Ashley Edwards

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Trend Forecaster. Consumer-Obsessive. Insight Junkie. Innovation Guru. Beauty Industry Expert. @ BeautyMatter
Ashley Edwards's Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, United States
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About Ashley Edwards

I'm a seasoned brand strategist and cultural trend expert with 18 years of experience working on some of the world’s biggest brands. My passions are futures thinking, consumer understanding, brand building, innovation, design, and technology.I work at the intersection of human insight, culture, and the future. My “superpower” is the translation of that intelligence into ideas, strategies, stories, and experiences that are desirable to consumers, differentiated from competition, and in step with the unfolding future.

Ashley Edwards's Current Company Details
BeautyMatter

Beautymatter

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Trend Forecaster. Consumer-Obsessive. Insight Junkie. Innovation Guru. Beauty Industry Expert.
Ashley Edwards Work Experience Details
  • Beautymatter
    Content Contributor
    Beautymatter Sep 2023 - Present
    New York , New York , Us
  • The Insight Atelier
    Principal
    The Insight Atelier Feb 2021 - Present
    Independent brand strategy and trend forecasting consultant. Translate category, consumer and cultural intelligence into brand, innovation and creative strategy. Sense and articulate socio-cultural, lifestyle, consumer, design and category trends in emotionally rich, “sticky” ways that directly inform commercial opportunities.Trend reports, concept development, creative ideation, creative strategy, brand strategy, innovation strategy, copy development.EltaMD | Charmin | Bounty | Mike’s Hard Lemonade | Pantene | My Black Is Beautiful | P&G Corporate Function | Olay | Mielle Organics | Salespeak | TULU | Scout | TOMO | Belong
  • Wgsn
    Consultant Director, Mindset
    Wgsn Mar 2024 - Sep 2024
    London, Gb
    WGSN is the world’s leading authority on trend forecasting, and Mindset is the bespoke consulting proposition that compliments its subscription offer. Mindset partners with F100’s in the fashion, beauty, food & beverage, retail and consumer tech spaces to create future-facing strategies that are rooted in evolving consumer sentiment and emergent culture.
  • Landor & Fitch
    Strategy Director
    Landor & Fitch May 2022 - May 2023
    Led high-level brand design and innovation initiatives in the beauty, food and beverage, household care and healthcare spaces. New brand creation, brand positioning, brand architecture, design strategy, naming strategy. Starbucks | Downy | Sealy | Schwan’s | S.C. Johnson | Tupperware | Zoom | Johnson & Johnson | Febreze | Mucinex | Biofreeze
  • Lpk
    Strategy & Insights Director
    Lpk Apr 2013 - Feb 2021
    Cincinnati, Ohio, Us
    Translated cultural, consumer and category insights into idea conceptualization, product innovation and brand strategy for global brands. Led the design and delivery of strategic foresight engagements.Created LPK's Insights practice and led LPK's Trend practice: shaped new approaches, managed client relationships, developed externally-facing selling tools, and led internal training programs.Launched LPK's Beauty 555, an insight and innovation tool leveraging a network of influencers, industry insiders and LPK brand builders to imagine and articulate the now, near, and next of beauty.Trend forecasting, brand positioning, brand architecture, design strategy, naming strategy, new brand creation. Olay | Pantene | Herbal Essences | Kiwi Botanicals | JM Smucker | Kellogg | Always/Whisper | Tampax | Blue Diamond | Pampers | Fifth Third Bank | Gillette | The Clorox Company | Pernod Ricard | RW Knudsen | Folgers
  • Lpk
    Design Director, Lpk Trends
    Lpk Oct 2009 - Mar 2013
    Cincinnati, Ohio, Us
    Led brand design and trend forecasting engagements across a range of CPG categories. Built organic revenue. Developed new brand design workshop methodologies. Managed, directed and grew junior team members.
  • Procter & Gamble
    Senior Scientist, Beauty R&D
    Procter & Gamble Sep 2007 - Sep 2009
    Cincinnati, Ohio, Us
    Translated a skill set in design and fashion/trend thinking into a role developing deep consumer insights and feeding upstream product development across the shampoo, treatments, hair color and salon professional categories. Translated trend inspiration and niche/early adopter consumer insights into innovation pipeline strategy, segmentation models, insight frameworks and creative conceptualization. Generated and articulated deep consumer insights and unmet needs in emotionally rich, "sticky" ways with the use of new and existing qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Technical product development for shampoo category. Generated trend reports broadly utilized across P&G Beauty & Grooming.
  • Procter & Gamble
    Scientist, Beauty R&D
    Procter & Gamble Jul 2005 - Sep 2007
    Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Ashley Edwards Skills

Concept Development Trend Forecasting Beauty Industry Brand Development Creative Direction Branding And Identity Customer Insight Strategy Creative Strategy Art Direction Design Strategy Packaging Design Consumer Insight Qualitative Research Brand Strategy Packaging Marketing Research Brand Management

Ashley Edwards Education Details

  • University Of Cincinnati
    University Of Cincinnati
    Fashion Design & Product Development

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