Community Online Academy (COA) is offered on the Perks at Work platform, and run by Next Jump. In this overview we describe the origins of COA, sample schedule, common questions. If you're looking for more information to share with your leadership teams about this offering, this overview should help!

1. Community Online Academy
Overview
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2. • Origins of Community Online Academy
• Sample Schedule
• Meet the Instructors
• Common Questions
• Security + Accessing Zoom
As we’ve expanded our Community Online Academy (COA), we’ve been overwhelmed by the positive feedback and questions on
how to share with family, friends and colleagues. With the excitement has come some questions. We are sharing openly the origins
of COA, answering common questions such as why are we doing this, who are these instructors, etc. In this booklet, we will cover:
Table of Contents

3. Community Online Academy is a full day of free courses for kids +
adults focused on fitness, learning, and fun lead by world renowned
instructors.
You and your family have access to Perks at Work’s Community Online
Academy (COA), offering 90+ live courses running globally every
Thursday from 5AM – 10PM EDT.
What is Community Online Academy?

4. In these uncertain times, these classes not only
were a lovely way to lighten up our day but also to
get us moving. Mitchell’s energy, smiles and
positive attitude was the highlight of my Thursday.
Truly thankful for a good time. If you could relay
the info would be great. I think he ought to know
his 45 minutes are making a difference. The girls
work out was superb too. My 8 year old was so
pumped. She kept asking when the next class was.
I have already signed up for next week and literally
forced two other colleagues to sign up as well.
Thank you for making an impact. Blessings.
Attendee Highlights
This is really, really nice! Whoever thought of this
deserves a bonus. It's not easy to get movement in
when you work from home. You can't beat a mid-
day workout. I was away from my desk for less
than an hour and felt much more focused for the
afternoon. I hope TR will consider maintaining this
after stay at home orders are lifted.
“
Thank you so much. This was such a welcome
break from the really difficult balance between
home and school. My son was so happy and
excited about the new things he learned. Thank
you again and stay safe.
“
My 5-year-old daughter just finished your class
and LOVED it… Well organized, fun, kept my
daughter’s attention and YoYio is so patient. I
loved the music too!
“
This week, my daughter insisted that I join the
dance class and we had a great time learning
together. YoYio gave easy to follow directions and
was very patient with the children attending the
class. My daughter will be performing her new
moves for the family this evening!
“
We were able to attend two classes yesterday and
my son LOVED them. I actually saw how focused
he was on the math class and the hip hop dance
classed.. he loved. He wanted to do it again today.
I have signed him up for sessions next week.
Thank you so much for sharing. This was a
wonderful experience!
“
This was absolutely amazing for parents who are
working. I could set the kids up on another device
next to me so I could be aware of what was going
on, but I didn't have to stop working during the
class at all because the instructors were so
engaged and well prepared. Thirty minutes is a
great amount of time and breaking up the kids
activities through the day gave them and me
something to look forward to. This was a fantastic
experience! Thank you!
“
“
Macky's course was great! Age appropriate for a
broad audience and he made sure to acknowledge
participants by name to help foster engagement. I
loved that it was interactive yet "quiet" so I could
work while my son participated. 5 stars !!
“

5. Community Online Academy (Origins)
LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
We have been running Leadership Academies for
the last 6+ years, and culture tours for over 10 years.
This is a link here that has more detail:
https://www.nextjump.com/academy/. We have
had over 2,000 leaders attend our Leadership
Academies – senior leaders ranging from military
service, CIA, Olympic and sport teams, education,
not profits, and F500. Many of these leaders have
stayed connected and we are finding they are asking
to contribute sharing their expertise in the COA - so
much so that we are going to be tapping into them
as a major source of adult instructors. One example
is Michael C Hoppner, teaching the intro to remote
communications (head of communications for
Andrew Yang).
LITTLE JUMPERS PROGRAMS
Starting 2 years ago, we built out an after-
school program and summer camp program
for Next Jumper’s children – “Little Jumpers”
as we call them. As we built this out, we
leveraged the connections we had from
Leadership Academies and culture tours and
created an elite team of teachers.
POST COVID
We saw a significant need in our own staff and have
heard resounding from so many other employees and
organizations: in many cases you have 2 parents
working full-time from
home while trying to teach multiple children/multiple
grades… while managing the news/fear/concerns for
other loved ones and still trying to maintain our own
health/immune systems. Rather than having each
family, each company navigate how to do this, we
believe the Next Jump team can leverage what has
already been setup in our community and share it
virtually. There will be some pain points as we are
getting started but expect it to continually improve
with an intention to run them weekly on Thursdays.
Our intent is to provide enrichment for both adults
and kids, every Thursday.
We created COA very quickly (our first full week of working from home in March 2020) for our staff and then opened to our Academy alumni and
based on need/interest, it’s rapidly expanded as we see growing need and interest from world renowned teachers. This article written by our Co-
Founder has more context on COA.
COA Coronitas – our weekly recognition time and happy hour

