What’s stopping you from being a better leader?
Learn from the strategist whose consulting and marketing portfolio represents over $45M in combined enterprise value.
a.M&G Report
Total Marketing Value Managed
$123M
Total Revenue in Result of Growth Initiatives
$564M
We spend two days inside your business building stronger leaders, stronger teams, and a stronger company.
Leadership isn't a department. It's the operating system behind every conversation, decision, and result.
Over two days, we work alongside your leadership team and employees to identify communication breakdowns, leadership gaps, operational friction, and the systems holding your company back. Then we deliver a roadmap to help your people lead with more confidence and accountability.
Your company leaves with:
✔ Leadership Alignment Across Your Entire Company
✔ Communication Heatmap
✔ Accountability Blueprint
✔ The Executive Leadership Scorecard
✔ Team & Management Coaching
✔ Operational Blind Spot Assessment
✔ Process & Workflow Recommendations
✔ Custom Leadership Playbook
✔ 90-Day Implementation Roadmap
Our leadership lab is for organizations that are ready to lead differently:
Are growing faster than their leadership systems
Struggle with communication between leadership and staff
Want managers who lead instead of supervise
Need stronger accountability without micromanaging
Want to build a healthier, higher-performing culture
Are tired of solving the same problems every quarter
A modern guide to AI, systems, and sustainable growth built for founders and executives scaling real businesses. Inside the Scaling Playbook, Ashley breaks down what actually happens as companies grow, where businesses start breaking operationally, how AI should really be implemented, and what it takes to scale without creating chaos in the process.
Meet Ashley
Born and raised in Michigan. Lived and learned across the country. A visionary and creator at her core, she proudly owns Mute. The Agency. and evolved her freelance consulting career into a.M&G in 2025 after working alongside 100+ companies over the last 7 years. Ashley continues her legacy as a dynamic founder and industry leader.
Ashley’s Consultancy of Record 2019-Present (Not Including Mute. The Agency.’s Roster): Indiana State University, Inkbox, Tory Burch, Marc Jacobs, Shoe Carnival, General Motors, US Bank, The Skin Cancer Foundation, Forbes 30 Under 30, Little Caesars, Equifax, Pure Michigan, Fender Guitars, Goodwill, Corewell Health, Ascension, Hungry Howie’s, Walmart, Google, Colgate, Apple, Hudson Bay, L’Oreal, Xbox, P&G, Maybelline, Garnier, Levi’s, Nerf, Melissa and Doug, Lol Surprise, Paw Patrol, Smart Water, Coca Cola, Xbox, Beats by Dre, The Aspen Group, Chapter Aesthetics, Eva NYC, Agua Bendita, Wallblush, Uber, Republic Brand Group, Dose, Dr. Sanjay Bhojraj MD, Laguna Institute of Functional Medicine, Dr. Lifestyle, Dr. Micah Yu, My Autoimmune MD, Advil, Voltaren, Hinge Health, Innerverse, The Clements Twins, and Kaveah.
We build leaders who build better companies.
Learn from the strategist whose marketing and consulting portfolio represents over $45M in combined enterprise value.
Lead Yourself First Intensive
A two-day, in-person experience at your home turf or at HQ’s designed to strengthen your leaders, align your teams, and uncover the communication, leadership, and operational friction preventing your company from reaching its full potential.
Day One: Lead Yourself First for Teams
We spend the day inside your business. We observe. We listen. We ask questions. We work directly alongside your managers and employees to understand how your organization actually operates.
Together, we'll uncover:
• Leadership blind spots
• Communication breakdowns
• Accountability gaps
• Decision-making bottlenecks
• Team dynamics
• Operational friction
Our goal is to understand how to get you better results and help you craft the best team possible.
Day Two: Lead Yourself First for Executives
Once we've experienced your business firsthand, we sit down with your executive team. This is where we connect the dots.
We'll walk through what we observed, identify recurring themes, prioritize opportunities, and build a practical roadmap your leadership team can actually execute.
You'll leave with:
• Leadership priorities
• Executive recommendations
• Communication frameworks
• Team structure improvements
• Systems & workflow recommendations
• A 90-day implementation roadmap
Fast facts
Brands recently impacted by Ashley
The Aspen Group, Walmart, L’Oreal Paris, P&G, Google, General Motors, and Republic Brand Group.
in multiple industries
Healthcare, retail, beauty, B2B, B2C, e-commerce, finance, and tech.
resulting in
564M revenue, 200M+ accounts reached and consulted 100+ brands.
Ashley was awarded the 2023 GDUSA Health & Wellness Award for: Best Brand Strategy
During Ashley's tenure at The Aspen Group, her leadership played a pivotal role in scaling the organization's internal marketing function from the ground up. She built and led the internal agency, developed the company's internal recruitment marketing initiatives, and implemented strategic programs that strengthened both team performance and organizational growth. Under her leadership, The Aspen Group saw a significant increase in patient satisfaction, reflecting stronger patient loyalty and experience. Her innovative digital strategies also drove a 40% increase in website traffic and a 25% increase in new patient acquisitions, reinforcing the connection between strong leadership, aligned teams, and measurable business results.
Straight talk.
Whether it's a podcast, panel, keynote, or guest interview, Ashley is known for saying what others won't. Her talks focus on business growth, mindset, leadership, and the realities of running a business when the textbook answers stop working.
She doesn't speak from a stage looking down. She speaks from experience—sharing the wins, the mistakes, the pivots, and the lessons most people only learn the hard way. Through brutally honest stories, sharp observations, and a healthy disregard for business clichés, she helps audiences see both business and life from a different perspective.
Built for the women changing the way business is done.
Mute. The Agency. started in marketing. Today, it helps female founders scale beyond it. Sprint & Scale is Ashley's signature 3-day intensive for founders crossing the $1M mark and preparing for what's next.
Brand. Content. AI. Operations. Leadership. The parts of the business that matter when growth stops being the goal and becomes the responsibility.
How Ashley operates
Ashley blends logic and instinct to make decisions quickly.
She is ruthless in the way she analyzes systems, team roles, and operational behavior.
Growth will never come at the cost of identity, leadership, or human connection.
AI should strengthen how a business operates not replace the people behind it.
Ashley doesn’t work halfway. Neither does her team.
Every workshop is selective, hands-on, and built for long-term impact.
“AI will change every business. But human behavior still decides whether they survive.”
Ashley Gibbons
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