This app has gamified improving your emotional intelligence

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Mental health has become a universal concern for benefit leaders in the last four years — but have they managed to offer resources that genuinely improve workers’ personal lives?

Ahead, an app that helps users improve their emotional intelligence through bad habit-breaking exercises, could be one more tool in the mental health toolbox, filling the gap between therapy and meditation-driven solutions. Inspired by his own need for self-improvement, Kai Koch, co-founder of Ahead, knew he needed a tool that pushed him not just to be aware of certain behaviors but to change them. 

Deanna Cuadra
Senior Reporter

Deanna Cuadra is a senior reporter at Employee Benefit News. Her work covers healthcare, U.S. policy and reform, challenges faced by women and parents in the workplace and innovation in work culture … Read full bio


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