Founder & CEO
Ashley Soden
Strategic direction & client priorities
Ashley leads CORE’s business direction and the conversations that connect client priorities to defined engagements across the firm’s practice areas.
Meet AshleyAbout CORE
A firm built around
your growth priorities.
CORE Consulting connects strategic direction, specialist expertise, and coordinated execution across grants and incentives, operations, growth, and advisory. The starting point is the business outcome you need—not a requirement to buy every service.
Book a discovery callOur model
Strategy and execution.
Independently or together.
Some organizations need a strategic roadmap for their own team to carry forward. Others need implementation capacity, an outsourced function, or continuing specialist support. CORE scopes those needs around defined deliverables, responsibilities, and delivery requirements.
Growth-as-a-Service provides an ongoing way to connect relevant practice areas as priorities evolve. A focused project can be the entry point; additional work is agreed explicitly rather than assumed.
Our delivery standard
Specialist contribution.
Shared coordination.
CORE assembles specialist teams around the needs of each engagement. Project coordination and leadership oversight connect the work to a clear plan, named owners, progress tracking, and review checkpoints.
Deliverables, scope boundaries, resources, feedback requirements, and definitions of done establish what completion means. Proposed changes are evaluated against the agreed engagement before new work is authorized.
CORE leadership
Leadership direction.
Operational oversight.
Head of Operations
Christine Martindale
Operations & coordinated delivery
Christine oversees CORE’s operating coordination, delivery standards, and the alignment of project plans, specialist resources, and agreed client work.
Meet ChristineOur specialist network
The expertise your engagement needs.
CORE’s specialist network supports funding research, business analysis, operational architecture, implementation, commercial workflows, executive support, project coordination, and production and quality review.
Capabilities are brought together around the agreed client need. Specialists contribute defined work within a coordinated delivery model.
Working with CORE
Bring your next priority into focus.
Discuss the outcome you need, the work already underway, and where CORE could support the next step.
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A focused conversation. A clear next step.