Your YPO experience is built on a foundation of community. Choose how it works best for you.
YPO members connect in all time zones, in every corner of the world, through many channels. Your journey begins with your YPO chapter — your home base in the YPO community. Chapters are central to creating lasting relationships with local members through bespoke learning, social events and shared experiences in the same geographic area.
“YPO has given me confidence, strength and resilience.”
Your YPO experience expands exponentially through YPO Networks, more than 40 virtual interest-based communities that extend your experience beyond your chapter. Networks open the door to members around the world that share your professional and personal interests, helping you further your business and pursue your passions.
“In YPO, you can meet people from all walks of life and different experiences.”
Our community’s most personal connection point is YPO forum. YPO forum is a small, tight-knit group that forges deep, trusting relationships, allowing you to share life and offer support on the most delicate business and personal issues. Through your YPO forum, you gain a confidential resource you can rely on unconditionally for honest insight and perspective.
Through YPO’s proprietary mentoring opportunities, a mentor’s hindsight can become your foresight. You’ll create new one-to-one relationships with your peers around the world for learning and growth in all stages of the leadership journey. These mutually beneficial relationships will forge new professional opportunities and inspire breakthroughs as a mentor, mentee or both.
“Forum is a place you can be yourself and express what you’re experiencing a totally safe and trustful environment.”
Across our community, members step up to serve as leaders leading leaders, driving the YPO experience on every level. Truly embracing servant leadership, you can join more than 10,000 members who volunteer their time to serve as leaders among leaders. Learn to lead without authority, communicate across cultures, build consensus, handle conflict productively and celebrate relationships along the way. These opportunities continually prove to be among the most rewarding in our lives — both inside and outside of YPO.
“YPO is the first thing in my life that the more I gave to it, the more I got back.”
Expand your perspectives, enrich your life and elevate your leadership. Choose what is most important and meaningful to you – and bring the family.
Your personal leadership journey is enriched through more than 5,000 local, regional, global and virtual events every year. These world-class educational experiences, culturally immersive programs and unique family adventures provide opportunities to learn differently and explore the world. Encourage your family to get involved to enjoy the experience together.
“YPO events empower me with new ideas and boost my personal network with unbelievable global connections.”
Learning and knowledge-sharing drives the YPO experience. Thousands of high-value programs help you focus on becoming a better leader, building more effective teams, raising responsible children or developing purpose that makes a difference beyond business. Your access to unbiased, proprietary learning through interactive virtual, on-demand and in-person experiences supports growth in every stage of your life. A focus on business learning helps you explore the most critical topics facing leaders today — conducted in collaboration with prestigious institutions, including Harvard, Stanford, London Business School and the Aspen Institute.
“I was never prepared for the extent and reach of the opportunity to learn in YPO.”
The reach and connectivity you gain from YPO includes access and learning with partners across the globe, including strategic learning relationships. These relationships bring you unique shared learning experiences, exclusive business and personal content and proprietary insights. You can also raise your profile in top-tier business media through YPO partnerships with influential media outlets.
“YPO is like having my own board of directors”
We believe business is a force for good in the world beyond generating prosperity and wealth. Achieving impact beyond profit motivates our members across the world to make a difference in lives, businesses and communities. Your YPO relationships and experiences will support and inspire you to lead and scale more purpose-driven, future-ready businesses. We celebrate our members around the world making significant, sustainable impact inside and outside of our organization.
“Impact means making an influence in our community in a positive way.”
We believe that strengthening families is essential to building better leaders. Your whole family can grow together through a variety of YPO programs, experiences and leadership opportunities that bring families together. In our community, the more your family gets involved, the richer your experience becomes.
“YPO doesn’t just serve the business person, it serves your partner, kids and whole person.”