AEW & Associates Inc. is an experienced team of corporate training professionals specializing in the sensitive and highly competitive realm of relationship-based enterprise. Equipped with international business experience, AEW & Associates Inc. are committed to finding unique strategies and workable solutions for your company’s sales and customer service challenges.

We pride ourselves on the personalized and hands-on service we deliver to our clients. Before we put pen to paper to design your customized training program we first learn your business, get comfortable speaking your language and become proficient in understanding your products and services. We research what the competition are up to, and where possible we meet with your people to gain a full understanding of their opportunities and challenges so we can meet these issues head-on in the training program. It is only after this research and due diligence are completed that we design and execute a personalized training program that resonates with the candidates, makes positive adjustments to their skills, behaviour and knowledge, and is 110% focused on them and their needs.

Ashley Walkley, the founder and principal of AEW Inc., arrived in Canada in 1980 as Manager for the Australian wine firm Thomas Hardy & Sons. As the pioneer Australian wine marketer in North America he is recognized as having been instrumental in setting up the framework for the remarkable expansion of "down-under" brands into the fastest growing wine category in Canada today. He is an acknowledged wine authority and founder of the Australian Wine Society.

Deciding to stay in Canada, Ashley was recruited by the Australian Consulate General as Senior Marketing Officer, where he increased the visibility and commercial success of Australian interests in Canada through both diplomatic and commercial channels.

In 1988 he joined U.S. brewer Stroh’s as Manager Canada. He played a key role in the bi-lateral Canada/U.S. trade negotiations resulting in the dismantling of trade barriers and full market access for foreign brewers – at the same time growing the Canadian operation into the largest and most profitable division within the international Stroh's empire.

Ashley is a founder and current President of the Australian-Canadian Chamber of Commerce, where he remains active in furthering Australian/Canadian trade and cultural relations.