Speaking
Let me inspire your audience to approach their lives with more intention through practical strategies and tangible takeaways.
Inspire your audience to approach their lives a little differently
Whether you want a tactical workshop on productivity strategies or to inspire your audience through my unique path and approach to entrepreneurship, I will provide a thoughtful, engaging, and impactful talk that will stick with your attendees.
My talks are customized to your audience to give them different practical takeaways and different ways to approach how they manage their time.
Sessions can be delivered in person or virtually.
Some of my favourite topics include:
- Productivity and calming chaos (includes topics such as decision-making, prioritization, focus, boundary-setting, email and meeting management, etc.).
- My experiences with my husband's cancer, living with multiple sclerosis, and learning resilience.
- How to build a better meeting culture and run more effective meetings.
- How to overcome impostor syndrome.
Looking for something different? I am happy to create a custom talk!
Recent Testimonials
"We worked with Ashley to provide training to our entire team on productivity and time management. We really value the expertise and information that Ashley was able to give our team. We walked away with a common language for everyone to use and each of our team members felt empowered to own their productivity and set boundaries where needed. Ashley was great to deal with, very responsive, asked the right questions to determine our needs and was very collaborative."
- Joe Di Fabio, Chief of Staff at Fuse Consulting
“We booked a Calm your Chaos session with Ashley to introduce our team to time management and productivity best practices – but the session was so much more than that. Ashley inspired us to become more mindful about how we spend our time, and to be intentional about how we assess urgency and priority. As a group, we walked away with new agreements on how we can improve our meetings and decision-making, and we look forward to putting those agreements into action. Our time with Ashley was well spent, and we have many new strategies to try!”
- Danielle L’Heureux, Chief Operating Officer at Alberta Hotel & Lodging Association
Past speaking engagements and interviews
This list includes speaking engagements and interviews Ashley has done for her other businesses, Code and Effect and Tadum, as well as Ashley Janssen Consulting.
2024
- Alberta Housing & Lodging Association - Calm Your Chaos Workshop
- Fuse Consulting - Calm Your Chaos Workshop
- Venture Mentoring Service of Alberta - Calm Your Chaos Workshop
- MNP - How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome session for International Women's Day
- University of Alberta, Threshold Impact Venture Mentoring Service - Calm Your Chaos Workshop
2023
- National Institute of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (US) - Q&A on Productivity with a Focus on Intentionality
- Higher Landing, Grizzly Den - Career Mentoring Panelist
- University of Alberta, Threshold Impact Venture Mentoring Service - Calm Your Chaos Workshop
- British Columbia Society of Veterinarians - Intentional Time Management and Burnout Prevention Webinar
- G2V Optics - How to Run Effective Meetings Workshop
- University of Alberta, Alumni Relations - Calm Your Chaos Workshop
- Grasslands Public Schools - Preventing and Managing Burnout for Teachers, Professional Development Session
- University of Alberta Women in Business - Unconventional Journey to Success Panel
- HuffPost Interview - 9 Quick Ways To Refocus If You're Distracted At Work
- HuffPost Interview - Here's How To Have A Calmer Sunday Night
- The Amanda Wagner Podcast Interview- Calm the chaos with boundaries, creating space, and rethinking reciprocation with guest Ashley Janssen
“Ashley’s virtual presentation for our Growth Accelerator was curated to the needs of our cohort who were having challenges with scope creep, delegating and time management. It was exactly what these business founders needed to create the time in their day to do the real proactive work to move their businesses forward; the work they WANT to be doing. Thank you, Ashley!”
