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Our Story

30 Years of Building Better Together

1994

June 1, 1994

Collegiate Web

Charlie started Next Jump from his college dorm room in 1994, as a print coupon book: The Collegiate Web. He went to school on financial aid and did not intend to start his own company; the coupon book was a means of funding his long-distance relationship with his high school sweetheart.

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September 30, 1994

Next Jump University

When we first hired interns, CEO Charlie went out of his way to mentor and coach them despite our overall lack of resources.

1997

April 12, 1997

Click At Work

We launched our first products aimed at corporate HR departments in 1998. ClickatWork was a combination of playbill-sized guidebooks and websites aimed at corporate employees.

1999

January 1, 1999

First Investment

First investment round which led to $45M raised from 100 angels.
(half dozen billionaires, No VCs, No PE)

January 1, 1999

Outlet Town

This was our first e-commerce platform where small businesses could add themselves; we became a hub for new and developing merchants to showcase their products. This laid the foundations for our ONECart technology.

January 1, 1999

MV21 Leadership Offsite

Stands for “Martha’s Vineyard 21” and the property donated by one of our investors for years of leadership offsites which slept 21 people and was namesake of the peer-nominated leadership group for the company for the year.

2001

January 1, 2001

Corporate Perks

Click at Work becomes Corporate Perks.

2002

April 17, 2002

Dot Com Bust

By the time of the first dot-com bubble, we had grown to 150 employees in 5 offices (Boston, New York, Washington, Chicago, and San Francisco). We survived the dot-com bust by shrinking down to 4 employees before building the business back up.

April 17, 2002

Healthy Breakfast

Started providing free healthy breakfast for employees. As breakfast is the most skipped meal, the intent was to make the healthiest choice the easiest choice by providing on-site.

April 19, 2002

Acquired Abilizer

Next Jump acquired its largest competitor: Abilizer, the #1 provider of employee discount programs.

2005

2005

Expansion to the UK

We launched e-commerce operations and office in the UK.

2006

2006

Super Saturday

Start of our biannual recruiting events leveraging search criteria adopted from Amazon/Google: "Stunningly Brilliant" + "Highly Driven".

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During this full-day event, we’d bring together whole company to help evaluate candidates.  There was no set number of job openings or roles, we hired for the person and matched them with the best role secondarily.  For instance, if there were two matches, we'd make two job offers.  If there were 15 matches, we'd make 15 offers...

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April 17, 2006

7 Core Values

Full Engagement. Exceeding Expectations. Consistent Execution. Active Learning. Trust. Collaboration. Tenacity.

2007

2007

Code for a Cause

A giving initiative where employees could donate two full-time weeks of their time as a small team to a non-profit of their choice.  We completed our first project in 2007, partnering with Angelwish.org to help them build a professional website and blog.

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2007

Culture Tour

Next Jump has run open-book to employees financially since 2002. In 2007, we began opening our doors culturally to other organizations. Culture tours led to questions on what programs to implement and show. 

2007

Coronitas

A weekly recognition ritual held at 5pm every Friday with food, drinks, and fun activities. Coronitas provides an opportunity for Next Jumpers to thank the people that helped them succeed that week

2008

On-Site Gym

Performance starts with a physical foundation.  We created space for an on-site gym in each of our office spaces to make the healthier choice the easier choice & encourage use anytime, not just after hours.

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2008

April 17, 2008

Brilliant Jerks

After increasing our hiring for software engineers, we ended up realizing we had hired a bunch of “brilliant jerks.” Overnight, we ended up firing 50% of our engineers.

Hire for Humility

When we audited which employees we kept on board, we realized a theme in the qualities they possessed-- humility.  Since this point, this has always been a part of our hiring process-- seeking people who are BOTH driven & humble.

April 19, 2008

WOWPoints

We introduced a loyalty currency, WOWPoints, into our employee perks program.

2009

April 19, 2009

ONECart Technology

We introduced ONECart Technology to our Employee Perks Program. ONECart allows our users to make purchases from multiple retailers, all at the same time, directly from us. The orders placed at checkout are sent directly to the individual retailers, saving people the trouble of having to place multiple orders on multiple websites.

2010

April 19, 2010

Leadership Training

We introduced Human Capital Engineering (HCE) programs as a way for Next Jumpers to upgrade their leadership development.

