JumpScale is delighted to share the 2023 Alaska Native Resilience Circles Impact Report. In 2023, JumpScale and Native CDFI Spruce Root launched the first organizational Resilience Circles to support Alaska Native impact companies and NGOs. This report highlights our culturally-informed approach to supporting Native Alaskan entrepreneurs and their ventures.
The Native-led kelp movement in Alaska is taking off and is integral to JumpScale's efforts in Alaska to support the wellbeing of Alaska Native entrepreneurs. Along with NDN Collective and Tamalpais Trust, we recently returned from Cordova, Alaska, where we went on a deep dive into the work of Dune Lankard and the Native Conservancy team to restore Native sovereignty, repair the ecosystem, and build a Native-led regional kelp economy.
Over a dozen collaborators and movement-makers joined JumpScale and Native CDFI Spruce Root in Southeast Alaska on a remarkable learning journey to support Resilience Circles, a wellbeing-centered accelerator for Alaska Native business owners. We learned in community with Alaska Native leaders in hospitality, regenerative forestry, plant medicine, weaving, carving, and more.
According to A.J. Jacobs (Drop Dead Healthy), it is! “Humorous thinking has parallels to the way we should be thinking in business. It has a lot to do with creativity: taking disparate ideas and mashing them together,” he says in The Business Case for Humor from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The JumpScale team agrees wholeheartedly with this perspective, and to illuminate how humor and joy can transform your workplace, we collected some tips, tricks, and insights from our team..
Being an entrepreneur is hard. Being a woman entrepreneur is, often, even more difficult. According to the World Economic Forum, “Despite all the blood, sweat and tears that get poured into a start-up by its founder, statistics indicate that female entrepreneurs still start their companies with 50% percent less capital than their male counterparts.”
We live in a world where change is constant, crisis is familiar, and stress is at an all-time high. Building resilience is often cited as key to navigating this time successfully, but what does this idea mean for leaders?
It’s a new year, and leaders of businesses large and small are doing the critical work of setting themselves, employees, and organizations up for success in the months ahead. I’ve been through this January planning phase many times in my entrepreneurial journey and wanted to share a few insights that our JumpScale community and I have identified over the years.
JumpScale is launching a new program to support you: the leader who ignites your team and parts the growth of your business. The JumpScale Resilience Mastermind is a curated six-month group program for social impact leaders. We provide you with a team of executive coaches, advisors, and peers who will help you build your personal resilience and grow your company without burning out.
Native American entrepreneurs are an essential part of building regenerative economies and ecosystems, yet face real and unique challenges building successful organizations.
Organizational Wellbeing is the conscious action to promote individual self-care, communication, and business practices to foster a deeper sense of purpose for healthy growth, from individuals to whole business systems. And, according to new research, Organizational Wellbeing is good for business.
As the pandemic continues, we've noticed that the companies we work with at JumpScale are experiencing similar trends: employees feel increasingly stressed and depressed, burned out on Zoom and their 24/7 connection to tech, and craving more real connection with their teams. One of the most powerful allies we've found to support company culture, boost employee wellness and address workplace stress in this "new normal" is based in a set of teachings that have been around for centuries: mindfulness.
With the holidays just around the corner, this is a stressful time for many. These unprecedented times call many of us to adjust our holiday routines to help keep our loved ones and communities safe and healthy, and this necessary adjustment only adds to the stress many of us already experience this time of year. Fortunately, those of us in professional leadership positions can help. Our organizations have quite a few resources at our disposal to mitigate employee stress during this end-of-year time.
However it turned out, everyone knew that the U.S. election results would bring significant change to America. In the world of finance, the markets have already responded positively to the news of President-elect Joe Biden. Biden’s victory will impact different industries in different ways, but one particular economic sector that will get a major boost is impact investing.
JumpScale always has a strong presence at SOCAP, the world's leading conference bringing together the largest and most diverse community of social entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders working towards a more just and sustainable economy.
As a nation, we are experiencing the most profound loss of certainty in the 21st century. The incredible loss of reliability and safety opens up an unprecedented moment to reconsider the role and effectiveness of business leadership. With the success of so many companies up in the air, organizations rely on tried-and-true tactics of the past to stay afloat. But resilience and survival depend on our leadership abilities to listen, learn, and act in profoundly new ways.
In response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, businesses are making tough decisions to weather the immediate storm, but the path forward is unclear and difficult to navigate. JumpScale’s team of experienced industry veterans can help you think through business strategies to survive and thrive during this crisis.
