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  What it’s like working with Felicity

“Felicity was so easy to work with. She took the brief and rolled with it. The story she has to share is inspiring and my team left the session feeling energised and ready to tackle the challenges ahead.”

— Louise Wells, MD, Bubble Agency

“She was a delight to work with, diligent in her preparation and tailored her talk to address specific focus areas for our firm. She was generous with her Q&A time and very engaging. The feedback from attendees was excellent - with one commenting they would watch the recording every month for inspiration!”

— Stephanie Maier, Global Chief Sustainability Officer, GAM Investments

Biographies

  • Mother, Marketer, Mariner, Motivator. After 20 years working as a blue-chip marketing leader, business founder and mother of three Felicity Ashley rowed the Atlantic whilst unknowingly fighting cancer. She now guides leaders and teams on their own transformational journeys, showing how harnessing a positive mindset is key to thriving in work and life.

  • Mother, Marketer, Mariner, Motivator. After 20 years working as a blue-chip marketing leader, business founder and mother of three Felicity Ashley rowed the Atlantic whilst unknowingly fighting cancer.

    Drawing on her personal journeys of discovery, she now works with organisations and leaders facing transformational change. Supporting them to become more inclusive, dynamic, adaptable and resilient. Her work focuses on how a positive mindset is key to success – overcoming challenges, tackling biases, creating winning teams, thriving through change, embracing opportunities, smashing goals. When life gives you lemons, it’s not just about making lemonade - it’s about using them to create something amazing.

  • Mother. Marketer. Mariner. Motivator. Felicity Ashley is a former blue-chip marketing leader with more than 20 years’ experience, transatlantic rower, cancer survivor, business founder and mother of three. While recovering from a hip replacement, she decided to put her renewed mobility to the test and take on ‘the world’s toughest row’ – while unknowingly battling bowel cancer. She’s resilient, dynamic, authentic, relatable, positive, inspiring.

    Drawing on her personal journeys of discovery, she speaks about how a positive mindset is key to success and happiness – overcoming challenges and fears, tackling biases, creating winning teams, thriving through change, embracing opportunities, smashing goals. When life gives you lemons, it’s not just about making lemonade - it’s about taking what you have and creating something amazing with it.

    She works with organisations and leaders facing transformational change and challenges - setting ambitious goals, building high performing teams, changing corporate culture, promoting health and wellbeing in the workforce or supporting colleagues returning to work.

    She helps organisations and individuals become more inclusive, dynamic, adaptable, confident and resilient, develop a winning mindset to redefine challenges as opportunities, thrive through change and achieve their goals.

Introduction script

Please use this short script to introduce Felicity to your audience

Our next speaker for the {insert event name here} is a seasoned marketer, having spent over 20 years leading marketing teams for some of the UK’s largest, and smallest, organisations. She’s a mother to three busy, young, children. She’s one of only 280 women to have rowed an ocean. And she’s a cancer survivor. 

She embodies mindset over matter – living, breathing and showing how you can build a positive mindset to help overcome challenges, change and adversity and smash your goals.

She’s going to share her unique and inspiring story with us today and show us how we can harness a positive mindset to {insert business challenge here OR feel more confident, capable and resilient}.

Without further ado, please give a very warm welcome to Mother, Marketer, Mariner, Motivator: Felicity Ashley.

AV requirements

Please note that Felicity uses PowerPoint and video to present her content

She can use any laptop to present from but prefers to bring her own – at the moment she’s using a Macbook Air with DVI, HDMI and VAG connectors.

She brings:

  • Macbook Air laptop

  • DVI, HDMI and VAG connectors

  • Wireless presentation clicker

  • Desktop PowerPoint presentation for 16x9 screens with embedded locally playable video files

She needs:

  • A wireless lapel or headset microphone

  • Mains power socket to power her laptop

  • A projector (DVI, HDMI or VGA connector)

  • A speaker system appropriate for the room which will receive audio output from the laptop

  • Preferred: external comfort monitor

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