Ashley Crouch

Ashley Crouch is an award-winning visibility strategist and the founder of Appleseed Communications, the first “one-for-one” agency to exist. For every client served, Appleseed offers a micro-loan to a woman entrepreneur in 21-resource poor nations such as the Philippines, Kenya, Nicaragua, Malawi, and Cambodia.

In 2011, Ashley was on the founding team for the “first NO photoshop magazine”, Verily, and secured 180 media features in 8 months, entirely self-taught. The magazine currently sees one million views per month.

Ashley has written for Forbes, The New York Times, Business Insider, Fast Company, TIME.com, Huffington Post, Refinery29, Bust, and more. She has trained almost two thousand people worldwide on visibility and publicity strategy in the last year.

She speaks on leadership, publicity strategy, and entrepreneurship to audiences at Princeton Univeristy, University of Texas at Austin, Altitude Summit, WeWork, DocuSign, SheWorx, United Healthcare, and Lady Project National Summit.

Ashley and her businesses have been featured in American Express, TODAY.com, Brit & Co., Huffington Post, The Sydney Telegraph, International Business Times, and Darling Magazine. She was a Forbes Under 30 Nominee for 2017 in Social Entrepreneurship.