MEDD Consultants

What MEDD Consultants does

MEDD Consultants is a French non-profit association (Association loi 1901) headquartered in Ceyreste, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, that provides training, accompaniment, and consulting services to organizations and professionals in the healthcare, social, and medico-social sectors. The organization operates three core service lines — Formation (training), Accompagnement (coaching/support), and Conseil (consulting) — covering VAE (Validation des Acquis et de l'Expérience) preparation for CAFDES, CAFERUIS, and DEIS diplomas; QVCT (Quality of Life and Working Conditions) training; Logement d'Abord (Housing First) deployment support; Montessori pedagogy; and an 8-expert crisis management unit (Sortir des Crises). Proprietary methodologies include the iO (intelligence ouverte/open intelligence) framework, Boussoles de vie, Vagues de parcours, and the iO School pedagogical project, with Qualiopi certification enabling OPCO and CPF financing access.

The business model is a professional services operation monetized through per-program fees: inter-establishment training at 1,300-1,400€ per participant, intra-establishment custom programs from 1,400€/day to 4,500€ for two days, VAE accompaniment from 3,000€ to 8,000€ TTC depending on format, residential coaching at 6,800€ for 72 hours, and free-to-paid webinar-to-program funnels. Distribution runs through direct sales (website, email, phone), scheduled public sessions in venues such as La Ciotat and Marseille, customized on-site deployments, and a content marketing engine spanning LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and the MeddLetter newsletter. The customer base spans 164 organizations and 1,756 cumulative trainees with a reported 98% overall satisfaction rate and 96-98% VAE success rates.

MEDD Consultants is led by President Frédéric Mattei (30 years of sector experience) and supported by a named team of 12+ trainers, coaches, and facilitators including Cynthia Garin (Responsable administrative et financière), Anne Belay, Bruno Laprie, Astrid Potier, and Philippe Verien (former multinational executive). Sub-brands include Plateforme ABC (a medico-social platform launched in French Guiana) and iO School (an alternative learning project). The organization holds Qualiopi certification and reports no external investors, parent company, or funding rounds, operating as a self-sustaining association.

Name

MEDD Consultants

Legal name

MEDD CONSULTANTS

Website

https://meddconsultants.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

MEDD Consultants is a French non-profit association providing training, coaching, and consulting to healthcare, social, and medico-social organizations, specializing in VAE certification, QVCT, crisis management, and Logement d'Abord deployment across France.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Ceyreste

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Professional Training Services: MEDD Consultants generates revenue primarily through professional training services for the sanitary, social, and medico-social sectors. Training programs are delivered as inter-establishment (public scheduled sessions) and intra-establishment (customized in-house) formats. Revenue is generated per training day, per participant, or as full program fees. The company also offers coaching services and VAE accompaniment programs as professional service engagements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

MEDD Consultants provides Formation (professional training), Accompagnement (personalized coaching and support), and Conseil (consulting) services to organizations and professionals in the French sanitary, social, and medico-social sectors. Offerings include VAE coaching toward CAFDES/CAFERUIS/DEIS diplomas, QVCT and management strategy training, Logement d'Abord (Housing First) deployment programs, Montessori pedagogy deployment, crisis intervention, executive coaching (residential and remote), and AI-in-social-sector training, underpinned by the proprietary iO (intelligence ouverte) methodology.

Product overview

MEDD Consultants is a professional training and consulting firm operating in the healthcare, social, and medico-social sectors in France. The company offers three core service lines: Formation (training programs), Accompagnement (coaching/support), and Conseil (consulting). Their training portfolio includes VAE (Validation of Prior Experience) coaching programs for obtaining CAFDES, CAFERUIS, and DEIS diplomas; QVCT (Quality of Life and Working Conditions) training; Logement d'Abord (Housing First) training; Montessori pedagogy training; and crisis management services. Coaching offerings include residential programs (Résidence Coaching) and remote coaching (Coaching à Distance). Specialized projects include Plateforme ABC (a medico-social platform) and iO School (an alternative learning center). The company also provides AI-related training for the social sector through its Manager avec l'iA and L'iA pour le Social et le Médico-social programs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Plateforme ABC: Plateforme ABC, Autonomie Bien-être Citoyenneté - A medico-social structure providing reception services and mobile recovery teams for people with disabilities
• iO School

