Marketing Advisory
Transformative leadership from someone who’s led the team and owned the outcome.
HartMind Co. works with consumer brands that need experienced marketing leadership without the full-time hire.
You’ve reached a point where your business has outgrown your marketing…
Marketing activity without the bigger picture. Massive business growth without understanding key drivers. A team with the skillset not activated properly. The gap between your brand and business is quietly costing you…
HartMind Co. helps growth-stage companies navigate the transition from scrappy start-up to large-scale brand, turning strategic vision into revenue-driving outcomes.
Specializing in culture brands leveling-up their marketing, we’ll be your strategic partner in building a brand around people, not pipelines. We’ll find clarity in the chaos—and we’ll have fun doing it.
Our Services
Embedded senior marketing leadership for companies needing inspiration, strategic direction, team management, and executional oversight without the full-time hire. Operating as a part of your team through times of growth or transition, you’ll notice more ease in your day with a leader who shows up with confidence, discernment and empathy.
A focused two-day engagement for leadership teams navigating a specific decision — product direction, a brand pivot, new revenue streams, or content calendar planning are just a few examples. Bring your messiest problems and we’ll sort through it using intuition and acumen to find clarity together.
Strategic counsel on integrated marketing plans, brand positioning, audience insights, launch planning, product roadmaps and beyond. This is revenue generating, project-based work driven by outcomes. Put our brains to work on your biggest challenges.
Paid, owned and earned media strategies that propel your brand’s momentum and deliver on KPIs that matter most. Whether you’re starting from scratch or scaling $100M+ budgets, we’ll provide our deep expertise and oversight to your next campaign.
Ashley Hartley, Founder | Los Angeles, CA
About
"I'm so happy you're in this meeting."
I hear this often in high-stakes meetings—from peers, colleagues, and executives alike. People feel a sense of relief that a grounded, trusted partner is in the room.
My steadiness comes from both my years of marketing leadership and my personal practice. Beyond my experience leading and influencing organizations through pivotal moments, I meditate and spend dedicated time in nature to stay grounded and attuned to what really matters. This combination has taught me how to inspire clarity and confidence across executives and teams.
I'm as comfortable with data as I am with intuition, and I don't treat those two things as being in conflict. As a seasoned leader with a wide-ranging, curious background (musician, forest bathing guide, and public speaker among the roles I've worn), I’m able to walk into almost any room—messy, high-stakes, or brand-new—and help people make decisions fast.
That approach is backed by nearly 20 years inside the world's most iconic brands, from start-up mode organizations to Fortune 500 corporations. I've led global media at Beats by Dre at Apple, run growth and product at CHANI astrology app, and spent my foundational marketing years in paid media, both at agencies and in-house. I've guided product roadmap decisions at a tech start-up, stabilized an international marketing org through a sudden leadership transition, and was part of the team that helped launched one of the world’s most storied brands into the stratosphere.
I'm currently taking on a small number of fractional and advisory engagements and would love to hear from you.
In parallel to HartMind Co, Ashley is the founder of Wildsong Nature Immersion — an ANFT-certified forest therapy practice based in Topanga Canyon, California. Corporate retreats, seasonal immersions, and off-sites for leaders and teams ready to slow down, recalibrate, and build relationship with the more-than-human world.