6. Community Online Tracks
There are two tracks – a KIDS track, and an Adult track (which has two parts: fitness
and Learning).
Based on the level of interest, we will be expanding quickly. Our intentions are to build
out to 12 hours of classes (starting this week), 100 classes per hour, and up to 1000
attendees per class. As noted above, we will be tapping into the leaders from our
Academy alumni expertise, but also our clients have expertise.

7. Sample Schedules (Kids + Adult)

8. Meet the Instructors
These instructors will be teaching each week. There will be additional VIP instructors that rotate in and out. More instructors and full bios can be
found on the interactive COA schedule.
Michael Hoeppner is the founder and CEO of
GK Training, a boutique communications
training company serving Fortune 100
companies, universities, and individuals around
the world. Using unique kinesthetic learning
methods, GK teaches specific, actionable, and
repeatable skills in speaking, writing, selling,
and leading to everyone from high school
students to U.S. presidential candidates.
Charlie Kim + Meghan Messenger are the Co-CEOS of
Next Jump. Next Jump proves the combination of caring
for your employees and helping them grow as human
beings is possible while making money and helping the
world become a better place. Next Jump believes this is
a pre-requisite in today’s human capital economy and
calls it Better Me + Better You = Better Us. In addition to
building a $2 billion technology company over 25 years,
Next Jump was recognized by Harvard as one of the
best run companies in the world. Simon Sinek featured
Next Jump in his TedTalk for their no-fire policy.
Greg Kunkel joined Next Jump in May 1998 as a co-
founder of the organization. He has held a variety
of roles during his tenure. He is responsible for
developing Next Jump’s relationships with human
resources departments and co-leads product
development for HR services.
MICHAEL HOEPPNER
INTRO TO REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS
CHARLIE KIM
MEGHAN MESSENGER
LEADERSHIP IN PRACTICE
GREG KUNKEL
DEVELOPING YOUR PEOPLE FASTER
Joshua Hurt is the Chief of Enlisted Developmental
Education in the United States Air Force. He leads
the Educational Development for over 300K Total
Force Airmen. Joshua has been learning and
leading in the USAF for 25 years.
JOSHUA HURT
DEVELOPING YOUR PEOPLE FASTER

9. Meet the Instructors
These instructors will be teaching each week. There will be additional VIP instructors that rotate in and out. More instructors and full bios can be
found on the interactive COA schedule.
Julia Carey has been in education for over ten
years, and currently teaches fourth grade at
Avenues: The World School in New York City. A
self-described Human Venn Diagram, Julia has a
wide variety of interests and skills, ranging from
performing arts and storytelling to language
and movement. She believes that connecting
with each other is the most important thing,
especially in these crazy times, and hopes her
classes provide connection and inspiration for
those attending.
Coach Macky Bergman brings over 15-years of youth
coaching experience to Steady Buckets. Coach Macky
has trained boys and girls of all ages, top high school
prospects, and NCAA student-athletes, as well as Euro-
League and NBA professionals. He played four years of
varsity basketball at The University of Rochester under
Coach Mike Neer, and received three all-conference
academic team honors. In 2010 he started Steady
Buckets in order to bring quality skill development
training to NYC youth basketball players. Under his
leadership, Steady Buckets has thrived and now serves
over 2,000 youth, providing free skill development
workouts, instructional leagues, leadership training,
SHSAT test prep and girls only workouts. In 2018 he was
honored by NY1 as New Yorker of the Week and by the
Brooklyn Nets as Jr. Nets Coach of the Year.
YoYio Zeitinidis, was born and raised in Boston,
Massachusetts and has been dancing since the age
of five. YoYio achieved the overall title of Runner
up, as well as the First-Place title for females on
the hit television show, "So You Think You Can
Dance Greece”. She also had the opportunity to
work with Natalie Fotopoulos in developing
choreography for season two of the show. YoYio
has continued her career as a dancer, teacher and
choreographer with much success. She has
choreographed tours for some of the top pop
artists of Europe, danced in as well as
choreographed many music videos and live
performances. YoYio currently lives in Boston and
is the co-founder and director of the all female
dance company WTF-We The Females.
JULIA CAREY
KIDS ENGLISH, AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
MACKY BERGMAN
KIDS BASKETBALL
YO-YIO ZEITINIDIS
KIDS HIP HOP DANCE

