ELEVATE

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1:1 coaching for ambitious professionals ready to make a step change.

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Does this sound familiar?

You already know something needs to change. The question is what.

You've gotten the feedback. You've read the articles. You've tried being more visible, speaking up more, taking on more. And you're still in the same place.

The issue isn't motivation or effort. It's that the advice you've been given was aimed at the wrong problem. Most career guidance tells you to do more of what already isn't working. What actually needs to change is how you think about your work, how you communicate it, and how you create direction instead of waiting for it.

That's a specific skill set. And it can be learned with my help.

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UNDERSTAND WHAT’S ACTUALLY HAPPENING

Before we build a plan, we identify what's really going on. Most people come in focused on a surface problem. The real blocker is usually something more specific: how work is being described, how ideas are being presented, or where clarity breaks down under pressure.

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BUILD THE RIGHT STRATEGY FOR YOUR SITUATION

Generic advice fails because it isn't built for your specific role, your specific organization, or the specific expectations at your level. Every strategy we develop is grounded in what you're actually navigating.

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PUT IT INTO PRACTICE

Clarity without repetition doesn't stick. We work through the real conversations, real meetings, and real decisions you're facing so the shift in how you think and communicate becomes natural, not forced.

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Elevate by Ashley R

Most coaching gives you frameworks and sends you off to figure out how they apply to your life. That's not what this is.

Elevate is a 3-month 1:1 engagement built around your actual work. We'll identify where the gap is between how you're operating and how you're being perceived, then build the specific thinking, communication, and positioning skills to close it. You'll learn how to translate your work into impact leadership recognizes, lead high-stakes conversations with a clear point of view, and operate with the kind of clarity that builds trust at the next level.

The goal isn't to make you feel more confident. It's to give you something real to be confident about.

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Real Talk - CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

  • “I reached out to Ashley at a time in my career when I needed guidance and someone to remind me how much I have to offer. Ashley is an expert at listening to you and truly understanding what you are passionate about and skilled at and then coming up with a strategy to get you into roles that utilize those skills and passions. I felt strongly about having a woman coach who truly understood some of the hurdles women face in career searches. With Ashley's expert guidance, I was able to ultimately a new role with a significant salary increase and leadership advancement opportunity.”

    Assistant Director, Learning at an Ivy League Institution

  • "I initially sought a coach to help me find clarity and meaning in my next career move. What I received in Ashley was a coach who helped me unlock my purpose and instilled in me the courage to ask for what I deserved. She is smart, caring, and exceptionally strategic. Every time we spoke, I left feeling more empowered and confident in my abilities. She knows exactly the right questions to ask, and she was quick in tailoring her approach to meet my specific needs. Ashley has been an invaluable partner in the short time we've worked together, and I can't imagine a world where she is not a part of my journey."

    VP, Marketing at one of the world’s leading publishing powerhouses

  • “I was looking to work with a coach because I felt that I wanted some outside insight about my current role, my career, and my professional future. I especially wanted to work with Ashley because I knew there would be a level of shorthand because she is a high-performing senior level Black woman executive. This meant that we were able to be efficient with our time together; I wasn’t educating on intersectionality, identity politics, representation gaps, microagressions and more. She immediately understood what it meant to be a high-performing, high-level executive. Ashley provided validation, clarity, and tools to own my leadership free of self-doubt and fear. With Ashley, I have become a more sure-footed leader of teams that I managed. It has been valuable context for setting expectations, understand my worth and value, not only in my place of employment, but also in my industry. Ashley, you are my secret power.”

    SVP, Communications at an award-winning PR agency

  • “Ashley is an exceptionally talented coach and I would recommend her to anyone. From our first meeting, she instantly connected with me and was able to listen and uncover insights about myself that I was blind to - it felt like she really 'got' me, despite us having just met. For every session Ashley came prepared and clearly having put deep thought into the time we were going to spend together. Despite having a week or two between sessions, she was able to seamlessly pick up where we left off, continuing the flow of the prior work. I am so grateful to have worked with Ashley and would recommend her to any high performer looking to refine their vision and take action.”

