Our Leadership

Meet Our Leadership Team

Get to know the team behind Social Media Resilience®.

Abi Edmunds

Founder & Managing Director

With a background in behaviour change and digital wellbeing, Abi is the vision behind Social Media Resilience®. You'll find her leading from the front — working directly with partners and implementing programmes. Abi brings a people-first approach to every aspect of the work, blending evidence-based insight with practical tools to help people thrive in a online world.

Guy French

Programme Director

Guy leads the strategic growth of the organisation’s commercial and delivery capabilities. With over a decade of experience driving systems change across major sporting events and IT businesses, Guy brings a blend of operational oversight and commercial insight. He ensures SMR remains grounded in day-to-day excellence while building towards long-term, scalable impact.

Ben Edmunds

Education Director

Bringing together real-world classroom experience and business insight, Ben shapes our educational strategy. As a teacher, Ben understands first hand the pressures schools, students and parents face. He ensures that every element of our content is relevant, practical, and immediately applicable.

Peter Freeth

Commercial & Strategic Advisor

Bringing decades of experience in HR, sales training and strategic development, Peter supports our strategic and commercial strategy. Alongside his corporate background, Peter serves as a trustee of a multi-academy trust, giving him valuable insight into the challenges and priorities of the education sector.

Academic Collaborations

As part of our commitment to research-informed practice, we co-supervise MSc student projects exploring key themes in digital resilience.

Exploring Communication Strategy for Digital Wellbeing Engagement

Exploring ethical design in digital wellbeing tools : Enhancing Digital Wellbeing

This University of Birmingham research project investigates how AI-driven features and customer journey insights can improve user engagement and ethical design in digital wellbeing tools.

Evaluating impact of digital wellbeing on productivity and engagement in the workplace

A workplace-focused research project assessing how digital wellbeing interventions influence employee productivity, engagement, and overall organisational performance.

Exploring the ethical gamification of wellbeing tools

A postgraduate research project examining how ethical gamification and user sentiment insights can shape wellbeing tools that promote engagement, trust, and emotional safety.

Want To Join Us

Want to help shape a healthier digital future? We're a fast-growing team on a mission to change how people live and lead online. Explore our open roles and take the next step in a career that truly matters.

Open Roles

“Jacobs were delighted to host Abi from Social Media Resilience® as a key feature of our European wide Safety Week. The workshop content was informative and thought-provoking and the feedback from our people was overwhelmingly positive. I look forward to working with Abi and Social Media Resilience® in the future.”