Miss Liz Serves Ashley T. Brundage Empowering Differences

<p>Empowering Differences Ashley T. Brundage September 3rd, 2026 | 7 PM EST Leadership • Empowerment • Resilience • Human Potential Title: Empowering Differences: Turning Differences Into Leadership Strengths Subtitle:<br />From Homelessness to Leadership — Building Empowerment Through Every Difference. On September 3rd at 7 PM EST, Teatime with Miss Liz welcomes leadership development expert, author, speaker, and CEO of Empowering Differences⁠, Ashley T. Brundage. Ashley brings a remarkable professional and personal journey to the table. After experiencing a year and a half of homelessness, she rebuilt her life, beginning as a part-time bank teller in 2010 and advancing to national vice president working in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at PNC Bank within just a few years. Today, Ashley travels internationally sharing her research and approach to leadership, empowerment, organizational development, and creating environments where human differences can become strengths rather than barriers. Her work through Empowering Differences explores how organizations can move beyond simply talking about empowerment and begin measuring the actions that create it. Her APP of Empowerment examines both authority- and power-driven elements—from confidence, skills and wellness to time, money and actual decision-making power. Ashley is also an author, consultant, researcher and mother of two teenage boys. Her leadership and community work has received recognition in Florida, and her experience has taken her from corporate leadership to consulting and speaking around the world. Her favourite colours are red and purple. Her one word is Resilient. And her T-E-E? Transferring Empowerment Everywhere<br />or<br />Transforming Empowerment Everywhere to minimize their differences and start asking: How can those differences become part of their power? Ashley T. Brundage is an award-winning leadership and empowerment expert, author, speaker, and CEO of Empowering Differences. From overcoming homelessness to becoming a national DEI leader, Ashley transformed adversity into impact. Her work helps individuals and organizations leverage differences, measure empowerment, strengthen leadership, and create meaningful, sustainable change worldwide. Opening: Welcome to Teatime with Miss Liz, where we bring real stories, real experiences, and real conversations to the table. Tonight we’re talking about something every human being carries: Differences. Differences in our experiences.<br />Differences in our identities.<br />Differences in how we lead, communicate, learn, struggle and succeed. My guest, Ashley T. Brundage, has built her work around a powerful idea—that our differences don’t have to divide us. They can become sources of empowerment. Ashley knows transformation personally. After experiencing a year and a half of homelessness, she entered banking as a part-time teller and rose into national leadership, eventually serving as a vice president in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at PNC Bank. Today, she’s the CEO of Empowering Differences, an international speaker, author, researcher and leadership development expert who helps people and organizations understand empowerment in practical measurable ways. She’s also a mom raising two teenage boys while building a company and taking her message around the world. <br />And most importantly, it can be shared. Ashley T. Brundage’s journey—from homelessness to corporate leadership, entrepreneurship and international advocacy—shows how dramatically circumstances can change when opportunity, action, resilience and empowerment intersect. But perhaps the larger lesson is that leadership isn’t about creating a room where everyone becomes the same. It’s about creating a room where people don’t have to erase what makes them different in order to contribute. </p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/teatimewithmissliz?__cft__[0]=AZhOAivLyhDVcDCmBkkqx9muOKDB7zvIOcUSmfReDVmf2Za4RifFbq2UG3AmKOOu3vMt8hFPtvAqUvbityk3u