Ashley Patterson serves as the AVP-enterprise training and talent management at Grange Insurance, where she oversees and fosters the associates’ learning, growth and development efforts. Grange Insurance was established in 1935 and is based out of Columbus, Ohio, with over 1,200 employees, over $3 billion in assets and more than $1 billion in annual revenue. As a Columbus native, Ashley attended the Ohio State University, where she obtained her degree in business management and human resources.
Ashley joined Grange in 2009, and has served in seven leadership positions, where she continuously pushes herself to take on new and different challenges. Due to her record of delivering on results and building high-performing teams, her prior roles include serving as human resources business partnerships lead, a director of organizational effectiveness and strategy, and owning the talent management, organizational change and development functions. She has been able to execute on the vision of a connected performance management system and fostering a psychologically safe learning culture by putting people first. She has increased the ROI of training with a focus on growing the business through the growth of associates. Ashley has a strong drive to push herself and team to think creatively and be intellectually curious about how they will problem solve, utilize new and upcoming technologies to meet and align with business goals, and create a passion in others for developing on their learning journey.
Ashley is active in her community and giving back through her ministry work, SHRM/ATD chapter engagement and nonprofit involvement. She has served in many capacities with Women for Economic & Leadership Development, including on the programming committee, calendar committee and progressed to the flagship Columbus Chapter co-chair, with over 700 members and many diverse events each year. She has since advanced to serve on the national advisory board for WELD, where she provides strategic support to the president and CEO and direction setting for the national organization’s new initiatives, chapters and programs. She has also held leadership roles with the Ohio SHRM board, serving on committees to plan, organize, present and deliver the Ohio SHRM conference with over 1,000 attendees.
Ashley has her Certified Human Resources Professional (SHRM-CP) certification from the Society for Human Resource Management. She is a certified DDI and Crucial Conversations facilitator, and has obtained multiple certifications including Strategic Workforce Planning, Prosci/ADKAR Change Management, Korn Ferry Lominger, Hogan and other assessments. She is a CoachU graduate and has obtained her ICF Coaching Certification to become an Executive Leadership Business Coach. She is a frequent presenter, mentor and coach for many individuals and events and presents frequently at her organization on the topics of leadership effectiveness, coaching, development, brand, political and organizational savvy and psychological safety, among other topics. Ashley has also presented nationally at the WELD’s Women Leadership Conference, the International Training Magazine Conference and multiple HR/training chapters in the Ohio region.
