Meredith Ashby is an experienced leadership consultant at Heidrick & Struggles. She assesses and coaches senior-level executives to supplement clients’ efforts in leadership development, talent management, and succession planning. She has worked across industries and has assessed and coached executives including CEO candidates, business heads and across C-suite functional leadership.
From 2004 to 2006, Meredith worked in the firm’s CEO & Board Practice, assisting with senior-level searches across a variety of industry and functional areas, but namely at the board and CEO/president level in financial services, consumer package goods and services, and higher education.
Prior to 2004, Meredith served in a variety of communications and marketing roles for the firm and its vice chairmen. In this capacity, she authored and produced numerous thought leadership articles, including more than a dozen that appeared in BusinessWeek magazine, and she co-authored the book Leaders Talk Leadership, which was published by Oxford University Press and sold more than 55,000 copies worldwide (including rights). She also created a centerpiece journal on human capital issues for the World Economic Forum’s 31st Annual Meeting in Davos.
Meredith joined Heidrick & Struggles in 1995 as North America business analyst to support the region’s business development and marketing activities.
Before joining Heidrick & Struggles, Meredith was research director for American City Business Journals’ Atlanta Business Chronicle. Earlier, she was a research analyst covering the cellular phone and cable television industries for Kagan Research, a media, entertainment and communications research firm that publishes investment newsletters and financial analyses.