Susan Steele

Mindbeat is your coaching infrastructure partner for building leadership capability at scale. We dont just provide coaches. We build coaching systems that turn fragmented efforts into integrated infrastructure that shifts culture and performance. We combine platform reach with partnership depth. The result is multi-level, integrated, and scalable coaching infrastructure. Thats how change scales, and lasts. Mindbeat redefines how global brands and high-growth PE-backed companies build leadership capability at scale. Whilst competitors deliver standardised coaching templates, we create customised solutions built around your specific business challenges, whether thats executive development, change management, or scaling leadership across 30+ markets. Our blended model combines the measurability and global reach of a platform with the strategic insight and customisation of a trusted partner. This delivers: coaching infrastructure that drives performance, not just activity, reducing leadership bottlenecks, accelerating growth plans, and building the leadership bench you need to scale with confidence. We work with: - High-growth & PE-backed companies under growth pressure - Global brands scaling across markets - CHROs, CPOs, and L&D Directors building leadership systems that deliver results Our approach combines: - Customised solutions built around your specific business challenges - Platform scalability with partnership depth - Diagnostic precision that identifies whats blocking performance - Multi-format coaching architecture from 1:1s to group sessions - Trusted partner integration within your HR ecosystem Its coaching infrastructure that scales like a platform and thinks like a strategic partner. Thats how you get leadership by design, delivered at scale.

Emerge - The first check for founders defining the future of work and learning Emerge is a global pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best future of work and learning operators. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity – by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders, providing first-cheque financial support, ongoing expertise and access to a community who have ‘been there and built it’ with unrivalled market-specific know-how. Founded in 2014 as Europe’s only edtech specialist fund, Emerge now invests in B2B and B2C startups across all categories enabling people to grow and fulfil their potential, from early childhood, K12 and higher education through to lifelong learning, workforce development, career navigation and the future of work. Emerge has invested in over 80 companies, now valued at over $2b and impacting more than 31M people worldwide, including Yoto, Causaly, Colossyan, Edurino, Mattilda, Unibuddy, MyEdSpace and Solvely. Emerge invests anywhere between $250k and $2.5M at pre-seed and seed. The team welcomes direct applications - apply through our website. Read more about Emerge’s investment thesis and the startup ideas we’re excited by in our Fund II manifesto linked below.

Powering teams that deliver for people and planet. Ocean Technologies Group provides maritime professionals across the globe with Human Capital Management and Operational solutions. It is built on the world recognised e-learning providers Seagull Maritime and Videotel and has been further strengthened by the Compas, Marlins, MTS, Tero Marine and DanDocs Marine Regulation brands. The group boasts over 100 years’ collective experience of helping the most successful ship operators achieve the highest standards of safety and operational excellence. Ocean Technologies Group and its global team of over 350 Oceaneers help make the industry safer, stronger and able to excel.

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.

Mindbeat is your coaching infrastructure partner for building leadership capability at scale. We dont just provide coaches. We build coaching systems that turn fragmented efforts into integrated infrastructure that shifts culture and performance. We combine platform reach with partnership depth. The result is multi-level, integrated, and scalable coaching infrastructure. Thats how change scales, and lasts. Mindbeat redefines how global brands and high-growth PE-backed companies build leadership capability at scale. Whilst competitors deliver standardised coaching templates, we create customised solutions built around your specific business challenges, whether thats executive development, change management, or scaling leadership across 30+ markets. Our blended model combines the measurability and global reach of a platform with the strategic insight and customisation of a trusted partner. This delivers: coaching infrastructure that drives performance, not just activity, reducing leadership bottlenecks, accelerating growth plans, and building the leadership bench you need to scale with confidence. We work with: - High-growth & PE-backed companies under growth pressure - Global brands scaling across markets - CHROs, CPOs, and L&D Directors building leadership systems that deliver results Our approach combines: - Customised solutions built around your specific business challenges - Platform scalability with partnership depth - Diagnostic precision that identifies whats blocking performance - Multi-format coaching architecture from 1:1s to group sessions - Trusted partner integration within your HR ecosystem Its coaching infrastructure that scales like a platform and thinks like a strategic partner. Thats how you get leadership by design, delivered at scale.

Emerge - The first check for founders defining the future of work and learning Emerge is a global pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best future of work and learning operators. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity – by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders, providing first-cheque financial support, ongoing expertise and access to a community who have ‘been there and built it’ with unrivalled market-specific know-how. Founded in 2014 as Europe’s only edtech specialist fund, Emerge now invests in B2B and B2C startups across all categories enabling people to grow and fulfil their potential, from early childhood, K12 and higher education through to lifelong learning, workforce development, career navigation and the future of work. Emerge has invested in over 80 companies, now valued at over $2b and impacting more than 31M people worldwide, including Yoto, Causaly, Colossyan, Edurino, Mattilda, Unibuddy, MyEdSpace and Solvely. Emerge invests anywhere between $250k and $2.5M at pre-seed and seed. The team welcomes direct applications - apply through our website. Read more about Emerge’s investment thesis and the startup ideas we’re excited by in our Fund II manifesto linked below.

Powering teams that deliver for people and planet. Ocean Technologies Group provides maritime professionals across the globe with Human Capital Management and Operational solutions. It is built on the world recognised e-learning providers Seagull Maritime and Videotel and has been further strengthened by the Compas, Marlins, MTS, Tero Marine and DanDocs Marine Regulation brands. The group boasts over 100 years’ collective experience of helping the most successful ship operators achieve the highest standards of safety and operational excellence. Ocean Technologies Group and its global team of over 350 Oceaneers help make the industry safer, stronger and able to excel.

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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.