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Six Seconds company history timeline

1997

1997 Karen McCown, Anabel Jensen, Joshua Freedman, & Marsha Rideout start Six Seconds to answer: “How do you actually use and develop EQ?”

1999

1999 our first certification training outside the US was in Caracas, Venezuela — then London, England and then Johannesburg, South Africa.

2005

2005 the Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Assessment (SEI) was published

2007

2007 At the Heart of Leadership published (now in 4th Edition and international best-seller)

2009

2009 after a pilot process, Six Seconds’ founders created Synapse as a lab school to showcase the effect of a fully developed emotional intelligence program integrated with a robust, constructivist education program

2013

In 2013, an app that allowed users to record and post six second looping videos was created, and the era of Vine began.

2014

2014 Six Seconds closes its for-profit offices around the world to 100% focus on nonprofit mission of building the EQ community

2017

Kundu, S. (2017, December 14). Social Impact of Vine and How to Best Use It.

2018

2018 Six Seconds becomes partners with UNICEF World Children’s Day for POP-UP Festival to become the world’s largest social emotional learning project

2019

2019 Six Seconds helps organize the first-ever emotional intelligence conference at the United Nations Headquarters

2020

Herrman, J. (2020, February 24). Vine Changed the Internet Forever.

2020 Six Seconds creates special POP-UP Festival content “GREEN13” to address Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 CLIMATE ACTION to support youth experiencing “Climate Grief” or “Eco-Anxiety.” Six Seconds launches this program at virtual Climate of Emotions conference.

2021

Jackson, C. T. (2021, February 23). Why Is TikTok Better Than Vine? — Better Marketing.

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1997
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Karen Stone McCown,Joanna Brewster,Karla Garcia-Teruel,Maria Angelica Malpica Olvera
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