CEOs Harness Juneteenth to Lead, Inspire
Learn how YPO Members celebrate Juneteenth through moments of celebration and joy, but also memories of pain and struggle.
Listen to YPO’s New Podcast Series Mistakes Over Failure
This new podcast series highlights the missteps and triumphs that CEOs and board members experience when addressing diversity, inclusion and belonging in the organizations they lead. Dr. Christine Crawford and Leslie Wingo tackle these important topics through frank discussions with their fellow YPO members. Find out how these CEOs and board members hold themselves accountable while simultaneously inspiring commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging in the businesses they lead.
Start listening: Mistakes Over Failure is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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Leadership
Family Business
Building Better Generational Bridges in Family Businesses
Managing a family-owned company or organization is an experience rich in nuance. “If you’ve seen one family business, you’ve seen one family business,” says Nikè Anani, YPO Board member, Lagos Chapter.
Diversity and Inclusion
Powering Progress in Canada: Women CEOs Drive an Inclusive Business Landscape
Despite modest gains, women globally remain underrepresented in corporate leadership. To help accelerate progress and build closer connection and collaboration in Canada, 55 chief executive officers and presidents from diverse…
EY
How Sajjan Jindal Is Building Up India
Learn what makes Sajjan Jindal, Chairman and Managing Director of JSW Steel, serves as an inspiration for all CEOs from his home country.
CEO Insights
Read more about YPO members positively impacting Diversity and Inclusion in businesses and communities across the globe.
Explore resources to help you learn, then lead
11.07.2024
Leadership
With determination, toward diversity: How I bucked tradition to rise to the top of my company
Hotelier Sandeep Gupta once faced barriers for simply being who he was. Now he ensures that he provides safe spaces for others
24.08.2023
Entrepreneurship
How Tunde Balogun turned his Niche Record Label Into a Global Entertainment Powerhouse
It’s music’s universally unique ability to be both diverse and unifying that has driven YPO member Tunde Balogun’s Atlanta-based record label, Love Renaissance (LVRN), to the top of the charts.
23.08.2023
Business Management
5 ways resisters may be undermining your DEI program and what to do about it
Despite the well-documented benefits of DEI programs, there are still many voices of resistance.
22.08.2023
Leadership
Denise Woodard, Founder and CEO, Partake Foods
Partake Foods CEO Denise Woodard shares her pantry must-haves.
22.08.2023
Impact
Rodney Williams, Co-Founder, SoLo Funds
Rodney Williams is expanding his SoLo Funds peer-to-peer loan platform to Nigeria.
22.08.2023
Y-Vonne Hutchinson, Founder and CEO, Ready, Set
Y-Vonne Hutchinson shares 5 ways resisters may be undermining your DEI program and what to do about it.
Partnerships and Alliances
The reach and connectivity you gain from YPO includes access and learning with organizations across the globe, including unique shared learning experiences, exclusive business and personal content and proprietary insights through strategic relationships.
theBoardlist
Connecting exceptional diverse candidates with global board opportunities. YPO members are encouraged to join as candidates with a YPO endorsement, recommend others from their network and discover diverse directors to enhance their boards and propel their businesses success.
B Lab
A leader in economic systems change, the B Lab Global Network creates standards, policies, and tools for business, and certifies companies — known as B Corps — who are leading the way. Its core initiative, the B Corp Certification, is a certification of for-profit companies that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.
HeForShe | UNWomen
YPO and the United Nations Women HeForShe initiative are partnering to develop and foster a community of global chief executive allies to positively impact gender equality. YPO and HeForShe will create co-branded virtual learning programs and discussion tools for YPO members to explore the impact of gender roles and the importance of addressing gender equality. YPO and UN Women local offices will also connect for further collaboration and allyship opportunities.
Stanford University’s VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab
YPO values its corporate membership with the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab, which generates foundational research to advance women’s leadership by diagnosing barriers, developing and evaluating interventions to get beyond barriers, and disseminates research-based solutions by bridging the gap between research and practice.
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