We coach Founders powering

collective change >>> 

Freedom

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Authenticity

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Legacy

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Prosperity

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Renewal

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Freedom >>> Authenticity >>> Legacy >>> Prosperity >>> Renewal >>>

Let’s get you plugged into our global award-winning coaching strategies + tools >>>

Anna B Sexton 1st gold prize winner DOHE ESCA global Edtech start up coaching award 2025 working with Ryan Bell, Tech Balance - mental health app for University students

Leverage your mission with our award winning start up coaching strategies >>>

Anna B. Sexton has been coaching for over 15 years with 1,000s of founders in incubators, accelerators and board rooms across the globe. She is the first winner of the Global DOHE ESCA Ed Tech Start Up Coaching prize.

Improve your performance with our holistic solution-focused programmes >

A growth mindset needs to be understood and nurtured in the fast-paced world of start-ups to scaling up in venture creation. By underpinning founders and their teams using positive psychological, applied neuroscience and Mental Health First Aid tools, day challenges can be the tools to drive innovation and sustain change.

Pioneer your product reach with playful, creative tools >>

Creative collaboration is the key tool for consistently innovating in a constantly changing landscape. We help founders and teams to lean into more playful, empathy-driven design thinking approaches when faced with sticky problems and those interpersonal rumbles that happen in any business. Clients include Imperial Enterprise Lab, DOHE Go-Together, Liverpool Business School and individual social business founders in Edtech, creative, digital, travel tech and tech for good sectors >>>

Together, we work with you to create lasting, collective change >>>

Anna B Sexton is an award winning global start up to scale up coach for edtech travel tech freelancers sidehustlers who dream of more freedom money profit DOHE ESCA winner 2025
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Our Why >>>

Our mission is to power lasting collective change led by energised Founders, pioneering impactful global solutions

Clients we collaborate with…

  • Anna B Sexton using design thinking coaching approaches with UCL Engineering Masters researchers team away London UK Founders tackling tech for good

    Founders Creating Collective Change

    What if hustle culture is just more of the same toxic BS you thought you’d be moving on from when you started? And your day to day juggling new updates, hiring, outreach, funders and investors is just a bit too much sometimes?

    FOUNDER COACHING PROGRAMMES WITH 15 YEARS EXPERTISE HELP WITH BURN OUT, NEW ENERGY, FOCUS + DRIVE

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  • Anna B Sexton led the creation of a global reach LJMU Digital Incubation Hub during Covid-19 pandemic with Google Digital Garage Princes Trust NatWest Business Accelerator

    University Incubator Ecosystems

    Do you find you now eed to constantly innovate, connect deeply with Founders, their teams whilst juggling the day to day and hitting targets? And be online, face to face and constantly reaching more + more learners?

    BUSINESS NETWOKING + ECOSYSTEM GROWTH IN UNIVERSITIES UNDERPINS OUR PARTNERSHIP APPROACH

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  • Anna B Sexton start up EdTech award winning DOHE ESCA coach 2025 working with Founders in tech for good digital education platforms across the global tackling health care, gaps in creative thinking and e-learning for professionals coaches and ESOL

    Ed Tech Accelerators

    You need to find that ‘right fit’ for your Ed Tech Founders leading with their lived experience of the sector, whilst keeping on your A-game in a growing team. All the while keeping up with the latest trends, events, social media + conferencing?

    AWARD-WINNING ED TECH COACHING STRATEGIES WORK USING 35 YEARS + EDUCATION EXPERIENCE >>>

  • Creative team away days run by Anna B Sexton are fun, design thinking person centred and use coaching tools to enable strategic collective change + innovation for team leaders

    Future Focused Corporates

    Great ideas need time spent together. Yet, in online, hybrid, and hot desk times, you need to encourage the extraordinary spark that happens when your top minds work together face-to-face, more than ever and boost mental health in the team.

