Mark is the Founder and Managing Director of Mindful Education. Mark has overall responsibility for the company, including ensuring that we deliver high-quality, flexible and valued courses to partners, learners and employers.

Prior to setting-up Mindful, Mark trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte LLP, going on to become a Senior Manager at the firm. After 7 years of advising and working with clients at Deloitte in London, Mark studied for a full-time MBA with Melbourne Business School, where he graduated with a distinction.

Dario oversees Mindful’s work with our college partners, ensuring management and delivery teams are fully supported to deliver innovative and flexible ways to study, helping our learners achieve their goals. Prior to Mindful, Dario held operations and strategy roles in technology-related industries, having led company-wide reorganisation and post-merger integration processes. He holds an MBA from Melbourne Business School and is a qualified accountant. Dario is a co-founder of Mindful.

Matt leads the marketing team at Mindful. The team works with our college partners to market their Online and On Campus courses and are also responsible for promoting Mindful’s products to potential new partners. In addition, Matt oversees our students’ customer journeys and runs regular focus groups and surveys, enabling us to continue improving our products. Prior to joining Mindful, Matt worked in senior commercial sales and marketing roles and, most recently, for 6+ years as Director of Marketing for a Further Education College.

Michael leads Mindful’s Digital team, who are responsible for developing and maintaining all of our online systems. This work includes designing our bespoke and award-winning Virtual Learning Environments for our college partners, ensuring an outstanding online experience for every learner.

Prior to working for Mindful Education, Michael worked as a web developer for a large marketing agency, building websites for national brands. Michael is a co-founder of Mindful.

Cath leads Mindful’s Accounting team, co-ordinating course production and ensuring the highest standards across our Accounting offering. Cath has a wealth of experience in teaching and managing AAT courses, having previously co-ordinated the AAT’s largest Further Education training provider.

A former member of the AAT’s Learning and Development Board, Cath has a track record of improving exam pass rates by 50% by reviewing teaching methods and delivery order. Cath is involved in a wide range of AAT projects and is both a published author and a regular contributor at the AAT Training Provider Conference.

Jon co-leads the Management and HR team at Mindful, developing our management and HR courses and working closely with our Creative and Digital teams to deliver consistently high-quality online learning

Jon’s background includes 30 years of experience in sales and marketing and team management in the media, pharmaceutical and business services sectors. He has a BSc in Medicinal & Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Loughborough, and a CMI Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Leaderships & Management. Jon has worked as a CMI programme leaders since 2008.

Edmund leads all film work at Mindful, visualising our scripts and then directing our film crew and academic presenters to meet that vision. Edmund works closely with our Lead Editor, Academic team and Head of Production on all aspects of production design and creative film making.

Prior to working at Mindful Education, Edmund spent a number of years working in fiction film production. In addition to his work in educational film-making, Edmund also works on documentary and short-form fiction films.