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Ashley Johnson

Ashley Johnson

Founder & Leadership Development Advisor

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

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Ashley Johnson is the founder of Brightwell Leadership, a leadership development consultancy that helps growing organizations build stronger leaders during moments of change. She partners with HR and People leaders who are supporting managers and leadership teams as expectations rise faster than support, particularly during growth, transition, or increased complexity.

Ashley brings over 15 years of experience designing and leading leadership development, facilitation, and advisory work across multiple industries. Her background includes leading enterprise leadership development and talent initiatives at Hilton, Levi Strauss & Co., and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, where she supported leaders and teams navigating scale, evolving expectations, and organizational change.

Her work focuses on helping organizations move beyond one-off programs toward clearer leadership expectations, capability-based development, and learning approaches that are embedded in real work. Ashley is known for her human-first, systems-aware approach and her ability to translate leadership theory into practical tools leaders can actually use.

She speaks frequently on leadership transitions, manager capability, and designing development that drives both performance and trust.

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Humanities & Social Sciences

Topics

  • Leadership
  • Leadership development
  • Authentic Leadership
  • Leadership Empowerment
  • Leadership and Presentation Skills
  • Change Leadership
  • Women in Leadership
  • Business Leadership
  • Inclusive Leadership
  • Learning and Development
  • Leadership Training
  • Leadership Skills for Managerial Success
  • Management
  • People Management
  • Coaching
  • Strengths-based leadership
  • Gallup CliftonStrengths
  • Team Building
  • Teams
  • Team Management
  • Teams and Organizations
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Black women
  • Black Women Entrepreneurs
  • Human Resources
  • Human resources strategy
  • Human Resource Management
  • Talent
  • Talent Retention
  • Talent Management
  • Talent Development
  • HR & Talent Development
  • Female Leadership
  • Organizational Culture
  • Organizational Change
  • Organizational Development
  • Organizational Change Management
  • People & Culture
  • People Leadership
  • People Skills
  • People and Culture
  • People-First Leadership
  • People Centric Organizations
  • People Capability Maturity Model
  • HR & People Development
  • Black People
  • Facilitation
  • Panel Member
  • Group Facilitation
  • Leadership Coaching
  • Executive Coaching
  • Executive Presence
  • executive development
  • Professional Development
  • Culture & Collaboration

Ashley Johnson

Founder & Leadership Development Advisor

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

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