    STRATEGIC TEAM RETREATS OR AWAY DAYS CATERING TO THE NEED TO RECONNECT, TAP INTO NEW IDEAS AND DRIVE INNVOATION ARE VITAL FOR TEAMS >>>

  • Anna B Sexton global award winning creative start up coach with 35 yrs + creative industry networking network building expertise. Networking is your networth

    Creative Industry Networks

    It’s a life long passion to be a Creative driver for change, whilst in these last 5-10 years you have found the verve, flair + ability to keep going chipped away bit by bit. You wish it wasn’t such a slog anymore…

    CREATIVE FOUNDER TOOLKITS ENABLE RENEWED EXCITEMENT ABOUT YOUR PEOPLE, PLACE + NETWORKS ABILITY TO CREATE COLLECTIVE CHANGE

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  • Anna B Sexton works with social business owners, B-corp founders and social entrepreneurs wanting to innovate for collective change - Liverpool Manchester London New York

    Social Business Fellowships

    When the passion, + lived experience to lead a social enterprise starts to wane, faced with reduced funding, new challengers in the sector it can feel like too much…

    FOUNDER WELLBEING PROGRAMMES EMBED MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT FOR SOCIAL BUSINESS LEADERS ALONGSIDE FUTURE PROOFING BUSINESS TOOLS >>>

What our clients say…

  • Anna B Sexton coached Edtech founder instructional designer Alexander Popov DOHE Go Together Cohort 3 Grandomastery creative thinking collective change

    "Anna's expertise and guidance have been invaluable. Her coaching style is characterized by strategic thinking, actionable advice, and structured, goal-oriented guidance. Most importantly, Anna never lost sight of the human element in business. She consistently reminded me to enjoy the entrepreneurial journey, underscoring that finding joy in my work is crucial for long-term success and resilience in the face of challenges."

    Alexander Popov - GrandoMastery Founder, Educator + Instructional Designer

  • Anna B Sexton coached founder Barbara Wilson School for Social Entrepreneurs creative coaching for leaders ACE programme collective change Working with Cancer

    "The coaching has helped me focus much more on developing the business. I feel I am much more involved with the senior team and our routes forward. The independence you have brought to your advice has enabled me to see things differently. I feel a lot more confident about taking the business forward."

    Barbara Wilson - Working with Cancer Founder

  • Anna B Sexton working with Yoni Chitiyat via DOHE Go Together ESCA programmes Edtech for collective change start up coaching award winner 2025

    "Anna is a top tier business coach. Her strengths lie in her ability to tailor the coaching journey to the coachee and personalise her approach to optimise results. During my time working with her at DOHE global I was blown away by her methods, attention to detail and dedication"

    Yoni Chitiyat - Startup & Venture Strategist

  • Anna B Sexton award winning creative start up coach mentor Elena Lo Presti UAL Creative Futures arts business incubator CIC social entrepreneur crafting for collective change

    " Anna has given me such precious advice about my business and my art practice, but has especially helped me to feel better and more secure in my entrepreneurial journey. I will forever cherish her brilliant knowledge which has positively impacted me and my CIC!"

    Elena Lo Presti - Craft Forward Founder

  • Anna B Sexton start up to scale coach award winner DOHE ESCA 2025 with Ryan Bell Tech Balance using tech for good to boost mental health for university students UK US

    " Anna has helped me regain confidence in my startup and my abilities and make huge progress in such a short amount of time. We now have not 1 but 2 sales in the UK & US! The team is looking stronger and more aligned as a result, and we have new-found hope and excitement for 2025. Thank you Anna!"

    Ryan Bell - Tech Balance Founder

Anna B Sexton 1-2-1 Founder start up coaching solution focused applied neuroscience play design thinking approaches Liverpool London UK New York

1-2-1 Founder Coaching

You can create strong ideas, build important connections, and inspire actions while taking care of yourself and your health on the journey of founding a venture together.

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Underpinned by lean, agile entrepreneur development, solution psychology and creative leadership coaching and mentoring

Creative coaching teams underpinning design thinking innovation strategies for sustainable collective change UN SDGs empathy mapping social enterprise ideas values

Strategic Scale Up training

You can leverage creativity, curiosity, and teamwork to tackle significant business challenges while maintaining strong team connections and harmony.

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Made with your team in a co-design process using empathy mapping, design thinking, solution psychology and creative leadership coaching, mentoring and accessible facilitation tools.

Creative coaching founder leaders in edtech tech for good creative industries peer to peer coaching collective change retreats UK London Liverpool Anna B Sexton

Founder Collective Huddles

You are around fellow founders who help you find more purpose. Sharing confidence, energy, and connections together can make you feel unstoppable.

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We are building out a super supportive, safe space for 1-2-1 coaching, peer to peer learning and time away together in the company of other Founders who just ‘get’ it. All underpinned with our award winning coaching tools.

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