About Zant

We Believe in the
Power of Human
Potential

Zant was founded on a simple premise: the best leaders invest in themselves. We're building the infrastructure that makes world-class coaching accessible to anyone serious about growth.

Our Mission

Unlock Human Performance at Scale

We're building the platform that connects ambitious leaders with world-class coaches. Our mission is to make coaching — historically reserved for the few — available to anyone with the drive to grow.

By combining technology with human intelligence, we're creating a new category of performance infrastructure that helps individuals, teams, and organizations achieve outcomes they never thought possible.

Outcome-Focused
Enterprise-Grade
AI-Powered
Human-First
Our Story

How We Got Here

Zant was originally founded in 2021 as a telehealth platform focused on expanding access to mental health support for youth across the United States. Its roots trace back years earlier, following the loss of our founder's close friend to suicide at just 19 years old. In navigating her own grief, our founder worked with a therapist willing to support her for $10 per session, an experience that revealed how transformative timely, affordable support could be, and how inaccessible it often was for others.

What began as pain quickly became purpose. Zant was built to help young people access support they otherwise might never receive. Mental health has always been core to our mission.

In 2023, as regulations and licensing laws evolved, it became increasingly complex for a small startup to continue matching therapy clients nationwide while navigating privacy, compliance, and state by state requirements. Rather than abandoning the mission, we pivoted, bringing our values, learnings, and technology into the coaching industry, while continuing to support youth through pro bono initiatives across the country.

As Zant evolved, a broader truth became impossible to ignore, founders, executives, and leaders experience burnout, stress, anxiety, and depression at significantly higher rates than the general population. Studies show that over 70% of founders report struggling with mental health, and nearly 50% experience burnout or depression at some point in their journey. Leadership, while powerful, is isolating, and the cost of unsupported leadership is high.

Our founder's own journey eventually included coaching, and the impact was undeniable. The Zant team lives what we build, working with a dedicated team coach and experiencing firsthand how structured, high quality coaching improves clarity, performance, and decision making.

Meanwhile, coaches using Zant began inviting their clients onto the platform, not because they were required to, but because it was easier to manage everything in one place. We listened closely. What we realized was that we had unintentionally built something bigger, an all in one infrastructure that allowed coaches to run their businesses, clients to access support seamlessly, and leaders to operate with greater focus and confidence.

From there, Zant expanded naturally, adding marketplace visibility, concierge matching, and partnerships with venture capital firms and companies looking to deploy coaching strategically to de risk leadership and execution.

What started as a mission to expand access to care has grown into the infrastructure behind elite leadership, without ever losing sight of why we started.

The Problem

Coaching is proven to drive better decisions, stronger leadership, and higher performance, but the system around it hasn't kept up. Leaders struggle to find and trust the right coach. Coaches juggle disconnected tools and admin-heavy workflows. Companies and funds lack structure, visibility, and ROI when deploying coaching. The result is wasted time, missed potential, and unnecessary risk.

The Insight

Coaching works best when it's treated as infrastructure, not a luxury or a last resort. When coaching is intentional, measurable, and embedded into how leaders operate, it becomes a strategic advantage. Founders move faster. Teams perform better. Capital is deployed more confidently. The missing piece wasn't talent—it was structure.

The Solution

Zant is the infrastructure behind elite leadership. We bring together vetted coaches, concierge matching, powerful technology, and a performance-driven marketplace - all in one platform. Zant allows coaches to run and scale professional practices, leaders to access high-impact support, and companies and funds to deploy coaching in a way that reduces risk and drives outcomes. This is coaching built for people who want to win.

Values

What We Stand For

Excellence

We hold ourselves and our coaches to the highest standards.

Integrity

We build trust through transparency and honest communication.

Impact

We measure success by the outcomes our clients achieve.

Innovation

We continuously push the boundaries of what's possible.

Team

Leadership

The Zant team

The Zant Team

Maggie Rose Macar

Maggie Rose Macar

CEO & Founder

Jay Desai

Jay Desai

Head of Engineering

Founding Team Member

Kieran Leister

Kieran Leister

Coach Success & Support

Founding Team Member

Advisors

Strategic Advisors

Anthony DiPrizio

Anthony DiPrizio

Advisor

CTO and Exited Founder

Kathryn Lancioni

Kathryn Lancioni

Advisor

PR & Communications Specialist

Lauren Jones

Lauren Jones

Advisor

Professional Coach

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