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In a concept inspired by the Navy, we created culture initiatives as safe practice grounds outside of core job responsibilities to take gated risk and practice outside their comfort zones to grow.

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April 20, 2010

Crowd Source Recognition

April 20, 2010

Top Tech Recruiter

Next Jump became top recruiter in tech on the easy coast; turnover skyrockets.

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Instead of relying solely on senior leaders, we enlisted the collective voice of all employees empowering them to recognize high performance.

April 20, 2010

2011

2011

Talking Partners (TP's)

Talking Partner's is a co-mentoring program designed to help employees increase their awareness and improve judgement. Your Talking Partner acts as a second screen when making important decisions. 

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The term has since evolved into "Training Partners"

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April 20, 2011

SA500

Silicon Alley 500 (SA500).  We open-sourced our recruiting IP to help build our local tech community, bringing together 50 of the best East Coast-founded technology companies to meet 500 pre-vetted engineering students on the New York Stock Exchange floor as a part of NxJ Cares-- whenever one has a unique opportunity to share a skillset that others need, it presents a chance to give back.

 

  • "It was easily the best recruiting program that we've ever been a part of. Not only is that great for all the companies like ours that attended… it's also great for NYC. The more we can get people to think about New York as a destination for technology, the better we'll all do. Rising tides lift all boats..."
    - Irving Fain, CEO & Co-Founder (CrowdTwist)

  • "I think requiring CTO/VP-engineering leaders was the most critical part of this event. KAYAK met with just over 100 qualified engineers, and several told me that they went to SA500 due to the unique opportunity to meet with company founders etc."
    - Paul English, CTO & Co-Founder (KAYAK)

     

  • "SA500 was far and away the best recruiting event I've been to. Not only was the quality of the candidates extremely high, but it was great to meet all the other founders and executives."
    - Brendan Schwartz, Co-Founder (Wistia)

2012

2012

50/50 Revenue Culture

We began measuring our performance evaluations equally between revenue and culture (personal development) contributions.

2012

Concept for Flagship Office

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Born out of our MV21 Leadership Offsite we envisioned the physical aspect of the future of work.  This inspired  our NYC office space later in 2021-- creating a space that promotes mental and physical wellbeing, optimizing brainpower and small team collaboration.

"We are telling a story-- a story of a company that changed the world-- by building our business in a fundamentally different way.  â€‹At this very point in time, there is no place like Next Jump.  You might think we'd be happy to be unique.  But that is not our goal.  We focus on people and what drives human performance.  Not the bottom line, not the short term.   â€‹When we speak of our goal and Human Capital Engineering, this is what we mean.  Changing the world."

- Tom Fuller, Chief of Engineering

2012

Gamification of Fitness

Changing Employee Behavior Without Force—our journey to get over 75% of our employees to work out 2x per week minimum

February 2, 2012

Dance Competition

Our holiday party at Next Jump is held once a year in February, and we bring together all employees from four offices for the event. It’s an amazing perk of being a Next Jumper, one that truly connects us. The highlight of the evening is the Dance Battle, in which each of our four offices performs three choreographed routines in front of external judges to compete for the best dance crew of Next Jump, and the coveted trophy. We don’t hire dancers-- from engineers to customer service reps, we all dance.

 

What started as a casual dance battle turned into a fierce yearly competition as we discovered the dance battle was also a great practice ground for leadership development. It has been said in only halfway jest that Next Jumpers take nothing more seriously than the dance competition.

April 17, 2012

Avengers

We introduced our first ever “Avengers Award,” the highest honor given at Next Jump. This award recognizes the Next Jumper who most exemplifies steward leadership and honors our mothers, who taught us to help others.

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First Avengers Ceremony

At our Avengers Ceremony in 2018, Steve Schaick, Deputy Chief of Chaplains at the Air Force, gives a powerful talk on the importance of caring for the caregiver.

Ceremony Highlights

April 17, 2012

Organic Leadership

Meghan Messenger, currently our co-CEO, considered working part-time as she and Charlie were managing all of our revenue and culture initiatives. We doubled down on our leadership development programs including Talking Partners, Situational Workshops, and the FLO Model as ways to create organic leadership across the entire company.

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April 20, 2012

Our Why

We worked with Simon Sinek to better articulate the culture we developed and strengthened the articulation of our WHY

 

To do the little things

that allow others to do the great things

they are meant to do

 

Shortened as Better ME + Better YOU = Better US

April 20, 2012

OO.com

In 2011, we launched OO.com as the first product from our partnership with LivingSocial. Every time you shopped, customers had the choice to donate reward points to support a cause of their choice.

