Who We Are

Ashley B. Stewart has been a trusted coach, facilitator and advisor to more than 2,000 executives across the for-profit, nonprofit, and government sectors. What makes Ashley distinctive is his ability to fully tailor leadership solutions that harness leaders’ authentic power, deepen their self-awareness and interrupt unconscious patterns that compromise their effectiveness and performance in their professional and personal lives.

In addition to founding The Corvian Group, Ashley serves as a senior advisor for transformational leadership and race consciousness subject matter expert with McKinsey & Company. Most recently, he led as the executive director of talent and organizational development for 11,000 staff of Baltimore City Public Schools to sustain the culture to eliminate the predictability of student outcomes by race. In prior roles with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education, Ashley co-designed and launched national leadership capacity building programs and philanthropic initiatives focused on public-private investments, international exchanges, community development and K-12 education reform.

Ashley earned a bachelor of arts in psychology from Morehouse College, a master in public policy from Harvard University, a certificate in leadership coaching from Georgetown University and a master in education leadership from The Broad Center. He holds practitioner certifications in Courageous Conversations About Race™, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Emotional Intelligence (EQ-i 2.0).