Meet Ashlie
Communication Professor, Public Speaking Coach and Marriage Officiant.
Hello! I'm Ashlie.
​In the 3rd grade I entered myself in the PS 26 story telling contest. As an 8 year old who feared very little, I thought this would be a piece of cake. After all, I was a very confident child who would talk to anyone willing to listen. This is when I learned that public speaking and conversation were two very different things. The day of the contest, I stuttered, I shook, I stumbled, I lost. Badly.
Whether you are 9 or 90, public speaking is something that most people struggle with and fear. But if practiced and approached from a different angle, it can actually become quite a fun and empowering experience. It just takes practice and a good teacher. This is where I come in! I am here to help. As a fully recovered nervous speaker, I can provide you with the skills needed to deliver a speech with a small amount of fear and an enormous amount of confidence.
My work in the field began in 2011, when I won a graduate fellowship which would place me inside the college classroom. It was there I found my knack: Helping people get over their fear while teaching them to deliver fun, creative and thought provoking messages. Since then I have taught at a variety of colleges such as Hofstra University, Montclair State University and Marymount Manhattan College. I currently work as a full time tenured faculty member for the City University of New York teaching Speech Communication.
I began my coaching business back in 2017 and since then I have worked with a variety of clients from various industries such as Google, Frame.io and the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. My unique approach of incorporating applied learning pedagogy into my coaching allows my clients to not only become stronger more confident speakers, but also gain a better understanding for how communication works.
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In 2019, I took my love for speech writing and my love for love and started officiating weddings and consulting on wedding vows. It may seem like a stretch from public speaking, but, at the end of the day, they all focus on the same thing- using words to best convey a message.