    Student at Harvard Business School

  • “I would describe my coaching experience with you as meeting with a highly qualified distant cousin. The coaching felt tailored to me, you gave me real-time feedback and homework, and you were very direct about the things I needed to improve versus where I was doing well. As someone who always looks for ways to do better, you took time to make sure I acknowledged my wins and not just move on to the next thing without congratulating myself. You were very encouraging, thorough, warm, and relatable. I appreciated how you allowed for space to vent a bit professionally, but you always tied it back to a few actionable items so that it didn't just feel like a venting session. You listened, processed, and then provided me with ways to solve the issue or pivot. I would give a 10/10 rating on coaching.”

    HR & Experience Lead at a leading entertainment company

  • “I am more self-assured, empowered and intentional in how I communicate with my my CEO. When I started I felt like often what I said or shared with my leader fell on deaf ears or wasn't relevant. Now I have greater confidence in the impact, relevance and reception of what I communicate - that's huge! That's been a gamechanger for my sense of self worth at the work.”

    Director of Executive Operations at a venture-backed tech company

  • “Ashley rotated between guide/coach, understanding ear, and mirror beautifully and in all the ways I needed it most but didn't know it. As a result, I was able to take a challenging onboarding experience into a new company and bring up my confidence. Working with Ashley has helped me to identify and name where issues and triggers come from, and as a result I truly feel like I got my mojo back. I am so grateful for Ashley. The only negative is that I've never had a coach before this experience and I am nervous that Ashley is as good as it gets?”

    Head of HR in the Beauty Industry

  • “Ashley was able to help me think creatively and strategically through workplace challenges that were directly tied to my career progression in my organization. Her support and advice were precise, timely, and spot on. She was effective and helped me impress the right people. After the end of our initial engagement, I achieved all of the goals I had and was able to successfully get a major strategy approved. I look forward to working with her in the future and she comes highly recommended!”

    Director of Digital Learning at a top non-profit

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CAREER STRATEGIST // POSITIONING EXPERT // NEW YORKER // HIGH-ACHIEVER //

I help ambitious professionals position themselves for the opportunities they want and get them.

I went from individual contributor to Vice President in five years. Along the way, I learned something most high performers figure out too late: leadership doesn't evaluate effort. It evaluates how clearly you think, how well you communicate, and whether you create direction or wait for it.

I built Elevate because that shift is teachable. And most people were never taught it.

My clients are Directors, VPs, and senior managers at companies including Meta, Disney, A24, and Citi, across industries from entertainment and finance to tech and higher education. In three months, they stop describing their work in terms of what they did and start communicating it in terms of what it drove. That's the shift that changes how they're seen, what they're offered, and what they're able to ask for.

LEARN MORE ABOUT ME

When you invest in Elevate by Ashley R., you get strategic guidance that actually moves the needle on your career.

We dive into the real work: positioning you for promotion, crafting narratives that get you noticed, preparing for high-stakes conversations, and building the executive presence that opens doors. Every session has a clear focus, and every strategy we develop has one goal—getting you the recognition, compensation, and opportunities you want.

Here’s what’s included

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1:1 Coaching Sessions

Biweekly, 60-minute sessions built around what you're actually navigating. Not hypotheticals. Real situations, real language, real next steps.

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COMPREHENSIVE ONBOARDING EXPERIENCE

We start with a 60-minute deep dive and targeted assessments to identify where the gap actually is before we build anything.

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EXECUTIVE LEVEL FRAMEWORKS

Tools and language developed from years at the executive level, including how to manage up, communicate work as business impact, and lead conversations that create direction.

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STRENGTHS ASSESSMENT

A Deeper Signals analysis to identify what you do best and how to position it deliberately at the next level.

