About
Ashley
Boone
Founder, The TBD Strategy
People need people.
That belief is where everything begins.
More than a decade working inside healthcare staffing taught Ashley one thing above everything else: sustainable success is never just about the strategy. It is about the people willing to carry it.
She started in this industry because she believed the work had real impact.
Over more than a decade supporting healthcare staffing organizations and workforce teams, Ashley worked across multiple levels of the business, from day-to-day execution to strategic growth. She has sat with leadership under pressure to perform and with teams who felt disconnected from the decisions shaping their work.
That proximity to both sides is what makes her perspective different. She does not just look at what should work on paper. She looks at how it will actually function across teams, processes, and real-world constraints. Those two things are rarely the same.
In industries like healthcare staffing, where every relationship matters and every placement has a downstream effect on patient care, she never lost sight of why the work matters. We will all have a family member, or one day be a patient ourselves. That reality stays with her.
"You should never ask your team to do something you would not be willing to step in and do yourself."A belief Ashley was taught early and has never let go of
The most overlooked gap in organizations
is not a process problem.
It is a proximity problem.
As leaders progress, their focus naturally shifts toward growth, strategy, and revenue. That shift is necessary. But it can quietly create distance from the realities teams are facing, from the friction within processes, and from the people doing the work every day.
When employees bring forward concerns or ideas, it rarely comes from a place of negativity. More often, it comes from a place of care. Most employees take pride in their work. They want to improve things. They want to be part of something bigger than a job description.
When that input is dismissed or misunderstood, something begins to shift. Over time, even the most engaged people start to lose confidence in their own voice. And when that happens, organizations lose something far more costly than efficiency. They lose the people who actually cared.
Built for both sides of
the room.
The TBD Strategy exists because most consulting firms build from one side of the organization and call it complete. They understand leadership's vision or they understand the team's reality. Rarely both.
Ashley built TBD around the belief that the most valuable opportunities for improvement almost always live in the gap between those two perspectives. When leaders gain honest visibility into what is actually happening, and when employees feel genuinely heard, alignment becomes possible. And from alignment, real progress can begin.
This is not about generic playbooks or short-term fixes. It is about designing solutions that are practical, human, and built to hold. Success, to Ashley, is not just measured by growth. It is measured by the kind of impact that growth creates.
"If we can create small shifts in how organizations think, lead, and support their teams, those changes have the potential to make a lasting difference."Ashley Boone, Founder
Worth saying plainly.
Not every organization is the right fit. That is not a limitation. It is how we protect the integrity of the work.
Not transactional
We are not here to hand over a report and move on. Every engagement is a partnership, and partnerships require trust, time, and genuine investment from both sides.
Not one-size-fits-all
Generic playbooks look good on paper and fail in practice. No two organizations are the same, and no solution we design ever is either.
Not short-term focused
We are not interested in fixes that produce immediate results at the expense of what comes next. Sustainable progress takes longer and matters more.
Not the right fit for everyone
We do not take on work where there is no genuine willingness to listen, adapt, and improve. Meaningful change requires openness, not just intention.
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that's where we start.
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