Ashley Griffith
Ashley Griffith · Emerging tech strategy, consulting & coaching

Find the signal in emerging tech. Then scale what works.

I've spent more than ten years leading innovation at Charles Schwab, Cisco and TTEC, including building and running innovation accelerators: finding where new technology can solve real customer problems, testing ideas fast, and scaling the ones that move results. Now I bring that same playbook for AI and blockchain to companies of every size, and to people who want to learn it themselves.”

— Ashley Griffith
10+ yrsLeading strategy, innovation and transformation
3Enterprise innovation roles: Schwab, Cisco, TTEC
~25%Productivity gain from an AI transformation
$100M+Business unit owned end to end
Experience at AmmalgamTTECCiscoCharles SchwabDaVitaBoston Consulting Group
Services

Help for wherever you are with emerging tech

Owners & small teams

Small Business AI Consulting

Practical AI that saves your team time this month.

What's included
  • Find the tasks AI can take off your plate first
  • Set up the right tools, systems and automations, without long contracts
  • Train your team so it sticks
Leadership teams

Emerging Tech Strategy

Find where AI fits, prove it, then scale it.

What's included
  • Use-case discovery and prioritization
  • Experiments, business cases and investment gates
  • Governance to scale, pivot or stop
Founders & asset owners

Blockchain Advisory

Tokenization, digital assets and Web3, grounded in real launches.

What's included
  • Tokenization and real-world asset structures
  • Token economics and liquidity modeling
  • Go-to-market and community building
Individuals, leaders, students

AI Coaching

Get confident with AI, at your pace, on your real work.

What's included
  • Hands-on sessions with leading AI tools
  • Workflows built around your job
  • Executive briefings for non-technical leaders
Approach

The innovation accelerator playbook, sized for you

The same path I've used to move ideas from whiteboard to business results at Schwab, Cisco and TTEC. A small business might move through it in a few weeks; an enterprise portfolio runs it continuously.

Signal. Find what matters

1 · Discover

Start from the customer problem

Use design thinking to understand the pain and map where AI or blockchain could actually help.

2 · Prioritize

Pick the few worth doing

Score each idea on value, feasibility and fit, and choose what to test first.

Scale. Prove it, then grow it

3 · Experiment

Test fast and cheaply

Run focused pilots with clear success measures, and validate the business case with real results.

4 · Scale

Grow what works

Build what works into everyday operations, and stop or pivot what doesn't.

Selected work

Experiments that moved the needle

Highlights from more than ten years in innovation, strategy and emerging technology, across financial services, healthcare, enterprise tech, SaaS and digital assets.

AI

Use cases, adoption, builds

~25%
Productivity improvement
Independent consulting · Family office

AI transformation for a family office

Led an AI transformation across the firm's advisory workflows, delivering cost reduction and revenue expansion alongside a roughly 25% productivity gain.

AI strategyWorkflow redesignAdoption
TTEC · Innovation Accelerator

An enterprise AI and emerging tech portfolio

Led the accelerator's portfolio, evaluating AI and other technologies, finding high-value enterprise use cases, and moving them from experiment through business case to scale decisions.

AIPortfolioLean
Hands-on build

AI automation agent

Built a social media automation agent in Python on a large language model API, handling drafting and posting end to end.

PythonLLM APIsAutomation

Blockchain

Tokenization, DeFi, on-chain

Independent consulting · Real estate

Tokenized capital for real estate

Designed blockchain-based capital structures for a fix-and-flip business, including tokenized SPVs, fractional equity and on-chain real-world-asset debt, to improve capital efficiency and investor liquidity.

TokenizationRWACapital design
Ammalgam · DeFi

Taking a DeFi protocol toward launch

Turned the design of a new protocol combining lending and trading into a product, liquidity and ecosystem strategy, with financial and incentive models and investor materials.

DeFiLiquidityGTM
Token project

Token economics model

Built a 10-year price and reserve scenario model for a token on the Internet Computer, covering fixed supply, burn and staking reserves, liquidity and cross-chain distribution.

TokenomicsICPModeling
Hands-on analysis

On-chain analysis

Traced wallet activity across Ethereum and Solana using block explorers and their APIs to map how funds moved between addresses.

EthereumSolanaForensics

Innovation & growth

Accelerators, strategy, experiments

Charles Schwab · Innovation

Building an accelerator in financial services

Helped build and scale an accelerator that moved ideas for the investor experience through rapid experimentation and investment gates, while shifting teams to agile ways of working.

ExperimentationAgileFintech
Cisco · Office of the CTO

Emerging tech strategy for a CTO

Evaluated emerging technologies for the enterprise collaboration portfolio and turned them into product strategy, investment priorities and executive recommendations.

Tech strategyProduct
Contact

Let's find your signal.

Based in the Denver area, working with clients anywhere. Tell me what you're trying to do and I'll suggest where to start.

Phone720.660.7908
Emailashley@ashleygriffith.com
BasedDenver, Colorado