With more than 20 years of R&D driving the creation of exceptional tools and services, we support people and teams to empower themselves and others 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 Founder
Exquisite Knowing was founded by Ashley David, MFA/PhD. Ashley has lived and worked on four continents in fields as diverse as tech, financial services, higher education, K-12, marketing, diversity & inclusion, filmmaking, art, construction, and sail training and oceanographic research. She has earned degrees from Stanford University, New York University, University of Michigan, and The University of Georgia. Exquisite Knowing emerged from this diverse landscape as a system and suite of tools to explore and solve for questions related to social, economic, and environmental justice and sustainability.
How she works for you…
Ashley rolls up her sleeves so clients can close the gap between mission statements and on-the-ground experience and deliverables. She partners with you to tweak systems, structures, and everyday practices so you can yield micro-empowerment that accrues and catalyzes mutual and reciprocal exchange. Transformation follows with paradigm-shifting successes that reflect your priorities. She helps you do what you do better by combining anthropological training, creativity practice, and a perspective cultivated across diverse industries, sectors, and cultural contexts.
Her other hat…
Ashley is currently based on the coast of Maine, where, in addition to Exquisite Knowing, she works as an interdisciplinary artist and is the editor and publisher of FED, an online magazine and collection of musicians, artists, writers, growers, gleaners, cooks, and craftspeople serving up nourishment for body, brain, and soul.
Poetry, prose, and project-based art have appeared in publications including: Pinhole Poetry, Web Conjunctions, Hyperallergic, The Offending Adam, Black Sun Lit, Alimentum, The Greensboro Review, Hanging Loose, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, The Southern Review, Verse, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. Scholarship has been anthologized, and she has performed and installed work in locations across the U.S. and overseas.
If everything you do every day is art, how do you perform your life?
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