Emily Klingbeil
CEO, Phoebe
Bio: Emily is a Harvard MBA and an entrepreneur on a mission to support maternal health and accelerate the professional success of working mothers and parents. She is the founder of Phoebe, the premier parental support solution for employers. Prior to founding Phoebe she had a 15-year career in global finance with expertise in private placements, mergers & acquisitions, equity research, and investor relations. She is also a mother of two children and lives in New York City.
Org Info: Phoebe is the premier parental support solution for employers. Phoebe is the intersection of care and talent development through the parenthood journey. We are a whole person, concierge-level family support benefit that empowers employees in the workplace to navigate parenthood transitions through proprietary and comprehensive support backed by science.
What motivated you to pursue your current work? (i.e., What is your “why”?)
There was nothing more transformative for me than becoming a parent and a mother. In 2012, I looked around my workplace and didn’t see many women and mothers in leadership. I didn’t have the role models and mentorship I needed. After going through a myriad of health challenges in pregnancy, an emergency C-section, and undiagnosed postpartum depression, I decided that my life’s mission would be about helping women and all parents have what I didn’t.
What distinct value does your work bring to the digital health field?
Phoebe is about quality, humanity, and resilience. We believe digital health has a design problem. It is not human first and it does not see health in terms of life transitions. By design it does not connect the dots between physical and mental health and home and workplace success. This is where Phoebe comes in. We take upending life transitions, like becoming a parent, and provide the tools, support, and mentorship for personal health and professional success.
How does your work impact your target end-users or stakeholders?
We prevent and early intervene in postpartum depression and anxiety. We fill in critical gaps in expecting and postpartum healthcare, reducing time to diagnosis and increasing mentorship and education. We reduce turnover and off-ramping at work, particularly for working mothers.
What is one exciting update or near-term opportunity that you would like to share with the digital health community?
Growing interest in our “transition-focused work” and the intersectionality of mental health, life transitions, and personal and professional success.
Bio: Emily is a Harvard MBA and an entrepreneur on a mission to support maternal health and accelerate the professional success of working mothers and parents. She is the founder of Phoebe, the premier parental support solution for employers. Prior to founding Phoebe she had a 15-year career in global finance with expertise in private placements, mergers & acquisitions, equity research, and investor relations. She is also a mother of two children and lives in New York City.
Org Info: Phoebe is the premier parental support solution for employers. Phoebe is the intersection of care and talent development through the parenthood journey. We are a whole person, concierge-level family support benefit that empowers employees in the workplace to navigate parenthood transitions through proprietary and comprehensive support backed by science.
What motivated you to pursue your current work? (i.e., What is your “why”?)
There was nothing more transformative for me than becoming a parent and a mother. In 2012, I looked around my workplace and didn’t see many women and mothers in leadership. I didn’t have the role models and mentorship I needed. After going through a myriad of health challenges in pregnancy, an emergency C-section, and undiagnosed postpartum depression, I decided that my life’s mission would be about helping women and all parents have what I didn’t.
What distinct value does your work bring to the digital health field?
Phoebe is about quality, humanity, and resilience. We believe digital health has a design problem. It is not human first and it does not see health in terms of life transitions. By design it does not connect the dots between physical and mental health and home and workplace success. This is where Phoebe comes in. We take upending life transitions, like becoming a parent, and provide the tools, support, and mentorship for personal health and professional success.
How does your work impact your target end-users or stakeholders?
We prevent and early intervene in postpartum depression and anxiety. We fill in critical gaps in expecting and postpartum healthcare, reducing time to diagnosis and increasing mentorship and education. We reduce turnover and off-ramping at work, particularly for working mothers.
What is one exciting update or near-term opportunity that you would like to share with the digital health community?
Growing interest in our “transition-focused work” and the intersectionality of mental health, life transitions, and personal and professional success.