Ashley Brings the Questions Nobody Else is Asking - Right Onto Your Stage
Keynotes, workshops, and panels for marketing or faith-based conferences, business events, and entrepreneurship communities.
Stop Performing, Start Connecting:
Why Your Marketing Feels Like My Second Marriage
Most marketing advice tells business owners to show up more, post more, and invest more. Ashley Simmons tells audiences something different: stop performing for your marketing and start connecting with your customers. In this energetic, honest, and often hilarious keynote, Ashley introduces the Performance Tax — the hidden cost that accumulates when marketing is designed to impress rather than convert — and gives audiences a practical framework for auditing their own marketing authenticity.
Who it’s for: Business owners, marketing professionals, entrepreneurs, and leaders who are investing in marketing but not seeing the results they expect.
Key Takeaways:
How to calculate your own Performance Tax
The 5 diagnostic questions that reveal where marketing is leaking revenue
How to rebuild a marketing strategy around connection instead of performance
Why authentic marketing converts better — with real client data to prove it
Additional topics:
The Double CMO: How to Lead Marketing in Your Business AND Your Life
Strategy Before Tactics: Why Most Marketing Plans Fail Before They Start
AI Marketing Without Losing Your Voice: A Practical Framework
From Guessing to Growing: How to Build a Revenue-Driven Marketing System
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Ashley’s Story
2024 became the year Ashley stopped waiting for the right moment and built it herself. After two decades of marketing experience and a career that took her from local campaigns to national strategy, she walked away from the corporate path to launch S3 Growth Agency — driven by a conviction that small business owners across this country deserve real strategic support, not just tactics.
What makes Ashley unforgettable on stage is the same thing that makes her exceptional in a boardroom: she has a natural ease and presence that immediately puts audiences at ease — and then challenges everything they thought they knew. She takes the hard lessons of building a business, raising three daughters solo, and betting on herself, and transforms them into messages that leave audiences ready to take action. Boldly. Courageously. Just like she did.
