We started with a question: what if every child had the tools to thrive?

ABOUT FLEDGE

Fledge is a whole-school wellbeing platform built with the educators, parents, and children who use it every day.

30+

Schools & Organizations

400+

Educators & Parents

2000+

Children Supported

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To empower children and the adults who support them with innovative tools that strengthen mental and emotional wellbeing.

MISSION

Fledge combines evidence-informed curriculum, technology, and experiential learning to help children build resilience, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence from an early age. Our platform and programs are designed to support educators, families, and organizations in making wellbeing education practical, engaging, and accessible in everyday environments.

A world where every child develops the mental and emotional foundations needed to thrive.

VISION

Fledge envisions a future where children grow up with the tools, language, and support systems needed to understand themselves, manage challenges, and build meaningful lives. By equipping educators, parents, and communities with accessible and engaging resources, Fledge aims to make mental and emotional literacy as fundamental to education as reading and math.

Three principles behind everything we build.

OUR APPROACH

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Every program is grounded in research and refined with real outcome data, not just good intentions.

Evidence-informed. Always.

Built for the entire school community - students, teachers, and parents using one shared approach and working together to figure out how to support one another.

Everyone should be a part of it.

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Designed with the educators, parents and grown up’s who'll actually use it, for the time and resources they actually have.

Built for real learning environments

Partners & Community

Thank you to the following organizations for their support in making our work possible.

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Meet the Team

Jenna Galloway

FOUNDER & CEO
Jenna is an educator with 12+ years of experience in health, education, and child development. Background in Health Sciences and Early Education. Previously founded Wymbin, an award-winning early learning and wellbeing studio. Recipient of the Lieutenant Governor General & CMHA True Imagination Award.
Bree Anderson, M.Ed

CONTENT & CURRICULUM SPECIALIST
Bree Anderson leads curriculum and community programming at Fledge, bringing together a Child Studies background, M.Ed. from UBC, child-specific yoga training, early intervention experience, and social-emotional learning expertise.
Andy van der Raadt

TECHNICAL & DESIGN LEAD
Andy van der Raadt leads Engineering and Design at Fledge, bringing together full-stack development, user-focused product thinking, and multidisciplinary design.
Dr. Dora Tam

RESEARCH LEAD
Dr. Dora Tam is a professor in the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Social Work whose research explores youth mental health and the use of digital technology to support wellbeing. As Fledge’s principal research partner, she led the evaluation of our approach to upstream mental health support for school-aged children.
Geraldine Domingo

PLATFORM EDUCATOR

Geraldine Domingo is one of the instructors you will find on our digital platform and an early childhood educator at Wymbin (sister company to Fledge). She is passionate about creating nurturing, engaging environments where young children feel safe, supported and inspired to learn. She brings a playful, child-centred approach to her work, helping children build confidence and develop important social and emotional skills through movement, mindfulness and meaningful connection.
Kim Seed

MIND & MOVE EDUCATOR
Kim Seed is an experienced elementary and early childhood educator with more than 12 years of experience creating engaging, inclusive learning environments for young children. A mother of two, she is passionate about helping children learn and thrive through movement, music and meaningful play-based experiences.
Michaela Chronik-Kennedy

MIND & MOVE EDUCATOR
Michaela Chronik-Kennedy is a certified yoga teacher and Level 3 Early Childhood Educator with a Bachelor’s degree in Early Learning and Child Care from Mount Royal University. Her diverse experience supporting children and families, combined with her training in yoga and mindfulness, informs her holistic approach to learning and well-being.

Advisory Board

Dr. Jacqueline Leighton

PROFESSOR & VICE DEAN, FACULTY OF EDUCATION
Development & Faculty Affairs at the University of Alberta. Dr. Leighton’s research focuses on human development and cognition, involving the interplay of affective, cognitive and social variables in the learning environments in which human beings develop and grow. As a testing specialist and registered psychologist, she has served as a member of technical advisory committees to ACT, College Board, Educational Testing Service, and Pearson.
Tom Hodson

FORMER PRESIDENT OF SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Tom Hodson is a collaborative and inclusive leader with a focus on creating customer-centric enterprises. He has a proven track record of creating winning team cultures, satisfied customers, and exceptional business results. Tom is the co-author of the internationally acclaimed business book "A Blueprint for Winning with Today's Customer" and holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
Sara L. Austin

FOUNDER & CEO OF CHILDREN FIRST CANADA
Sara is a world class champion for children, with more than 25 years of experience advocating for the rights of kids in Canada and on the global stage. As the Founder and CEO of Children First Canada, she currently leads a national movement to make Canada the best place in the world for kids to grow up.
Dr. Paul Arnold

FORMER DIRECTOR, THE MATHISON CENRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH & EDUCATION
Dr. Paul Arnold is the former Director of The Mathison Centre for Mental Health & Education and the Alberta Innovates Translational Health Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health at the University of Calgary. He is a Professor with the Department of Psychiatry, and a child and adolescent psychiatrist practicing at Alberta Children’s Hospital.
Eleni Stroulia

VICE DEAN OF SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
Professor in the Department of Computing Science and Vice Dean of Science at the University of Alberta. From 2011-2016, she held the NSERC/AITF Industrial Research Chair on Service Systems Management with IBM. Her research focuses on industry-driven problems, adopting AI and machine-learning methods to improve or automate tasks. She has played leadership roles in the GRAND and AGE-WELL Networks of Centres of Excellence.
Dr. Bonnieca Islam

PEDIATRICS PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
Dr. Bonnieca Islam is an Associate Teaching Professor with the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta. She works and teaches as a general pediatrician in Edmonton at the Stollery Children’s Hospital, the Northeast Community Health Centre and the New Canadians Health Centre.