DLA Piper
DLA Piper, a multinational law firm with lawyers in more than 40 countries, provides YPO members with cutting-edge thought leadership mainly on the health care, technology and financial services industries.
Strategic Learning Partners
Through strategic relationships with world class organizations YPO members have access to unique customized learning opportunities, cutting edge thought leaders, expert resources and extraordinary experiences that enhance their leadership, business and personal life.
EY
As trusted advisors to business owners, CEOs, and founders of high-growth, market-shaping companies, EY supports YPO members by delivering sharp insights, bold perspectives, and practical guidance to ambitious leaders.
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs provides YPO members with curated insight into global markets, capital strategy and generational wealth planning, supporting informed leadership and long-term value creation.
Advantage Media
Advantage Media is a publishing and media services company that helps YPO members build their personal brands and authority, providing thought leadership and services such as book publishing, content creation, public relations and digital media.
Strategic Relationships: Academic
Academic relationships are the longest standing relationship within the history of YPO and are core to its mission of fostering lifelong learning. Each institution builds on its own managerial skills and leadership capabilities to constitute a unique Only-in-YPO curriculum. YPO has global partnerships with institutions including Harvard Business School, London Business School, INSEAD and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Harvard Business School
2026 marks the 74th year of the YPO/Harvard Business School leadership program, the longest-standing executive education program at YPO. The YPO/Harvard Presidents’ Program embodies the best of YPO’s goal of Lifelong Learning. Harvard has offered an unparalleled setting for YPO members to step back from their day-to-day business demands to explore new ideas relating to business, strategy and execution, to become inspired and to embrace new friendships. Over the decades, Harvard Business School Executive Education and YPO have collaborated to expand programs to serve the whole of YPO community through the Spouse partners and YPO networks program offerings. HBS professors impact member’s leadership development with ad-hoc interventions in chapters and regions.
London Business School
Stories of the transformative effect of YPO on its members are plentiful. Lesser known is how London Business School (LBS), through a 15-year relationship with YPO, is helping young adults, CEOs and spouses and partners create new businesses, connect to their customers in new ways and become better leaders. The programs born out of this partnership offer individuals the opportunity to tap into the insights of LBS’ world-class faculty, strengthen their entrepreneurial instinct and transform their businesses and mindsets as a result.
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Since 2014, the YPO-Stanford Graduate Business School program offers members the opportunity to spend six inspiring days in the heart of Silicon Valley harnessing the power of innovative thinking and reimagining their business models. Through this immersive experience, members challenge everything they know about their business, learn how to practically apply analytics and understand best practices for innovating and creating value within their organizations.
INSEAD
Family businesses represent 33% of YPO global membership. The YPO-INSEAD Global Family Enterprise Academy is a ground-breaking program created exclusively for YPO family and generational businesses. The program offers a multi module approach targeting different regions and leveraging INSEAD multi campus facilities. This comprehensive program integrates learning from entrepreneurship, leadership, strategy, finance, governance and psychology. YPO members develop new insights about themselves, their family and their business to improve their leadership and power business growth.