April 20, 2012

No Firing Policy

Aside from increasing our hiring standards, this was a signal of intent for employees to show that you can expose vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and faults without the fear of losing your job.

Read this Charlie HR interview with London MDs Kevin McCoy and Tarun Gidoomal: https://magazine.charliehr.com/next-jump-ddo/

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2014

February 24, 2014

CEO Talks: De Srikumar Rao

Dr. Srikumar Rao, a celebrated coach/mentor/teacher who has taught his course “Creativity and Personal Mastery” at top business schools, as well as for many top executives globally, spoke at our offices. He is the author of several best seller books and also a popular TedTalker. Many of Dr. Rao’s past students & mentees have said that his course changed their lives and we were very excited to have him speak at our offices.

April 17, 2014

Leadership Academy

Stemming from the demand to go more in-depth into topics from our Culture Tour, we began hosting pro-bono Leadership Academies, bringing in Heads of Talent Development and Culture to open-book observe, learn, and participate in our culture.

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Ignitor of the Year Award

Simon Sinek’s "Igniter of the Year" award recognizes leaders who transform their organizational culture by living out, rather than just preaching, their values and purpose. CEO Charlie Kim received this honor in 2014.

2014

OSD SAMP

The Office of the Secretary of Defense, Senior Advisor for Military Professionalism created to improve culture and professionalism within the DoD identified Next Jump as best-in-class in leader development in practice.

May 19, 2014

Simon Sinek TedTalk

We are mentioned in Simon Sinek’s TedTalk on ‘Why good leaders make you feel safe’ – we are a great example of a company that creates trust and safety in order for employees to experiment without fear. He uses us as an example of how companies should run and the environments they’ve built, talking about our no-firing/ lifetime employment policy.

2014

John Hopkins Healthy Workplace Award

Next Jump was chosen and awarded as 1 of the 9 healthiest workplaces in US.

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Click HERE to view the article.

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2014

PLB

After the no firing policy, no one would ull the trigger on hiring. There was too much pressure to hire perfectly and we needed another gate. Personal Leadership Bootcamp (PLB) was created to give our team the ability to make a mistake in hiring and still have success long-term.

2015

2015

Lying, Hiding, Faking (LHF)

One of the first talks where Meghan explains the term she coined describing what came known as the “2nd job” in organizations.

2015

OS For Culture App Store

Leadership Academies led to the request to release our HR apps externally. We released our first 5 apps to the Apple App & Google Play store available to our clients. They were the first of over 50 culture apps developed internally to help run our company culture better.

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2015

Leadership 10x

Shifted the focus of the 10x program to start to include character and leadership development. Employees began presenting on their backhand and practice grounds for personal growth.

2015

PEMS

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A hierarchy of needs framework adopted from Dr. Jim Loehr of the Human Performance Institute on how to set up high-performance environments. It starts with a foundation in the Physical, and builds into Emotional (judgement/decision making), Mental (skill training), & Spiritual (giving back or purpose) in that order. 

2015

Yoga Nidra

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After a sleep survey  found that our top leaders were getting inconsistent sleep, we started a daily session of Yoga Nidra to help employees recover. "Sleep Class" is a 30-minute guided meditation which helps the body rest as much as a 2-hour nap. 

Join a  free Yoga Nidra session on COA

April 17, 2015

Adopt-A-School

The New York Office launched its Adopt-a-School Program, adopting PS-119 in the Bronx.

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We ran an internal survey to discover what causes/initiatives our employees cared about the most—and the top two were children’s education and children's health.  From this, we created Adopt a School where we funded after-school programs for schools in need. 

 

A subset of employees volunteered in-person each week to teach both tech and business curriculum while our senior staff mentored the principle and key administration.

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April 20, 2015

Perks At Work

In 2015, we invested millions of dollars in our biggest technology upgrade in company history, transitioning our e-commerce platform from corporateperks.com to perksatwork.com.

 

The platform went above discounts to include technology to help run company culture.

2016

March 22, 2016

An Everyone Culture: DDO book

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Next Jump was recognized by Harvard Professors Dr Lisa Laskow and Robert Kegan in the book ‘An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization’.  A Deliberately Developmental Organization (DDO) is an organization – large or small, private or public, for-profit or not – with a culture explicitly designed to advance the mutual flourishing of the organization and its people. Next Jump was one of three organizations globally recognized for this honor.