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CUSTOM RESOURCES & TEMPLATES

Scripts, frameworks, and guides built for the situations you're actually in: promotion conversations, high-stakes presentations, and performance reviews.

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ONGOING SUPPORT BETWEEN SESSIONS

Direct access to Ashley between sessions so you're not left to figure out real-time situations on your own.

YOUR INVESTMENT

$3,595

OR 3 PAYMENTS OF

$1,250

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FAQs

  • My clients get promoted, land the roles they want, and finally get recognized as strategic leaders. In the last year alone, clients have negotiated promotions with $40K+ salary increases, landed roles at companies like Simon & Schuster, and positioned themselves for director-level opportunities.

    But the results go beyond titles and compensation. You'll walk away knowing exactly how to position yourself in high-stakes conversations, how to advocate for what you want without seeming pushy, and how to build the executive presence that gets you noticed for the right reasons.

    Bottom line: if you're ready to make strategic moves in your career, we'll create a concrete plan to get you there. If you're not ready to do the work, this probably isn't for you.

  • I work with ambitious professionals who are ready for their next level—whether that's a promotion, a new role, or finally getting recognized as strategic.

    My clients are Directors, VPs, and senior managers at companies like Meta, Disney, A24, JLL, and Grafana, across industries like tech, entertainment, finance, healthcare, and education. They're high-performers who know they're capable of more but need strategic guidance to get there.

    If you're someone who does great work but struggles to get the recognition you deserve, or if you're ready for a bigger role but not sure how to position yourself, you're probably a good fit.

  • Here's what I've learned: most smart, capable people can figure out the "what" of career advancement. The problem is the "how" - and more importantly, what you can't see about yourself.

    You might not realize you're underselling yourself in important conversations or that your "collaborative style" is actually making you seem less decisive to leadership. Maybe you think you're being strategic, but you're coming across as too in the weeds. Or you're waiting for someone to notice your great work instead of actively positioning yourself.

    I'm your outside perspective. I see the gaps between how you think you're showing up and how you're actually being perceived - and I help you close them.

  • Clients I’ve coached have moved into roles like Director, VP, and SVP often with significant salary increases (5-6 figures!).

    But honestly? The wins I'm most proud of aren't always the title changes. It's the client who stopped apologizing for her ideas in meetings. The one who finally had the promotion conversation he'd been avoiding for a year. The executive who learned to advocate for her team's budget without feeling like she was being "too much”.

    The common thread? They all stopped waiting for someone else to recognize their value and started actively positioning themselves for what they wanted.

  • I'm not here to make you feel good about staying where you are. I'm going to push you to see things differently, call you out when you're underselling yourself, and give you concrete frameworks to actually use.

    Our sessions aren't therapy - they're strategy meetings. We'll dig into real situations from your work, practice difficult conversations, and create specific action plans. I'll give you homework, and yes, I'll hold you accountable for doing it.

    Fair warning: I'm direct. If you want someone to just validate your feelings and tell you you're amazing, I'm not your coach. If you want someone who will help you get unstuck and actually move forward - let's talk.

  • Every other week. Here's why: if we meet weekly, you don't have time to actually implement anything between sessions. If we meet monthly, you lose momentum and forget half of what we talked about.

    Two weeks gives you enough time to try the frameworks we discuss, have those important conversations, or work on whatever homework I give you. Then we come back together to troubleshoot what worked, what didn't, and what to tackle next.

    Plus, honestly? Most people need that built-in accountability. Knowing you have to report back in two weeks keeps you moving forward instead of procrastinating on the important stuff.

MAKE CAREER MOVES THAT MATTER

CREATE THE CAREER YOU ACTUALLY WANT.

At some point, most high performers realize that waiting and working harder aren't moving the needle. They're right. The step change isn't about effort. It's about learning to operate differently at the level where effort alone stops being the answer.

That's learnable. And three months is enough time to feel the difference.

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