Jeff Charney, 2021 ‘Brand CMO of the Year,’ Launches Mkhstry, an Industry-Disrupting Marketing Collective

Transformative, scalable, invitation-only model with leaner infrastructure and greater speed-to-market will modernize the 150+ year-old advertising/marketing industry

MKHSTRY’s 360-degree proprietary engagement approach will ensure ‘mutual bravery’ and galvanize company brand culture as the nation anticipates the new post-pandemic work environment

Jeff Charney, the 2021 “Ad Age Brand CMO of the Year” and former CMO of top-tier brands including Progressive Insurance, Aflac, and QVC announced the launch of MKHSTRY – a new, disruptive marketing industry collective that will work with brave corporate and agency leaders to modernize existing, pre-pandemic marketing and advertising models to produce breakthrough results in today’s remote working environment.

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“Our company name, MKHSTRY, is who we are and what we do. Quite simply, we make results-driven marketing history for relevant, game-changing leaders, companies and brands that are brave enough to share our vision,” Charney said. “The MKHSTRY collective is part an accelerator for industry changing ideas, part agency catalyst and part lifestyle brand. In today’s rapidly changing hybrid marketing environment, clients should expect work that is nothing less than historic to impact their bottom line. That’s exactly what our proprietary, scalable business model delivers.”

“MKHSTRY is a ‘just-in-time’ CMO-designed business collective that had to be launched this year – 2022, Charney said. “Two years ago, before the worldwide pandemic, marketing firms and ad agencies were operating with essentially the same service model they’d used for more than 150 years (based on the model developed by 20-year-old Francis Ayer of the first advertising agency, N.W. Ayer & Son in 1869). However, the pandemic rocked that existing system to its core. MKHSTRY will work only with courageous corporate leaders, visionary agencies and firms to maximize remote work productivity and to modernize their aging traditional business models – helping them adapt to the new creator economy, blockchain, Web3 and Metaverse worlds.”

“My love for this industry is a key reason that compelled me to step away at the top of my game as a CMO and drive transformational change.” Charney left Progressive on January 7^th, 2022 after announcing his retirement from the company in March of 2021.

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Driving the future of work with ‘on the map’ ideas/concepts developed quickly with minimal overhead and no bureaucracy

MKHSTRY will focus on idea-first marketing – instead of the more traditional campaign-first marketing – to put individuals, companies and brands “firmly on the cultural map using the most current marketing technology and practices.”

As a collective, MKHSTRY can react with speed and urgency on behalf of its select, invitation-only clients. There will be no offices, walls or bureaucracy, and staff will be flexed based on individual client need, eliminating the heavy overhead normally associated with a traditional agency or consultancy. The only overhead is what’s inside each team member’s head: valued ideas and concepts.

Proprietary pre-engagement model provides individual and cultural bravery barometer

At the heart of the new company’s engagement model is its proprietary assessment methodology, or MKHSTRY Index (MHI). The index functions as a mutual pre-screen “bravery barometer” between MKHSTRY and potential clients to measure the willingness and ability of a leadership team to transcend everyday, traditional marketing, as well as its level of comfort with executing a broader, jointly discovered vision of what’s possible.

“MKHSTRY is not for the faint of heart,” Charney said. “It’s a 360-degree, holistic, model-changing approach that’s exciting for the right folks and daunting for those less open to change. It buckles everyone up and prepares them for the journey.”

“There’s never been a better time for corporations, brands and individuals to MKHSTRY than now. The creator economy, blockchain and the Web3 world are here, without rules and gatekeepers to tilt the playing field. Brands – and their leaders – need to get out of their comfort zones to ‘take a walk on the wild side.’ They just need someone to hold their hand while walking, and that hand had better be cool, not clammy.”

Brand + culture: Unifying forces for today’s ‘new way to work’

“The model is not for everybody, because we understand that change isn’t in everyone’s DNA. In fact, more than 70% of all change programs in corporate America fail due to employee resistance,” (Source: McKinsey) Charney said. “While the seven letters of action in MKHSTRY must start at the top with brave CEOs, CMOs and agency presidents, the message of change must extend throughout entire organizations to the other most important seven-letter word: CULTURE.”

Surveys show that remote or hybrid work is becoming a permanent fixture in the corporate landscape (Source: PWC). With the traditional brick-and-mortar workplace in decline, companies must find new ways to build their cultures that don’t rely on buildings, offices, break rooms and social gatherings. Instead, brands and corporate cultures will be inspired and unified by the brand and ideas – history-making ideas.

Code-cracking creative: You’re ‘one idea away…’

Rather than focus on the more traditional day-to-day, campaign-by-campaign advertising model, MKHSTRY serves as an accelerator and partner for code-cracking creative ideas. It’s based on the simple belief that “creative” isn’t just a department within an agency – it’s a mindset that can be taught, promoted and institutionalized across an organization.

For over two decades, one of Charney’s core business tenets has been that you are “one idea away” from a breakthrough, and if you translate that into action the rest is…history. MKHSTRY is that action.

Creating a pathway for all future “historians”; grass roots market introduction

MKHSTRY is also a company committed to giving back. A portion of MKHSTRY’s profits will go to Little Free Libraries, a nationwide initiative to bring books and education to local communities through small, personalized, pop-up libraries across the nation. “We want to ensure that everyone has an equal chance to MKHSTRY and the Little Free Library book exchange provides that wonderful grass roots opportunity to create a pathway for future historians – young and old,” Charney added.

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