April 1, 2016

Perks at Work Launched

We upgraded and launched our most powerful e-commerce platform globally: Perks at Work. We are the largest employee benefits provider in the US and make over $2bil in sales annually.

2017

2017

Kids Club

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We are building a culture to support and help working parents succeed both at work and at home. We started with a kid-friendly physical space in the office and grew into a Summer Camp and after school program with world-class instructors.

2017

Work as the New Community Center

NxJ Summer Camp:

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We are excited to launch the first NxJ Summer Camp as part of our Work 3.0 Community Center vision & strategic investment in NxJ Families and raising children. Leveraging experts in the field, incorporating aspects of physical, emotional, mental & spiritual (PEMS) to create a world-class camp and solve the common challenges of raising children today.

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After School Program:
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We are excited to announce the launch of our five day afterschool program as part of our strategic investment in Next Jump families, and raising children. As a learning organization, the Next Jump little jumpers after school program will aim to both build on the learnings from our summer camp program, as well as incorporate strategies from some of the education, industries, leading researchers. 

The structure of the program consist of both physical activity and academies; through the program we have also strategically layered in social behavior training: grit/resilience/growth/mindset - top character traits we’ve identified, through our research, that will lead to success.

2017

CIA TED Talks

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Charlie and Meghan, Next Jump Co-CEOs, were invited to speak at the CIA to share their insights on leadership development, strategy, and decision making. Invited to the session were 70 of the most senior talent in the agency across all divisions.

April 20, 2017

People Org Chart

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The People Org Chart ensures that every NxJer has a coach who is responsible for their growth, which includes setting up their environment with training, feedback loops, and coaching.

April 20, 2017

Developmental Gym

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We set up an environment to help people grow – training, feedback loops and coaching, and baked it into our culture. This allows for faster learning and leads to more agile teams.

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2019

Raising Kids

2018

2018

The Hero’s Journey

Co-CEO Speech at dinner from our Summer Outing, our annual employee, friends & family event—one of the two times a year we bring all our employees to celebrate together.

2018

Adopt a School— Netley Robotics Competition

For the past few months, Next Jumpers have been teaching bright young minds at Netley Primary School how to code, using Lego Mindstorm robots. It’s been an amazing journey watching our young friends grow and learn, helping each other to control the robots and direct them in a variety of tasks. They began with no experience, but quickly picked up on learning how to make the robots do just what they wanted, using motion and colour sensors to command where the machines went and how they responded.

2018

TP Avengers

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For the first time, recognized a TP pair as the top servant leaders in the company - recognizing and elevating the value of the team and partnership.

2018

People Analytics

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Starting to put sophisticated measurements to feedback & expectations. The numbers show that setting high standards and expectations (growth mindset) lets people upgrade and achieve their potential.

2018

501c: edu.nextjump

Founded Next Jump's education foundation to fund grants, research and public schools.

2018

On My Mind App

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The On My Mind app is a coaching tool that allows you to share what is on your mind with your coaches, your peers, and your mentees. Reflecting on your decisions and understanding the emotions associated with them are key to becoming a stronger decision-maker.

2018

First Commercial Client: US Navy

Next Jump officially kicks off "Business 2" with their Leadership Development & Decision-Making Training

2018

Perks at Work Expands Internationally

Our global presence widens

to include 10 countries outside the US

2019

2019

Next Jump’s 25-Year Anniversary

2019

Flagship Lease Signed NYC

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2019

Co-CEO’s Journeys

Charlie Kim
Meghan Messenger

2019

NxJ Ventures

Founded the Venture Capital arm of Next Jump

Two Goals:

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Invest our money, but more importantly our expertise, to help start-ups scale. *Our superpower as investors is our ability to help founders run their companies better.

 

Create outstanding returns for our employees. The stock from NxJ Ventures will be entirely owned by our employees.

2020

2020

COA:
Community Online Academy

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Part of our response during the COVID-19 pandemic, we offered a full day of free courses for kids and adults every Thursday.  What we started for our own staff and family, we have made available to our full community (partners, clients, friends, anyone in need) in March 2020 and has been running every week since as a part of Perks at Work.