— Stephanie Horner, Manager of ATBx Accelerator
2022
- Twitter Spaces - Burnout and Managing Transitions with Colin Chung and Samantha Demers
- GoSolo Interview - Calm Your Chaos with Ashley Janssen
- College of Veterinarians of Ontario - Calm Your Chaos Workshop
- University of Alberta Threshold Impact Venture Mentoring Service - 4-Part Productivity Series
- Amplify Your Business - Episode 83: Calming Chaos Interview
- Women With Purpose Summit - Calm your Chaos: How to Set Time, Energy, and Attention Boundaries Webinar
- Entrepreneurs of Edmonton Podcast - Controlling Your Chaos with Ashley Janssen Interview
- Alberta Women Entrepreneurs - Calm your Chaos: Setting Boundaries with Your Time and Energy in Business Webinar
- Canadian Society of Association Executives Alberta Network (CSAE) - Setting Up 2022 For Success: How to Reflect on the Past Year and Set Goals For the Year Ahead Webinar
- Edmonton Business Association - The Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs Panel
2021
- ATB - Calming your Chaos: Decision Making, Prioritization, and Time-Blocking your Ideal Week Webinar
- Be Her'd with Hannah Wilson - Instagram Live Interview
- A Cup of Confidence Podcast with Erin Rector - Overcoming Adversity as an Entrepreneur with Ashley Janssen
Canadian Network of Agencies for Regulation (CNAR) - Creating a Culture of Calm in your Organization Webinar - Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE) - Keeping Pace with Technology: 5 Tactics to Evaluate Where You Stand and Where You Need to Go Webinar
- Association TRENDS - Choosing the Right AMS Webinar
- ATB X Accelerator - Calm Your Chaos: Prioritization, Focus, Self-care, Availability, and Imagining your Ideal Week Webinar
- Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE) - Tête-à-Tête - How to evaluate where you stand and where you need to go Virtual Roundtable
2020
- YEG Tech Sales Meetup - The Changing Face of Tech Sales During COVID-19 Virtual Panel
- ATB X Accelerator - Bring Structure to Chaos - Part 2: Pandemic Edition - Goal Setting, Task Management, Decision Making, and Self-Care Webinar
- ATB X Accelerator - Bring Structure to Chaos - Part 1: Email, Calendar, and Meeting Tactics
2019
- ATB X Accelerator - Bring Structure to Your Chaos: Productivity, Organization and Time Management Tactics Workshop
- Business and Professional Women of Edmonton (BPW) - Time Mastery Workshop
- The Meeting Leadership Podcast Interview - How Being Intentional With Your Time Helps Make You A Better Leader
- The Meeting Leadership Podcast Interview - Effective Meeting Agenda Software That Gets Results
- Digital Project Managers (DPM) Meetup - Running Better Meetings Presentation & Tadum Demo
- TEC Edmonton - Bring Structure to Your Chaos: Productivity, Organization and Time Management Tactics Workshop
- Jobber - Breaking Barriers in STEM Panel
- University of Alberta Applied Leadership Program - Resiliency After Failure Session: Getting Back on Track
- TEC Edmonton - Overcoming Impostor Syndrome Workshop
- ScaleUp YEG - Scaling with Technology Panel: When & How to Leverage Tech for Growth
2018
- University of Alberta ArtsWorks Conference - Careers in Creative and Innovative Fields Panel
- CBC Centre Stage - Startup Week - Meet the Founders Panel
- CBC Edmonton AM - Startup Week - Chat about Tadum Meeting Agendas and Meeting Minutes
- StartUp Edmonton - Launch Party 9 - Tadum Launch
- Rainforest Lunch Without Lunch - Entrepreneur Profile
- From KO'd to Knockout - Business Struggles Panel
- Digital Project Managers (DPM) Meetup - Personal Productivity Hacks
- TEC Edmonton - Lab2Biz Panel - Making the Transition from Research to Entrepreneurship
- The Ace Class - Babes Who Brunch Keynote Speaker - Learning Resilience
- The Ace Class - Paving Your Own Path to Success post
- Edmonton Public Library - Lessons from Women in Leadership Table Host
- ATB Financial & NAIT Mawji Centre - #TheStruggleIsReal Panel
- Canada Learning Code & DiscoverE - Alberta Girls Engineering & Technology Summit - Female Leaders Brunch
- University of Alberta - Alberta Student Leadership Summit Panel
2017
- That’s So Maven - Podcast Interview
- Bootkik - Video Interview - Running a Tech Company with No Technology Background
- Medicine Hat College Workshop, Global Entrepreneurship Week - Building Your E-Commerce Business
- Business Networking International (BNI) Workshop - Battling the Culture of Busy – Tactics to Manage Your Time with Intention
- Alberta Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) Workshop - Building Your E-Commerce Business
- Alberta Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) Workshop - Battling the Culture of Busy – Tactics to Manage Your Time with Intention (Edmonton and Calgary Peerspark groups)
- Alberta Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) Workshop - Battling the Culture of Busy – Tactics to Manage Your Time with Intention (Internal Team)
- Alberta Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) Workshop - Introduction to E-Commerce: How to Get Started
- Rotary Club of Edmonton West - Intentional Networking
- ATB Entrepreneur SpeakEasy - How do you keep your customers coming back for more?
2013-2016
- 2016 - Digital Project Managers Meetup - Know Yourself, Manage Better
- 2016 - DisruptHR YEG - Culture = Cash
- 2016 - Storytelling & Time Management: Tips, Tools & Tactics - Workshop
- 2015 - UX Camp 2015 - A Framework for Deciding the How After the What (QSRT)
- 2015 - #girlbossyeg Panel - Panel of Albertan women in leadership roles
- 2015 - University of Alberta Faculty of Arts Q&A - Q & A with Ashley Janssen
- 2015 - Alberta Cancer Foundation Guest Blog - Bathroom Cries and Snack Machine Runs
- 2015 - Edmonton Business Network - Creating a Foundation for Growth
- 2014 - Capital Ideas Panel - Making the transition from freelancer to entrepreneur
- 2013 - Alberta Venture Lunch With - Two family-focused business minds discuss the need to delegate without abdicating