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Felicity Ashley
Transform organisational resilience with Felicity Ashley, adventurer and speaker on mindset and collaboration. Felicity equips teams to perform under pressure, using her "Mindset over Matter" philosophy developed through her 20-year career leading blue-chip marketing teams and taking on extraordinary challenges like rowing the Atlantic while unknowingly battling cancer, and later becoming female class winners of the mid-Pacific crossing in World's Toughest Row. #1 bestselling author of Stronger than the Storm.
Felicity Ashley transforms organisational resilience through her unique blend of corporate leadership experience and extraordinary personal challenges. She equips teams to perform under pressure while navigating tough business transformations, growth targets, and market disruption.
As a 20-year veteran leading blue-chip marketing teams, Felicity brings practical business acumen to her presentations. Her perspective is further enriched by remarkable personal achievements, including rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic with undiagnosed cancer, completing the world's highest marathon from Everest Base Camp, and returning to the ocean to row the mid-Pacific from California to Hawaii, where she and her crew were crowned female class winners of World's Toughest Row. Her #1 best-selling memoir, Stronger than the Storm, chronicles this journey of adventure and unbreakable spirit.
Felicity's "Mindset over Matter" philosophy helps organisations tackle today's most pressing challenges. She delivers actionable strategies for building resilience during uncertainty, fostering collaborative cultures during transformation, and maintaining peak performance under pressure. Her approach combines psychological insights with practical business applications, creating sustainable change within teams facing complex challenges.
Audiences leave Felicity's presentations with practical tools to reframe obstacles as opportunities, techniques to build resilience during organisational change, and strategies to maintain focus and performance during high-pressure situations. As a working mother of three, she connects authentically with professionals juggling multiple responsibilities.
Book Felicity to inspire your team to embrace change, overcome challenges, and unlock their full potential to drive your business forward.
Topics, sessions and talks
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 restructures, 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 Ashley 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, resilience, and building support networks.
To thrive in a competitive business context, organisations need to constantly evolve and set challenging goals. To succeed, they need to support their people in developing the skills and mindset they need to take on, embrace, and smash their goals. Felicity Ashley 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 discusses 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. Organisations need to help their people to see change as an opportunity and provide them with the skills and mindset they need to adapt and thrive through changing times. Felicity Ashley embodies transformation, and using her experiences and journey from marketer, to ocean rower, cancer survivor and now speaker and author, she inspires and motivates people to embrace, rather than fear change, adapt and seize the opportunities it offers.
Felicity Ashley combines 20 years of blue-chip leadership experience with extraordinary personal resilience—rowing the Atlantic with undiagnosed cancer and completeing the world's highest marathon from Everest Base Camp—to deliver transformative strategies that help teams thrive under pressure and navigate organisational change. Book Felicity to equip your organisation with practical tools for building resilience, fostering collaboration, and maintaining peak performance during your most challenging business transformations.
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To book Felicity Ashley, email felicity.ashley@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Felicity's availability and speaking fee. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and about your audience.
Felicity Ashley structures her talks around first-person narrative, drawing on two parallel personal experiences — rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic whilst carrying undiagnosed cancer, and her subsequent cancer recovery — to illustrate a progression from challenge to actionable outcome. She extracts transferable tools and techniques from these experiences, framing them within her Mindset over Matter philosophy to give audiences a practical framework for resilience and change.
Felicity Ashley's sessions address performing under pressure, goal-setting through adversity, and navigating organisational change, with themes of mindset, resilience, and building support networks running across all three. She rowed 3,000 miles across the Atlantic with undiagnosed cancer and subsequently completed the mid-Pacific row from California to Hawaii, where her crew took the female class title at World's Toughest Row, making her one of fewer than 15 women to have rowed both oceans.
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