Products and services

• Formation — Professional Training Services Professional training programs for the healthcare, social, and medico-social sectors, covering team dynamics, organizational transformation, crisis management, and quality of life at work. Delivered as inter-establishment public sessions and intra-establishment customized programs.
• Accompagnement — Coaching and Support Services Personalized coaching and accompaniment services for individuals and organizations facing professional challenges, including VAE certification accompaniment, executive coaching (residential and distance), and crisis intervention.
• Conseil — Consulting Services Expert consulting services for healthcare, social, and medico-social organizations, including project management, strategic planning, organizational development, and territorial deployment support.
• VAE CAFDES Accompaniment Validation of Prior Experience coaching program toward the CAFDES diploma (Director of health and social establishments); 98% success rate reported (50/51 candidates), with accompaniment continuing at no extra cost until diploma is obtained. Both distance (from €3,000 TTC) and in-person (from €8,000 TTC) formats; OPCO financing available.
• VAE CAFERUIS Accompaniment Validation of Prior Experience coaching toward the CAFERUIS diploma (Executive and Unit Manager certification); 100% satisfaction rate reported. Distance format from €3,000 TTC, OPCO financing available, accompaniment continues at no extra cost until diploma obtained.
• VAE DEIS Accompaniment Validation of Prior Experience coaching toward the DEIS diploma (State Engineering in Social Work); full accompaniment to diploma at no extra cost. Distance from €3,000 TTC, in-person from €8,000 TTC, CPF financing available.
• QVCT des Cadres et Stratégies Managériales Training Two-day inter-establishment training program on Quality of Life and Working Conditions for executives, focusing on well-being management, stress reduction, and collective-intelligence approaches. Inter pricing €1,400 TTC per participant; intra pricing on request; satisfaction-or-refunded guarantee.
• Formations Logement d'Abord (Housing First Training) Training on the Housing First approach, including deployment strategies, team training, and departmental seminars for social housing operators and territorial coordinators. Individual from €200/person, collective from €1,500/day, free 1-hour webinars; OPCO (DPC) financing available. 89% reported satisfaction across 230 participants.
• Montessori Approach Training Montessori pedagogy training and deployment services for healthcare and social establishments, including custom programs and pilot-group formation. 120 trainees reported under this stream.
• Sortir des Crises — Crisis Management Services Crisis intervention and management services backed by an 8-expert team, including individual coaching, on-site work-situation interventions, intensive seminars, and management training. Targeted at social and medico-social establishments in crisis.
• Résidence Coaching Cadres et Dirigeants 72-hour (3 days/3 nights) residential coaching program for executives combining well-being activities, strategic planning, and management tools in a seaside environment. From €6,800 TTC; combinable with remote coaching.
• Coaching à Distance Cadres et Dirigeants Remote coaching program with 21 hours distributed across 10–20 sessions for executives, focused on project advancement and daily management improvement. From €4,500 TTC; satisfaction-or-refunded guarantee and results commitment with defined objectives.
• Plateforme ABC (Autonomie Bien-être Citoyenneté) Project — medico-social reception platform combining accommodation and mobile Rétablissement teams for people with disabilities, designed to accompany 100% of needs across 100% of the territory. MEDD Consultants supported L'Ebène in setting up the structure, transition management, and IT-tool deployment.
• iO School (intelligent Organic School) Project — alternative learning place deploying active pedagogies including Montessori, adapted to all territories from 0 to 100 years old; built around customized learning, encounters, and experience-sharing.
• AI for the Social and Medico-social Sectors (L'iA pour le Social et le Médico-social / Manager avec l'iA) Two companion AI training programs: (1) L'iA pour le Social et le Médico-social — AI tools training for social and healthcare professionals; (2) Manager avec l'iA — training on integrating AI tools into daily management practice.

Quantifiable outcome

• 98% overall satisfaction rate across all programs (1,756 trainees)
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• L'Ebène (Plateforme ABC Ouest Guyane)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022MEDD Consultants supports L'Ebène in setting up the Plateforme ABC Ouest Guyane, a new medico-social structure providing an integrated care offer (SPASAD, ESAT-PEA, DEA) and the first Logement d'Abord device in French Guiana. MEDD Consultants provides transition management, IT tools setup, and team dynamic reinforcement. Cynthia Garin and Frédéric Mattei from the team conduct on-site interventions.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Comundi: Comundi is a French professional training firm (part of Editions Lefebvre Sarrut) that delivers programmes for HR, public-sector, and social/healthcare audiences — directly overlapping MEDD Consultants' formation catalogue and OPCO-funded training model.
• Orsys: Orsys is a French professional training company delivering management, HR, project management and personal-development programmes to enterprises — directly comparable in catalogue format (inter + intra) and Qualiopi-financed delivery to MEDD's training business.
• EFE / ABILWAYS: EFE (part of ABILWAYS) is a French professional training firm focused on HR, public-sector and compliance training, with inter- and intra-establishment formats comparable to MEDD's QVCT and management tracks and similar OPCO financing.
• ASKORIA: ASKORIA is a French école/centre de formation focused on social work, social-sector management and innovation, with a comparable regional footprint and bench of sector-credible trainers to MEDD's iO and QVCT offerings.

Broad incumbents

• CESI: CESI is a French higher-education and continuing-education group with executive and management training programmes as well as consulting for organisational change; it competes with MEDD on intra-establishment and VAE-equivalent certification tracks at greater scale.
• AFPA: AFPA is France's national vocational-training operator delivering accredited continuing education across the country, including social-sector pathways; it overlaps with MEDD on certification-style training but at vastly greater scale and with state-backed funding.
• CEGOS: CEGOS is France's largest management training and consulting group, offering leadership, QVCT and organisational transformation programmes that overlap with MEDD's QVCT, coaching and crisis-management consulting from a much broader and scaled position.
• CNAM: CNAM is a French public higher-education institution delivering professional diplomas and continuing education in management, social work and HR — broadly comparable to MEDD's VAE and QVCT offerings but at public, national scale.

Regional players

• IRTS PACA-Corse: IRTS PACA-Corse is the regional institute for social-work training headquartered in the same PACA/Ceyreste catchment as MEDD; its diploma and continuing-education offerings directly overlap MEDD's CAFDES/CAFERUIS/DEIS-adjacent territory but it does not compete outside the PACA region.

Others

• Uniformation: Uniformation is the OPCO (professional training funder) for the social, medico-social and healthcare associative sector; it is not a competitor but is the dominant financing channel for MEDD's catalogue, making it the most strategic ecosystem counterpart.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/MeddConsultants2022
• Facebookfacebook.com/100024476299036
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/medd-consultants
• Instagraminstagram.com/meddconsultants

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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