Built on experience inside the largest and most complex utility industry in the world.

Ashley Bourgeois is the founder of Run the Rooms and a seasoned operations leader who knows how to turn an ambitious vision into work that people can actually execute.

During her 13-year career at Pacific Gas and Electric Company, one of the nation’s largest and most complex utilities, Ashley operated in environments where clarity, accountability, and execution were not optional. She managed a $22 million budget and led employees across contracts, finance, resource planning, onboarding, and offboarding.

After helping develop and establish one department, Ashley became someone leadership trusted to step into struggling departments and help turn them around. She identified operational breakdowns, created structure, clarified ownership, rebuilt workflows, strengthened accountability, and developed the reporting and tracking systems used across the organization.

Her systems gave leaders greater visibility into financial performance, operational progress, emerging trends, and organizational risk. She built dashboards, forecasting models, trackers, and executive reports that helped leadership understand what was actually happening in the work—not simply what they believed was happening.

Ashley’s work also included supporting regulatory audits involving the California Public Utilities Commission. Following California’s devastating wildfires, she contributed to critical wildfire-mitigation efforts spanning substations, transmission, and distribution.

In that environment, the strategy created in a conference room had to match the work happening in the field—every day. There was no room for unclear ownership, broken handoffs, disconnected reporting, or the operational gaps many organizations quietly learn to tolerate.

That experience sharpened what has become Ashley’s greatest gift: seeing beneath the surface of an organization.

She has a rare ability to recognize patterns before others do, identify the real problem behind the visible problem, and translate complicated systems into clear, actionable solutions. She understands both the operational and human sides of a business because even the strongest strategy will fail if the people responsible for carrying it out lack clarity, trust, support, or accountability.

Ashley founded Run the Rooms on a straightforward belief:

Vision does not come to life only at the top of an organization. It comes to life throughout the organization—in the hands of the people doing the work.

The distance between how leadership believes work gets done and how it actually gets done is where organizations lose their time, their money, and ultimately, their people.

Ashley helps leaders close that distance.

Through operational analysis, culture assessment, and leadership mentorship, she helps organizations uncover hidden gaps, strengthen communication, clarify roles and ownership, improve workflows, and build systems that do not depend on constant intervention from the person at the top.

This is not surface-level consulting.

Ashley enters the rooms where decisions are made, follows those decisions into the rooms where the work is carried out, and identifies exactly where the vision, communication, process, or accountability begins to break down.

Because lasting change does not come from another strategy document.

It comes from building an organization where the vision, the systems, and the people finally move as one.

That is what it means to Run the Rooms.