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Why We Started COA

Community Highlights

Hospital & Healthcare Worker Support

2020

Leadership in Practice

Started offering free weekly leadership classes open to the public via Community Online Academy.  Since 2020, Co-CEO's Meghan & Charlie have taught more than 400 hours all available on video.

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This weekly long-form podcast focuses on areas most skip-- 

managing your psychology (the stories and emotions that drive decisions), how to train the skills for high performance in uncertainty (like recovery from setbacks, navigating conflict, and executing when there’s no clear playbook), and staying relevant in a rapidly changing world (the deeply human skills AI can’t replace).

 

Each session breaks down real situations leaders are facing right now—at work and in life—and turns them into practical tools, mental models, and habits you can use immediately.

 

Learn more here

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2020

Pre-Resiliency Training | 
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Curriculum forming for our first Leadership Development & Decision Making Training (LDDMT) Module 1—originally called “Pre-Resiliency Training" or PRT which focuses on our mental immune system and dialing down our "Red Arrow Behaviors" which avoid criticism.

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Learn more about Modules here

“I’ve been in several resiliency trainings before-- this has been so much more effective. Documenting how I am in my head – feeling less alone hearing what others are struggling with. Without PRT, I would be in a worse state right now – I feel so much more hopeful – empowered to bring up these topics and work on them.”

“I feel like I finally have the safe space to be honest here”

“This was incredibly valuable. It helped me realize that I had to step up and show that I have the leadership skills and courage to lead. Many thanks for the feedback and believing in me.”

2020

DevGPS

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Developmental GPS (DevGPS) provides a rapid assessment of five key decision-making skills to help you better understand your strengths and weaknesses. This 15-minute assessment that measures your thinking patterns, highlights gaps in awareness, and identifies areas of balance and imbalance that influence your decision-making. You’ll also gain perspectives from self, peer, coach, and family.

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  • Future Outlook

  • Measuring Progress

  • Discipline in the Hard Stuff

  • Speed & Boldness

  • Truth (“No Lying Hiding Faking”)​

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Take your own free assessment here

2021

2021

Flagship Move-In
Partners Program

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NYC | Boston | London

 

Instead of fully returning to office, we created a new leadership tier called Partners, accepting employee applications based on who was the most coachable and made it a privilege to come into the office while keeping work from home as an option.

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2021

Social Capitalist

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2021

Partnership with
Chef Dani Chavez-Bello

Michelin-starred Chef Dani Chavez-Bello joined Next Jump to advance the mind-body connection of human performance. Chef Dani has worked across different continents, starting his culinary journey in Barcelona then San Sebastian, Paris, Hamburg, Tokyo, and New York. He’s worked in some of the top restaurants in the world as El Bulli, Berasategui, Maison Darroze, Mugaritz, and Bouley.  Today he is chef and owner of Babette Miami.

 

Always looking for culinary excellence, today his mission is gut health and how food contributes to improving human performance. He is focused on fermented food and its ability to maintain or rebuild our microbiome.

2021

"Premium COA"

  • Opened up our NYC Partners Home office to top Perks at Work 5-STAR customers by burning WOWPoints on Thursdays offering an in-person version of our online Community Online Academy.

  • Recovering from the pandemic, we saw an increased need for socialization to combat loneliness.

  • Supported the whole person by providing creative working space, nutritious food, workout classes & more.

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2022

2022

Cross-Domain Coaching

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Cross-Domain Coaching (CDC) refers to the idea that awareness and skills transfer are easier to observe and accept in an area outside of your area of core expertise. Under stimulated stress, individuals will see their default tendencies emerge. The goal is to help participants become more aware of their thought patterns and behaviors both individually and as a team. Curriculum with Cross-Fit & Basketball (Truth Reps)

September 2022

Fermentation Fridays

Special series where Chef Dani breaks down simple ways to  incorporate gut healthy fermented foods into your diet at home.

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The intent was the first Friday of the month you'd make the preparation a family activity and have a healthy staple for the month.

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Watch the series here

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June 2022

Human Performance Hackathon

In partnership with Cornell University, we hosted hundreds of students and young professionals

2022

Module 2: Taming Your Mind

Learning to tame triggers like fear and frustration.

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This course aims to uncover + address the distorted mental models from our past that trigger disproportionate reactions in the present. 

 

It teaches strategies to recognize when we're emotionally overwhelmed and how to recover quickly, restoring mental clarity. By improving this skill, we lay the foundation for the courage and energy required to take risks & innovate. 

