Let’s create Exquisite Enterprise Together
Organizational Development
…like no one else
Discovery & Strategic Analysis
For increased capacity, equity, and organizational performance, we analyze positioning and potential impact; illuminate systemic, structural, and procedural obstacles; and cultivate readiness.
Solutions & Implementation
For a better now and a sustainable future, we partner with you to deploy bespoke models, tools, and solutions that evolve your organization strategically, ethically, and repeatably.
Facilitation & Leader Coaching
For teams that lead themselves through thick and thin and amplify your organization from the inside out, we facilitate strategic culture shift and cultivate extraordinary teams and leaders. Exquisitely.
Trusted partners in Organizational Evolution
Since 2013
Let us facilitate your exquisite organization.
…not like anyone else. Because neither are you.
A unique blend of analytical Precision & Human-centered Approach
Unlike other consulting services who either get lost in technical details or offer vague inspirational advice, Exquisite Knowing has a remarkable ability to see both the forest and the trees in organizational challenges and to integrate all dimensions seamlessly.
EK methodology is wonderfully adaptable. For Cottonwood Gulch Expeditions, Ashley immersed herself in our operations and got to know the players involved. She quickly grasped our organization’s specific culture and challenges. By customizing Exquisite Knowing models and tools for us, Ashley identified system bottlenecks that had been invisible for years and provided practical frameworks that transformed our internal systems for the better.
And, the real magic is how Exquisite Knowing balances systems expertise with genuine empathy for leadership struggles.
Exquisite Knowing doesn’t just identify problems and deliver cookie-cutter solutions. They build your capacity to solve future challenges independently by becoming a trusted partner in your organization’s evolution. Their unique blend of analytical precision and human-centered approach sets them apart.
—JORDAN STONE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, COTTONWOOD GULCH EXPEDITIONS
The Exquisite Knowing Toolkit
Our tried and true toolkit is wonderfully adaptable. We immerse ourselves in your operations, get to know the players, identify your specific culture and challenges, and customize our tools to your unique context and needs. We render the invisible visible and offer practical frameworks for lasting transformation. We do it with genuine empathy.
KASE
KASE—Know It, Apply It, Sustain It, Explore…—is a transformative process. Avoid burnout and empower yourself to manifest good ideas and theories as sustainable everyday practices and lived experience.
EKomm
Develop and communicate ideas and priorities to maximize impact with this communication model. Better thinking, awareness, and creativity pave the way for exchange that matters and hits its mark.
EKonomy
Redefine what’s possible for your bottom line with this financial model, and also create opportunity, equity, and accountability. Empowered participants drive financial success mutually and reciprocally.
EK-Org
Transform improvised chaos into exquisite organization with this organizational development model. Yield sustainable evolution, bar-raising creativity, and everyday innovation. Position your organization to last. And thrive.
EK-Lead
Increase capacity and innovation with this leadership model. Learn to orchestrate teams that lead themselves, and innovate how you run your business. Become a more effective leader, and your organization becomes more adaptive and resilient.
EK-Team
Do more—and better—with this team development & staffing model. Shift your culture to autonomous self-management, maximize a spectrum of unconventional labor sources, and redefine equity, inclusion, and ROI.
Your Trusted Partner
WITH MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF R&D DRIVING THE CREATION OF EXCEPTIONAL TOOLS AND SERVICES, WE EMPOWER PEOPLE & TEAMS TO EVOLVE ORGANICALLY AND HOLISTICALLY.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
We’re conscious, optimistic, smart, and compassionate. We believe theory and practice have seats at the table, but they aren’t the same thing.
We define innovation in terms of diversity and inclusivity, and our business is manifesting elegant and surprising ways to help our clients and constituencies solve meaningful and complex burning questions–both human and planetary.
We’re intrepidly fathoming depths. We’re hungry to raise our own bar. Every day. Conscious democratic participation rocks our world.
Be audacious. Reach out, and let us know how we can support you to empower yourself and others. We look forward to hearing from you.
Meet Our Chief Org-dev Specialist
Ashley David, MFA/PhD
Simply put, I support organizations to evolve and mature in collaboration with the times and tech so they can do what they do better. Nimbly. In the moment. For the future.
I’ve lived and worked across four continents, creating a potent Mary Poppins-like bag of models, tools, and practices along the way. I tailor them to match your unique needs, promise, and capacity so you can transform how you optimize your business for the long haul. I think big, globally, and holistically while facilitating incremental, feet-on-the-ground action that yields individuals, teams, and communities able to lead themselves to achieve measurable results, notable ROI, and broad-scale accountability informed by impeccable ethics. With systems expertise, analytical precision, and genuine empathy, I confront challenge directly and kindly. A perennial learner as much as I am a teacher; I invest any ego and all energy into shared goals.
I believe firmly that the 21st century challenge is to transform and position organizations for long-term sustainability defined by local prosperity rooted in global consciousness and conscience while simultaneously developing leaders and teams to better align mission and values with lived experience and daily process. It’s a tall order requiring a unique skillset, and I have spent my professional life creating and honing one to achieve organizational evolution for the 21st century and beyond.
In parallel, my award-winning and international interdisciplinary arts practice expands our potential for building dynamic and accountable communities.
Combining these two distinct but complementary forces, enables me to offer tremendous value to leaders, teams, and organizations. I’m driven and inspired by these vibrant collaborations because they manifest best-case potential as daily lived experience. It’s an honor and a privilege to play a key role in making it all happen, exquisitely.
The most valuable aspect of working with Ashley has been the sustainable transformation in how I approach leadership challenges. Beyond the immediate systems improvements (which were substantial), she’s helped me develop a more nuanced understanding of organizational dynamics. Our organization has become more resilient and adaptive, and I have become a more effective leader.
—Jordan Stone, Executive Director, Cottonwood Gulch Expeditions
Be Audacious
Let’s do Good and be well together
Schedule a consultation, and find out how we can help you achieve Exquisite Organization.
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