10. Meet the Instructors
These instructors will be teaching each week. There will be additional VIP instructors that rotate in and out. More instructors and full bios can be
found on the interactive COA schedule.
Divya Gurung is a content creator and designer,
having surpassed a total of 3.5 million views
worldwide and over 66K subscribers on
YouTube - she has spent 6 years making
engaging videos on literature, critiquing media
and graphical designs. She is also an NXJ
Employee who codes, creates graphical designs
and helps manage the UK Fitness schemes.
Monika Wuhrer is the founder and executive director of
Open Source Gallery and KoKo NYC. Originally from
Austria, she received her MFA in sculpture from the
Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Monika founded Open
Source Gallery and its education wing in 2007. She is
the mother of 3 boys and realized that education in
New York City is missing programs that encourage kids
to play, explore and build without the standard
supervision parents and other programs provide, but by
letting kids assess their own risk, while still being
supervised and kept safe. Monika has exhibited in the
US, Norway, Austria, Italy, Thailand, Finland, France,
Switzerland, and Japan.
Staci holds a Master’s degree in Bilingual/Dual
Language Education from Bank Street College, is an
alumna of Teach For America and earned a
Master's in International Affairs from Columbia
University's School of International and Public
Affairs. She has worked and consulted for
organizations such as Northwestern University, The
New York City Department of Education and
Amigos de las Américas. With over fifteen years of
pre-school through university level classroom
experience, Staci is currently a head teacher in
second grade Spanish immersion at Avenues: The
World School. She is committed to facilitating
learning experiences that promote students’ ability
to ideate, inquire, acquire language and
collaborate. Staci is also apt at coaching students
to increase their skill and strategy repertoire
through goal-oriented feedback across content
areas and languages.
DIVYA GURUNG
KIDS BECOMING A YOUTUBER
MONIKA WUHRER
KIDS MAKER CLASS
STACI HYMAN
KIDS SPANISH

11. Meet the Instructors
These instructors will be teaching each week. There will be additional VIP instructors that rotate in and out. More instructors and full bios can be
found on the interactive COA schedule.
Mike Steadman is the Founder of IRONBOUND
Boxing. Mike is also a three-time National
Collegiate Boxing Champion from the United
States Naval Academy and Marine Corps
Infantry Officer, with deployments to
Afghanistan and Japan/Philippines.
Argentina started practicing yoga and meditation to
help cope with difficult changes in her life. Yoga and
meditation gave her peace in the middle of chaos and it
quickly became part of her lifestyle and everyday life.
After years of personal practice and self-study, she is
now a full-time instructor with a mission to help her
students stay healthy through yoga, meditation, and
mindfulness. Her teaching specialties include hatha,
vinyasa, restorative, and yoga nidra. Each of her classes
are breath-centered and challenging, but still accessible
and never competitive. In addition to leading group
yoga and yoga nidra classes in NYC offices with
Exubrancy, Argentina also teaches at Bread and Yoga.
With 17 years of experience, Mitchell Wayne has
worked with people ranging from beginner to
professional and celebrity as a dancer,
choreographer and instructor.
MIKE STEADMAN
BOXING
ARGENTINA ROSADO
YOGA NIDRA
MITCHELL WAYNE
DANCE
Allie Duffy is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, and
nationally certified Pilates instructor through
the Polestar program. She has been practicing
physical therapy for 5 years in Boston.
ALLIE DUFFY
BACK PAIN + PILATES Peter Chiarchiaro is Director of Fitness and has
worked at Next Jump for 12 years – first as a
trainer, then running our wellness program. He
loves nutrition, running, eastern/Chinese medicine
techniques for improving the entire person.
PETER CHIARCHIARO
NUTRITION TO BOOST IMMUNITY