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Nothing has accelerated my personal development faster.

In Mod 2 you get personal coaching + a platform to capture reflections & emotional state. Because it's a group, you have the added benefit of sharing in the experiences of each group member's own unique challenges. If you do the work, you end up with data...lots of it. And it's all about you. I found it a tremendous value.”

-Financial Advisor, Wealth Management

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2022

Decision Readiness Score™

We have the largest dataset of peer-to-peer feedback (collected over 15+ years) and have analyzed the data to identify the behaviors that set apart consistently high-performing teams. 

 

Similar to a credit score that quantifies good financial behavior, the DRS quantifies good behaviors that lead to better team decision-making. The DRS results help identify the highest ROI training for individuals and teams.

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2022

“Core 4” Signals of Long-Term Performance | Human Performance Metrics

1. SELF AWARENESS: High performers generally exhibit strong self and situational awareness. Our data reveals a strong negative correlation; individuals with low awareness tend to be the weakest decision-makers within a team.

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2. EVERYONE SPEAKS UP: Teams where “silence” is not tolerated tend to perform consistently better – vs teams where some members do not consistently speak-up. In these teams voicing your POV is a responsibility. The process to increase team candor includes two skills: [1] dial-down behaviors that inhibit criticism + [2] dial-up consistent feedback.

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3. TEAM EXPECTATIONS: We've found that performance is a team effort rather than a solo endeavor. High performers are not only self-motivated but are also held to high standards by those around them. The saying "you are the sum of the people you work closely with" holds true, and we see this in the data.

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4. PEER SHARPENING: We have found a close correlation between consistently exposing your work for critique & risk taking. High performance, especially in uncertain and ambiguous situations, necessitates taking risks. To counteract our natural fear of failure, it is crucial to become comfortable with the oscillation between receiving negative feedback (struggle) and positive feedback (success). This cycle is often what sets successful individuals and teams apart from those that avoid failure, thereby negate the opportunity for success.

2023

January 2023

Module 3: Conflict  

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How to go into vs avoid conflict, argue to learn vs win

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We are increasingly faced with unfamiliar situations with incomplete or conflicting information. Responding quickly & effectively is nearly impossible alone. Navigating these complexities requires diverse perspectives, yet most team conflict is avoided or deemed unproductive. 

 

Instead, we tend to over rely on "experts" or continually seek more information which often results in playing it safe and making slow (or no) decisions.  

 

This module develops the skills to expose your reasoning, assumptions, & creates the opportunity to practice the opposite of your automatic/default behavior, improving agility and open mindedness.

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The first Thursday of every month, Chef Dani teaches a different angle on how to cook delicious, gut-healthy foods to upgrade your health and wellbeing.

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Topics have included fermentation, visceral fat, gluten, Kaiseki, Washoku, seasonal eating & snacks for sustained energy, recovery, and high performance.

February 2023

Test Kitchen

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March 2023

Train the Trainers

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Weekly situational workshops run by the top-rated and most experienced Next Jump leadership coaches to work through live situations plus peer support from other coaches with active LDDMT groups across the globe.

2023

Chef Coalition

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Chef Dani assembled ‘The Chef Coalition,’ a team of 15+ Michelin level chefs, coming together on the First Thursday of every month

@ Next Jump, NYC during Test Kitchen Thursdays.

 

Better Me—they will focus on how to improve their skills in cooking, leadership, customer service, etc, & learn from each other.

 

Better You—they will also focus on how to make a greater impact as a team—teen mental health, food scarcity, food as medicine, mentoring up-and-coming chefs, & more.  The network has since grown to over 400.

June 2023

J-Term | School Curriculum

After pioneering a successful 2-week session for 80 middle schoolers from “Avenues The World School”—Chef Dani collaborated with Curtis Murungi (PhD from Stanford specialist building curriculums ) to help put together a pro bono learning curriculum geared towards food, nutrition, and mental health for youth. Topics include Food for Sports and Energy, Acne and Skin Health, Food & Mood, and more. 

June 22-23, 2023

"Big Problems"

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Hosted an invite-only conference to discuss “not easy to solve issues” happening within the world and workplace with hundreds of leaders across industry.

