CEOs and top-level executives at recognized leading organizations want to maintain their edge through times of leadership, industry, and business transformation.
NEXT Innovation is the solution: a team of experienced innovators with unique skills and tools designed for the new economy, ready to foster innovation from within.
We’re the secret weapon of innovative leaders.
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Our clients are always leaning forward.
From culture to process to structure to communication, there are many barriers to innovation. We’re delighted these great organizations invited us to help them overcome those barriers and create new products, new markets, and new strategies.












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We empower leaders to go beyond innovation theater into real results.
Every great organization begins as a scrappy startup willing to take risks on new ideas, new methods, and new markets. Over time, tools and processes emerge to deliver repeatable results, but they can reduce the ability to be agile and lean and to respond to new opportunities and threats. Our services help leaders cut through the layers to resharpen their innovator’s edge.
Leaders want to keep their products, their business model, and their organization at the forefront of their industry. Our fractional Chief Innovation Officer practice embeds the NEXT team into your team. We’ll bring insight and external perspective, leverage techniques and tools from the startup world, and challenge your thinking about “the way it’s always been done.”
Design Thinking | Barriers to Innovation Workshops | Board and Executive Retreats
Meet the Team
NEXT is the home of innovators.
We’re practicing entrepreneurs, experienced leaders in our innovation community, and have a track record of creating innovation wherever we work. We know how to help your team remove barriers to innovation, generate new ideas, and turn those ideas into winning offerings.
NEXT Partners

Megan Bearry
Finance and Operations Partner
Tom Kilcoyne
Managing Entrepreneur
John McDonald
Managing Entrepreneur“The only way to avoid pissing people off is to do nothing important.” — Oliver Emberton

Courtney Zaugg
Community Innovation EntrepreneurCourtney Zaugg is NEXT Studios Community Innovation Entrepreneur
NEXT Associates
B Corporation Giveback
Doing good by doing well.
As a Benefit Corporation, we return a portion of our NEXT Innovation revenue to the support of underserved startup founders. As a client, you provide a double impact: while we help you prepare for what's next, you're helping startup founders realize their dreams.