12. Common Questions
Frequently asked questions
Our capacity is increasing, but we are currently
running 50 classes between 300-1,000
attendees per class. We have a reservation
system and active waitlist that will allow
employees in real time to gain access once
spots open up.
We are working to have 100 classes an hour, 12
hours a day which will allow for 1.2 million
attendees a day.
What is the capacity for COA? Will it be
able to accommodate my organization?
Employees can visit our FAQ page, our Getting
Started Guide, and they can also reach out to
our COA Help Desk that is actively monitored.
Where can employees go if they have
questions on COA?
Employees can access through their Perks at
Work account. There are multiple links to COA
on the homepage and in the navigation bar. If
you’d like to share a link, you can share:
https://www.perksatwork.com/#perksatworkC
OA.
Friends and family can take part in CO, they just
needed to be invited to Perks at Work by the
employee. Employees can invite the family
member or friend through the Perks at Work
Invite Family feature.
How do employees access, and can they
invite family and friends to join?
The safety and security of our Perks at Work
Community during COA’s is our number one
priority. A few of the measures we have taken
are below:
1) In addition to the instructor, each session is
hosted by a trained moderator. In large classes,
there may be both a host and a separate
moderator. This host/moderator is continually
monitoring the session, and has the ability to
turn of cameras, mute microphones, and kick
out a participant or lock a room if needed.
2) Participants of the meeting cannot share
their screens without authorized permission
from the host.
3) We have very clear rules for each of our
sessions—Participants microphones are muted,
and their video is on. Anyone who is disruptive
or does not follow the rules will be removed
from the meeting.
How are these sessions being secured?
The instructors vary by class but are comprised
of top teachers in childhood education, leaders
of F1000 and non-profit, Department of
Defense, and Department of Education. Fitness
instructors are certified trainers and often have
their own business or studio.
How are the instructors vetted?

13. Common Questions
Frequently asked questions
Yes, past classes can be found on the class page
in the interactive schedule.
What if an employee misses a class?
Will they be able to view it after?
Yes, please send the nomination directly to
COA Help Desk. Note, we have a large data
base of teachers and each nomination is
considered carefully. If there is interest, our
team will reach out for more details.
Can I nominate an instructor?
Our Share COA page has materials for HR or
team leads to share COA. Here you will find
email templates, flyers, intranet language and
more.
How can I share COA with my
organization?

14. Security
The safety and security of our Perks at Work Community during COA’s is our number one priority. A few of the measures we have taken are below:
Moderators
Each class is moderated by a trained moderator who is actively looking at all
participants videos, names and chats. Each moderator has the ability to turn off chat,
video, mute, and remove a disruptive participant.
Screen Sharing
Screen sharing ability is automatically turned off for every
participant except the moderator and hosts/instructor.
Muting
When participants join, they are automatically muted. If they need to talk to
participate in class, the moderator will allow them to unmute, but always
maintains the ability to mute all mics instantly.
Chat
Chat may be used for some classes, but will be monitored throughout the class.
For all kids classes, public chat is disabled, and kids/parents can only chat the
moderator directly with questions.
Video
We ask that participants turn their video on so that we can see who has joined.
Moderators have the ability to turn off video for any disruptive participants
Lock Meeting
If for any reason, a disruptive participant is removed from a meeting, the
moderator can lock them out as well as any future participants from joining.

15. Accessing Zoom
Instructions to access Zoom without downloading it on your device
We understand some organizations are not allowed to download new applications (such as Zoom) to their work computers. Below are a few ways
you can still take part in COA.
When launching a Zoom meeting invitation link, please do not install the Zoom
software (you may be prompted twice). Access the meeting through the link
provided on your screen called “start from your browser”.
You can also access Perks at Work and COA classes via a personal device if that
is preferable.
Watch the class later
Almost all COA classes are recorded (similar to TEDTalks), so the instructor and
any deck or media they shared can be accessed after the class on
https://edu.perksatwork.com/. Just search for the class and you will be able to
see all past class recordings, any applicable decks or media, and feedback on
the class.