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Find the opportunity others miss. Turn it into the market others chase.

The Next Market helps CEOs, founders and executive leadership teams create clarity, shape demand, commercialize innovation and execute growth with discipline.

AJ Menozzi — Founder Read between the lines Saint Clair Shores · Michigan
“Marketing is the creation of need. Strategy is the discipline of turning that need into action.”
AJ Menozzi · Founder, The Next Market

Credibility, not theory

Experience shaped inside real companies, real markets and real operating pressure.

Calvin KleinPhilipsToshibaSiemens VDOMacy’sBloomingdale’sJeepFord

Representative organizations connected to AJ’s executive career, client history, channel work and market-building experience. Displayed as text references, not official endorsements.

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0×revenue growth delivered at Toshiba — $40M to $400M in 18 months

A senior operator’s lens

Not a consulting template. An operator’s lens on growth.

The Next Market is for leadership teams that already know something has to change. The question is what, why, how fast, and how to turn the decision into measurable progress.

01 — Clarity

See the real issue

Help leadership teams see the real issue, not just the presenting symptom.

02 — Demand

Create the reason to care

Turn features, technology and capability into a reason the market cares.

03 — Route

Connect the path to market

Connect positioning, channels, partners, pricing, distribution and launch priorities.

04 — Execution

Make strategy accountable

Move strategy from aspiration into accountability, sequence and measurable progress.

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The operating philosophy

Read the lines. Read between the lines. Create the next market.

Markets rarely announce the next opportunity. They leave signals. The Next Market helps leaders interpret those signals and convert them into strategy, marketing, go-to-market action and operating discipline.

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A point of view

Most companies do not have a growth problem. They have a differentiation problem.

The market cannot value what it does not understand. The work is to make the difference visible, valuable and executable.

Read the perspectives

Growth stories

Strategy is only valuable when it produces movement.

Consumer technologyGlobal expansion

Japanese corporation revenue expansion

A global business had scale, capability and product strength, but its market position and growth trajectory were not fully reflecting the opportunity. The work: reframed the business opportunity, sharpened go-to-market direction and aligned commercial priorities around clearer market demand.

$40M → $400M

Revenue grew roughly tenfold in 18 months.

Fashion & homeCEO leadership

Calvin Klein Home operationalization

A powerful fashion brand needed to extend into home furnishings without diluting its identity or losing operational control. The work: translated brand equity into a functioning business model across design, manufacturing, sourcing, marketing, distribution and channel relationships.

Concept → global business

A brand extension became a revenue-generating business in major retail, designer and global channels.

Global corporationNew division

Built and operationalized a $200 million platform

A major global corporation needed to move from concept and capability into a functioning commercial division. The work: built the operating logic, go-to-market strategy, organizational coordination and execution pathway required to turn an idea into a business.

$200M division

Created and operationalized from inception.

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The first conversation

When the question is important enough, the first conversation matters.

Use it to pressure-test a growth opportunity, a stalled initiative or a strategic inflection point — before momentum, money or time are wasted.