Bruce Ashford Email & Phone Number

As CEO of The Ashford Agency, Bruce helps leaders of faith-based nonprofits and businesses leverage slim budgets to reap prodigious results. His approach to reaching audiences gives you the ultimate advantage, helping customers understand the benefits of your products, services, ideas, or mission. For nonprofit organizations, Bruce helps CEOs with the unique challenge of communicating to dual audiences: donors and participants. By clarifying your message and putting it into a simple framework, you are able to boost visibility and revenue through website messaging, lead generators, social media, earned media, books, articles, and other channels. For businesses, he helps CEOs clarify their message, turn it into a simple marketing framework, and build a highly effective sales funnel. Once you have a clear, compelling message, we leverage that message to create marketing collateral, give better speeches, enhance your sales script, broaden the sales funnel, and positively impact the world. Bruce has extensive experience in leadership, communications, and messaging. He served for 11 years as the Senior VP at a large nonprofit organization with 400+ employees.Bruce is a successful author, having published nine books and hundreds of articles as a regular writer for FOX News Opinion (2016-18), the Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal (2017-19), First Things Magazine (2021-present), and other outlets. He has also ghostwritten a dozen books and hundreds of articles and opinion pieces for CEOS and thought leaders in various sectors. He has worked as a speechwriter and adviser for elected officials and political campaigns at the Congressional and Gubernatorial levels. Bruce holds a B.A. in Mass Communications, a Master's degree, and a Ph.D. in Theological Studies.

Wake Forest, Nc, Us

I served as the chief academic officer of the Seminary. As Provost, I was responsible for the development, coordination, and implementation of the curriculum, and the instructional program, as well as Faculty recruitment, evaluation and retention. As Dean of the Faculty, I served as a liaison between the faculty members and the President.

Wake Forest, Nc, Us

As Dean of the College, I was responsible for overseeing the affairs of The College at Southeastern. The Dean is responsible for representing the college to its various publics, collaborating with the Associate Deans to administrate academic affairs and institutional effectiveness, serving as a liaison between college faculty and the administration, serving as a liaison between the students and the institution, administering the college budget, collaborating with faculty and administration to identify faculty needs and make faculty acquisitions, and collaborating with Institutional Advancement for the purposes of fundraising and recruiting.

Wake Forest, Nc, Us

As Director of the Center for Great Commission Studies, I was responsible for facilitating the mission programs of the seminary, mission mobilization for churches and students, and mission research. I was able to lead trips to ~50 countries; during these trips, my students and I were able to learn about various peoples and cultures while teaching about Christ and the gospel.

Wake Forest, Nc, Us

As Assistant Professor of Philosophy and History of Ideas, I was responsible for guiding freshmen and sophomores through a reading regimen which included books written by some of the greatest minds in Western history, including philosophers (e.g. Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Marx), theologians (e.g. Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin), literary giants (e.g. Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare), and historians (e.g. Herodotus, Thucydides).

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Systematic Theology

Master Of Divinity (M.Div.)

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