Ashley Blake is a cultural consultant, travel specialist, and location-independent entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in more than 50 countries across Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. She helps individuals, teams, and organizations to leverage cultural flexibility to better connect, communicate, and coordinate. Blake is the founder of Traverse Journeys, an adventure tour operator providing impact-focused, small group trips to more than 25 countries globally. Besides, she provides cross-cultural consulting to teams and individuals across industries. Blake's professional background includes event production, publishing, international tourism, freelance writing, startups, bookkeeping, operations, and project management. She is fluent in Spanish and has conversational Portuguese speaking skills. Blake holds an MA in Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA and BS in International Studies and Print Media from Oregon State University.