functioning, neuroinclusive leadership and workplace practices, supporting neurodivergent employees, and parenting or caregiving for neurodivergent children.
Leadership & Professional Performance
Apply psychological science to the human demands of complex professional work—how people think, communicate, make decisions, manage competing demands, develop others, and adapt as their roles evolve.
Areas of focus may include executive functioning and work systems, communication and feedback, leadership development, sustainable performance, professional transitions, caregiver demands, and creating work practices that better support how people actually function.
These areas frequently intersect. A conversation about menopause may also involve cognition and leadership. A neurodiversity initiative may involve managers, workplace systems, and communication. Parental leave may involve individual well-being, organizational culture, and leadership practices.
That intersection is often where the most useful work happens.
Training That Doesn't End When the Session Does
Good professional education should do more than provide information. It should help people understand something differently—and know what to do with that understanding afterward.
Employees can tell the difference between meaningful professional development and training that simply checks a box. Dr. Ashley develops learning experiences around the needs of the organization, the audience, and what participants should be better equipped to understand or do after the session.
Depending on the goal, an engagement might be a focused webinar, a short learning series, manager training, an interactive workshop, or a more intensive team experience. Programs can be delivered virtually or in person and adapted for small groups, large organizational audiences, or something in between.
Webinars & Presentations
Evidence-based, engaging education for employee populations, professional groups, employee resource groups, leaders, caregivers, and other audiences. Sessions can incorporate participant interaction and Q&A or be designed for larger-scale, streamlined delivery.
Manager & Leadership Training
Focused development for the people responsible for leading and supporting others. Topics may include communication, change, employee well-being, neuroinclusion, caregiver support, leadership practices, and navigating the human side of organizational demands.
Workshops & Facilitated Experiences
Interactive engagements for teams or groups that need more than information alone. Workshops can create space to examine patterns, practice skills, work through a particular challenge, clarify priorities, or translate concepts into concrete changes.
Micro-Sessions & Learning Series
Short, narrowly focused sessions or multi-part programming that breaks complex topics into manageable pieces. A series format can also provide opportunities to apply ideas between sessions and build on learning over time.
Experience Across Audiences & Organizations
Dr. Ashley has developed and delivered programming for law firms, financial institutions, healthcare and mental health organizations, professional associations, leadership groups, and employee resource groups, with engagements ranging from small leadership teams to audiences of several hundred participants in the U.S. and internationally.
Past programming has addressed topics including women's mental health and well-being, pregnancy and postpartum, perimenopause and menopause, neurodiversity, ADHD and executive functioning, working parents and caregivers, communication, change management, resilience, mindfulness and self-compassion, leadership, and professional performance.
Content and format are customized around what your organization wants people to understand, do differently, or be better equipped to navigate afterward.
Subject Matter Expertise & Advisory
Sometimes the most useful role for a psychologist isn't providing a service directly. It's helping shape what an organization is building, communicating, or trying to solve.
Dr. Ashley partners with organizations that need specialized psychological expertise incorporated into programs, products, services, educational content, or workplace initiatives. Engagements can begin with a specific question or extend into an ongoing advisory relationship as a project develops.
The work combines psychological science with attention to the practical realities of implementation—helping organizations determine not only what the evidence suggests, but how to translate it thoughtfully for the people they are trying to reach.
Research & Evidence Translation
Translate psychological research into clear, accurate, and usable guidance for programs, resources, professional education, workplace initiatives, or other applications.
Content Development & Review
Develop or review psychologically informed content for accuracy, nuance, audience fit, and alignment with current evidence. This may include educational materials, digital content, tools and resources, training materials, or other public- or professional-facing content.
Program & Product Consultation
Bring a psychological perspective into the development or refinement of programs, services, tools, and products involving mental health, neurodiversity, women's health, behavior change, or professional functioning.
Ongoing Subject Matter Expertise
Serve as a subject matter expert or advisor as an initiative evolves, providing consultation on emerging questions, reviewing developing work, and helping teams think through decisions where psychological expertise can meaningfully inform the direction.
The goal isn't to add psychology at the end of a project. It's to bring the right expertise into the process when it can make the work stronger.
What a Consulting Engagement Looks Like
Every engagement starts with the problem you're trying to solve, the people you're trying to reach, and what you want the work to accomplish.
Start With a Conversation
We begin by discussing your organization, audience, goals, and what prompted you to reach out. You don't need to arrive with a fully developed scope or know exactly what format you need.
Define the Right Approach
Together, we'll determine what makes sense for the project—whether that's a focused consultation, ongoing subject matter expertise, a webinar or training, or a combination of services.
Customize the Work
Content, recommendations, and deliverables are developed around your particular audience and context. For educational programming, this may include collaboration with organizational stakeholders before the session to ensure the material fits the people who will actually be in the room.
Deliver & Collaborate
Dr. Ashley provides the agreed-upon consultation, advisory support, content, or programming, with the level of collaboration shaped by the project.
Follow Through
When useful, an engagement can include follow-up consultation, additional resources, continued advisory support, or subsequent programming that builds on the initial work.
The process is intentionally flexible. A one-hour webinar and a nine-month advisory engagement shouldn't require the same structure—and they don't.
Consulting Fees & Practical Information
Consulting engagements vary substantially in scope, from focused speaking and training engagements to longer-term advisory relationships. Fees are established based on the needs and structure of each project.
Customized Scope & Fees
Consulting engagements are scoped individually based on the goals of the project, level of preparation and customization, format, audience, and extent of ongoing collaboration.
Following an initial conversation, Dr. Ashley will provide a proposed scope of work and fee structure appropriate to the engagement.
Virtual & In-Person Engagements
Consulting services are available to organizations throughout the U.S. and internationally. Webinars, advisory work, and consultation can be provided virtually, with in-person speaking, training, and other engagements available depending on location and project needs.
Speaking & Training Logistics
Programs can be developed for a range of formats and audience sizes. For in-person engagements requiring travel, applicable travel time and expenses are addressed as part of the project scope.