Mrs. Ashley Muse

After holding leadership roles in nonprofits, corporate sustainability, and philanthropy, Ashley Muse founded Muse Design and Consulting to help purpose-driven organizations amplify impact at the intersection of health, climate, and nature. With 20 years of experience in real estate, she has worked across scales, integrating sustainability and resilience into buildings, master plans, and portfolios. Her work now extends beyond the built environment to advance climate and nature-based strategies in land conservation, agriculture, fashion, and tourism. With a background in architecture, Ashley has two decades of experience on green buildings and urban redevelopment projects across the country in the role of consultant and owner/developer. Her project work spans scales of design (including interiors, core and shell architecture, infrastructure, and mixed-use urban planning), in a range of typologies (from mixed use to commercial to housing), pursuing impact through different system lenses (carbon, water, ecology, IEQ, public health, climate adaptation). Over the last few years Ashley has established her own consultancy where she is applying her strategy and facilitation skills beyond the building industry to advance place and nature based climate initiatives in other fields including land conservation, fashion and apparel, agriculture and food systems, and travel and tourism.