✦ Experience Strategy · Production · Facilitation · Speaking ✦

Your people will remember how it feltlong after they forget the agenda.

I help purpose-driven organizations turn a mission, message, event, or gathering into an intentional participant journey people can understand, trust, engage with, and remember.

Ashleigh Hakes facilitating a real retreat conversation

THE TRUTH OF WHERE YOU ARE

A full agenda is not the same as a coherent experience.

01The venue, speakers, content, and team exist—but no one is holding the whole participant journey.

02Communications, logistics, content, and hospitality are living in separate rooms.

03The founder or event lead has become the nervous system for everything.

04The mission matters too much for the experience around it to feel fragmented.

THE REVERSAL

The moments between the moments shape what people trust.

There is a kind of experience that changes people—not simply because it was perfectly produced, though it was. Because someone understood that the room, the pacing, the invitation, the welcome, and the way people are cared for before, during, and after are all part of the transformation. Exceptional experiences align objective, audience, emotional arc, content, hospitality, communications, operations, team, and continuation.

A luminous path moving through a cosmic mountain landscape

THE WORK BECOMES REAL HERE

Where the vision finds its shape.

The cosmic and the logistical belong together. The feeling matters. The invitation matters. The structure that lets people trust the experience matters, too.

PROOF OF PRODUCTION · LUMINOUS FIREFLOW

The vision became a living experience in six weeks.

Ashleigh and Tiffany co-produced a ceremonial gathering for more than 100 guests with 30+ volunteers and collaborators—bringing musicians, wellness practitioners, vendors, family care, land stewardship, sound, movement, and hospitality into one coherent arc.

100+GUESTS
30+COLLABORATORS
6WEEKS TO PRODUCE
A luminous gathering held beneath the trees at sunsetWATCH LUMINOUS FIREFLOWTHE EXPERIENCE IN MOTION · OPENS ON FACEBOOK ↗

THE PATHWAY

From meaningful vision to a participant journey that works.

Every partnership is scoped around the real objective, audience, decision structure, timeline, and team.

01 · Discover

Name the real objective

Align on audience, purpose, timing, current challenges, and what success needs to mean.

02 · Architect

Design the whole journey

Connect communications, content, hospitality, flow, belonging, and operations.

03 · Produce

Make roles and reality visible

Clarify timelines, systems, responsibilities, decisions, risks, and run of show.

04 · Lead

Facilitate the living room

Support speakers, teams, volunteers, and participants through the real experience.

05 · Continue

Debrief and carry it forward

Capture learning, evidence, recommendations, and the next iteration.

WHAT SUPPORT LOOKS LIKE

Structure strong enough to hold the work.

✦ 01

Event strategy

You have an idea. We build the architecture—vision, positioning, audience, programming structure, logistics framework, and a clear path to execution.

✦ 02

Full experience production

End-to-end production for your event or immersive experience. I hold the vision and the spreadsheet: creative direction, vendor relationships, participant experience design, on-the-ground management, and every detail in between.

✦ 03

Consulting & strategic mentorship

A thinking partner for leaders navigating complex event builds, organizational experiences, or community programming. We work through the real challenge and leave with clarity, decisions, and a way forward.

✦ 04

Facilitation & speaking

Workshops, keynotes, custom activations, and in-room leadership.

✦ 05

Team alignment

Clear ownership, decision authority, handoffs, and participant care.

✦ 06

Strategic debrief

Post-experience learning and practical recommendations for what comes next.

WORDS FROM INSIDE THE WORK

The experience speaks through the people who have lived it.

Not polished case-study language. Real messages, real recommendations, and the words people chose after being inside the work.

PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION✦COMMUNITY EXPERIENCES✦BUSINESS STRATEGY
Original public recommendation from Tiffany Fede describing Ashleigh's facilitation as 111 out of 10
PUBLIC FACILITATION RECOMMENDATION
Original participant message describing a powerful, joyful, and healing group experience
POWERFUL GROUP EXPERIENCE
Original participant reflection describing a nourishing masterclass-level experience
TEACHING + DEPTH
Original community conversation validating Ashleigh's content retreat vision
VISION + COMMUNITY CO-CREATION

THIS IS FOR YOU IF

You are ready to meet the work honestly.

  • You are a purpose-driven company, nonprofit, conference, venue, retreat brand, founder, or collaborator.
  • You value participant experience, human connection, strategic clarity, and professional execution.
  • You are ready to invest in getting it right—and to clarify scope, decision authority, budget, and outcomes.

THIS IS NOT FOR YOU IF

  • You want a commodity event-planning service or free speculative strategy.
  • You need unscoped emergency rescue or guaranteed attendance and revenue.

QUESTIONS

What you may be wondering.

Can you plan the entire event?+

Potentially. The right scope depends on timeline, team, budget, objective, and decision authority.

Can you work with our existing producer or team?+

Yes. Clear roles, ownership, communication, and decision authority are part of creating a healthy partnership.

Do you speak or facilitate?+

Yes. Keynotes, workshops, facilitated sessions, and custom activations can be included in the scope.

How do we begin?+

Every engagement starts with an application and a discovery conversation. This helps us explore fit, clarify what you are building, and identify the most useful way forward. Applications are reviewed within three business days.

YOUR NEXT STEP

If you are gathering people for something that matters, the experience around the message matters too.

Let’s create the conditions for your people to actually feel what your organization stands for. Bring me what you are building, and we will begin with an application and a discovery conversation.

THREE HONEST WAYS TO ENTER

Begin with the doorway that meets you now.