STEER was set up 12 years ago by two founders, to teach children to steer the road of adolescence…
Our Mission
STEER was founded by Dr Simon and Dr Jo Walker to build a new generation of social-emotional applications to prepare young people with the human skills to thrive in life. Combining education and psychology backgrounds they set out to solve three big challenges.
First, how to identify young people with mental health risks early, and before they need specialist support. Second, how to reliably measure the impact of schools on students social-emotional development. Third, how to empower young people with skills to steer the road of adolescence for themselves.

Our Contribution
STEER now manages the longest-running dataset of student social-emotional development in the UK. We track, signpost and safeguard students from the age of 8-18 in mainstream, specialist schools and elite sports academies. Our data, allied with more than 3,000 strategies developed by experts, gives STEER a unique ability to support teachers.
During the pandemic, we helped hundreds of schools in more than 15 countries track and support their students during lockdown. More than 10,000 teachers have completed our online training programme. We currently safeguard the mental health of more than 70,000 students.
Uniquely, we enabled the UK government to quantify the impact of lockdown on student mental heath. We published our data 18 months earlier than other organisation, and remain the only institution with pre-pandemic tracking data by which to measure Covid’s actual impact.

Webinar – Bede’s School
Bede’s started tracking their pupils 3 years ago and over that time they’ve tracked and supported thousands of students and trained over 100 tutors and teachers.
Peter Goodyer, CEO of the Bede’s School Trust, Alex Murphy, Assistant Head and Annabel Hodge, Director of Safeguarding, share how AS Tracking helped them detect pupils’ hidden safeguarding risks earlier.
Making an impact
BETT Awards Winner - STEER Tracking


“An innovative whole school approach which gives a more holistic perspective on pupil development. A much needed leadership tool.”
Meet the team
We are a dedicated, passionate and experienced group head quartered in the UK with global engineering capability

Dr Simon Walker
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder and CEO

Dr Jo Walker
Co-Founder and COO
Co-Founder and COO

Michelle Greenhill
CCO
CCO

Avi Samanta
CTO
CTO

Lesley Chandler
Head of School Success Team
Head of School Success Team

Nicky John
School Technical Support Manager
School Technical Support Manager

Trevor Greenhill
STEER Sports and Sales Manager
STEER Sports and Sales Manager

Jonah Walker
UX Designer and Product Manager
UX Designer and Product Manager

Clare Sergeant
School Success Manager & USTEER Lead
School Success Manager & USTEER Lead

Robert Lloyd Williams
School Success Manager
School Success Manager

Nick Digby
School Success Manager
School Success Manager

Charm O’Kelly
Invoice Administrator
Invoice Administrator
STEER Advisors

Professor Dame Sue Bailey
STEER Adolescent Mental Health Advisor
STEER Adolescent Mental Health Advisor

Professor John Bargh
STEER Psychology Advisor
STEER Psychology Advisor

Professor Stephen Roberts
STEER Data Science Advisor
STEER Data Science Advisor
The history of STEER
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