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Facing problems alone as individuals, alone as companies makes the pain worse with isolation and common mistakes and lessons not shared. Conversations included what to do with office space, mental health, remote and WFH/isolation, AI in the workplace, how to fix education, human health: exercise and food, and more…

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2023

Box Seats

A curated event series bringing together top-of-their-field experts with a Michelin-level dining experience curated by Chef Dani Chavez-Bello.  Each has an element of four components: Community, Food & Health, Learning & Cool. 

 

Past events have included:​

  • Gastro-Diplomacy in partnership with the UN and the government of Catalonia

  • The Piano & The Chef featuring the renowned German pianist Joja Wendt

  • The Invisible Extinction Microbiome Documentary Screening with Dr. Martin Blaser and Dr. Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello (NYU/Rutgers), leading scientists of Earth's microbiome

2023

AI Self-Coaching Tools | Feedback

Incorporation of AI technology to help coach via technology elements like improving feedback quality which uses a large language model (LLM) to evaluate each piece of feedback. Measured per person per team.

2024

2024

First Thursdays

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Our monthly, in-person gatherings on the first Thursday of every month bringing together our vast network from across industries to connect as a community - all over exceptional food led by Michelin Chef Dani Chavez-Bello & our Chef Coalition (400+ global top chefs & industry innovators)

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Each event is highly curated & has elements of learning, food & fun.

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Topics have Included:

  • Leaning from #1's with Mindy Grossman, Partner + Vice Chair at the Consello Group

  • Misbelief Book Talk with author Dan Ariely

  • Microplastics Documentary Premiere with Oscar-Winning Director Louie Psihoyos

  • Dancers & The Chefs-- Over 50 dancers from top groups, including the Ailey School, performed in a unique dance-and-food collaboration—raising over $42,000 supporting performing artists​

  • and many more...

2024

VIP Dinners

Invite only

Our VIP Dinners are intimate, open-discussion evenings hosted by Next Jump’s co-CEOs, Charlie Kim & Meghan Messenger. Each dinner is a multi-course, Michelin-style meal on our rooftop kitchen & terrace, prepared by Chef Dani Chavez-Bello—former executive chef at Bouley and at El Bulli (ranked the #1 restaurant in the world for 12 years). The table is intentionally kept small to leave room for real discussion.

Past discussions have focused on the future of NATO, microplastics and human health, AI, entrepreneurship, education, etc. Guests have included UN ambassadors, Oscar-winning directors, founders, educators and community builders.

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November 2024

AiCoach@nextjump.com Launched

Instead of writing a book (takes too long), we build a custom AI trained on our years of leadership IP through our 250+ episodes of Leadership in Practice podcast taught by our Co-CEO's Charlie & Meghan.  

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Anyone can get custom situational coaching via email in under a minute.  Like a personal trainer for your mind, it helps you build resilience, stay disciplined and train smarter by identifying your automatics that are both helping & hurting you.​​

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“For over 20-years, we’ve been on a mission to democratize elite human performance coaching– making it accessible to everyone, at no cost.  To us, this means creating a high-quality product that can serve the many, not just the few.  

 

It’s been a powerful mission & movement, two decades in the making”

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- Meghan Messenger, Next Jump Co-CEO

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December 12, 2024

Co-Thursdays

Co-Thursday is our weekly, in-person gathering — a more intimate night focused on building the routine of community. Think of it as a “get to know the community” evening, where members community host, share their passions, showcase their work, and tell their stories.

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Topics have included:

  • Science of Happiness

  • Wine & Cheese with Murray's Cheese

  • Deep Talk Salons

  • Salsa Dancing

  • Print Making

  • Baking 101

  • Mahjong

  • & many more...

2025

 February 2025

Perks at Work Mobile App

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The Perks at Work Mobile App makes it easier to shop in-store (especially for Movie Tickets) & redeem WOWPoints. Check out the mobile only offers as well.  Whether you’re booking your next vacation, upgrading your home office, buying a movie ticket or saving on food and groceries, the app is your go-to in stretching your budget.

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4.9 App Store Rating (3,000+ Ratings)

#34 Chart Position Shopping Category

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App Store  | Google Play

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"Surprising super easy step by step instructions on how to use all the coupons and deals. This may be the only app that's actually followed through with discounts without surprise hidden exclusions."

2026

February 2026

AiCoach Mobile App

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AiCoach now available on mobile via the App Store & Google Play

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New features in the dashboard like easily accessing all your past chats, monthly insight reports on your mental patterns, DIY courses & library of â€‹All Lessons​

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Stay Tuned as
We Continue to Grow & Evolve!

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