Sedge Beswick

Founder. Mentor. Advisor.

I help ambitious people grow businesses, ideas and themselves. I’ve spent nearly two decades of my career doing it myself, so I know growth never follows the neat trajectory we like to pretend it does. I was ASOS’s first social hire, helping build a 17M-strong global community, before founding SEEN Connects and scaling it to a £24m valuation. I've worked with brands like Nike, eBay, Red Bull and LVMH Group, before eventually deciding to quit the business I’d built. Today, I use what I’ve learnt to help others grow: ⚡️ STRATEGIC ADVISORY - I work with founders and leadership teams navigating growth, change and the decisions that come with both. I bring an experienced outside perspective, challenge assumptions that are harder to see from the inside and help teams work out what deserves their attention, what needs to change and where the biggest opportunities lie. 🤝 MENTORING - I mentor ambitious founders and leaders as they build, scale and evolve, giving them somewhere to pressure-test the decisions they can’t always take to their team, board or investors. I challenge their thinking, share what I’ve learnt and help them build the confidence to back themselves. 🎤 SPEAKING - Taking ideas around growth, business and ambition to stages including Google, Cannes Lions, MADFest and SXSW. Signature talks include Quit to GrowTM and The Imagination Gap, alongside talks around leadership, success and motherhood. 📈 INVESTING - I back ambitious founders and businesses I believe in, bringing my experience, perspective and network alongside capital. 💡 BUILDING - I’m still a founder. I love taking an idea from nothing and working out what it could become, so the perspective I bring to other businesses is backed by the reality of building today, not relying solely on what worked for me in the past. ❌ QUIT TO GROWTM - Building a bigger conversation around something I’ve experienced first-hand: knowing when to quit. What started as a keynote is now growing into a brand that brings the idea into people’s everyday lives and decisions. 🧠 NXT LVL - Founder and a regular contributor, NXT LVL was built for people who are unapologetic about wanting more. I share my perspective on ambition, business and the realities of going after it. I’m also a mum to two badass girls, so I’m all in on what happens when ambition meets a very full life, and being honest about how what we want, how we work and our definitions of success change as we do. If you want to talk speaking, mentoring, strategic advisory or anything else: 📧 [email removed] 💻 sedgebeswick.co.uk