CORE leadership / Founder & CEO

Ashley Soden

Ashley Soden is the Founder & CEO of CORE Consulting. She leads the firm’s business direction and client discovery conversations, connecting organizational priorities to the right entry point across grants and incentives, operations, growth, and advisory.

Founder & CEO

Strategic direction.
Defined client priorities.

Ashley’s work brings funding strategy, operational planning, and executive advisory into the same conversation: what is the organization trying to accomplish, what is holding it back, and what support is needed to move forward?

CORE’s model combines leadership direction with specialist expertise and coordinated delivery. Clients can engage the firm for strategy, execution, or a defined combination of both.

Education & professional development

  • B.S. in Behavioral Neuroscience, Temple University.
  • Harvard VPAL Cybersecurity certificate, April 2025.
Working as a firm

Leadership and specialists.
One coordinated engagement.

CORE’s four practice areas connect funding, operating capacity, commercial priorities, and leadership decisions. Every engagement defines the scope, outputs, resources, and responsibilities needed for the work.

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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.