Meet Ashley
Ashley Knoote-Parke is the Queen of Purple Poppies!
She is the founder of Brand it Purple Pty Ltd, a firm specialising in assisting companies to develop their business brand and individuals to develop their personal brands. She also heads up tish’n enigma books, a boutique publishing company.
Ashley’s career began as a nurse and she soon realised she was destined to follow in her late father’s footsteps, working for the newspapers. During the six years she worked for the largest newspaper in South Africa she studied marketing, advertising and public relations.
Upon gaining her honours in marketing and being awarded the top student of the year by IMM (international marketing management) she became the marketing manager of the international business centres before moving into logistics and supply chain management as marketing director. During this time she also lectured in marketing and PR at a Johannesburg business college.
In 1998 she migrated to Adelaide, South Australia with her husband and had a few short term jobs before redundancy led her to start her own business. Beginning from nothing, with nothing she slowly built her business specialising in branding.
In 2004 she started a boutique publishing business, tish’n enigma books and published Footprints – South Australia, a coffee table book showcasing the best of South Australia. Footprints provided a platform for professional and up and coming photographers to showcase their artistic work in the mainstream media. She is also the author of recently published business book; ‘Brand it Purple – stand out in a crowd’.
She facilitates training for SkillPath, one of the largest training organisations in the world, mentors ambitious individuals and educates businesses on how to achieve powerful, positive branding and the success that goes with it.
She has been included in the Who’s Who of South Australia and was a finalist in the prestigious Australian Telstra Business Women of the Year Awards.
Ashley is a dynamic, energetic woman who is passionate about educating businesses in understanding the importance of personal and business branding and marketing in business and is regular speaker on personal and business branding and turning professionals into Purple Poppies.
