LAB - Leaders Across Borders
The YPO LAB is a one hour session which takes places on the main stage of the GLC and features YPO members sharing their unique stories of leadership, adversity and growth, encouraging audience members to think outside of traditional boundaries and help shape the future of our YPO community and beyond.
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LAB - Jody LaVoie (2024 GLC)
Jody LaVoie (YPO At Large) shares her story of how her husband was murdered after firing an employee in the parking lot of his business. Overnight, Jodie went from being a stay-at-home mother to a single mother, widow and now business owner. Jody shares how she balanced it all for years until she...
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LAB - Zineb El Ouazzani (2024 GLC)
Zineb El Ouazzani (YPO Italy) shares how she trained to be a professional tennis player her entire childhood into her teen years even attending University where she could study and play, until she faced hardship that changed the trajectory of her life. Twelve years later, to heal her earlier trau...
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LAB - Smoke Wallin (2024 GLC)
Smoke Wallin (YPO Pacific One) shares his message of hope and forgiveness as he details how he eliminated his long list of health issues and now lives in joy and peace. Smoke shares part of this process required him to face his darkest shadows which lead him to uncover and confront buried childho...
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LAB - Luis Pedro Recinos (2023 GLC)
Luis Pedro Recinos (YPO Guatemala) shares his story at the 2023 GLC.
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LAB - Nick Smarrelli (2023 GLC)
Nick Smarrelli (YPO Indiana) shares his story during the 2023 GLC.
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LAB - Rafael Pardo (2023 GLC)
Rafael Pardo (YPO Gold Colombia) shares his story at the 2023 GLC.
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LAB - Hayley Evans (2023 GLC)
Haley Evans (YPO Sydney Australis Regional Integrated) shares her story during the 2023 GLC.
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LAB - Chris Larkins (2023 GLC)
Chris Larkins (YPO Gold Orange County) shares his story at the 2023 GLC.
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LAB - Alison Lim (2023 GLC)
Alison Lim (YPO Singapore Integrated) shares her story at the 2023 GLC.
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LAB - Farid Naib (2019 GLC)
2019 GLC Leaders Across Borders presentation: Farid Naib (YPO Gold Philadelphia) experienced the worst thing a family could go through. He shares his story and the part that YPO played.
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LAB - David Seligman (2018 GLC)
David Seligman (YPO Gold Pacific US at Large) shares his journey of how the perfect life, successful business, wonderful home and beautiful family radically changes with the unexpected.
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LAB - Todd Kaplan (2018 GLC)
After spending eight terrifying years fighting the US government and defending himself against criminal counts he did not commit, Todd Kaplan (YPO Angeleno Gold) shares lessons of persistence and acceptance.
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LAB - Rob Safrata with Daughter Jana Safrata (2017 GLC)
Life came easily to Jana Koerner-Safrata. But in high school, she hit a roadblock and was diagnosed a high-functioning anorexic, where everything was more important than her health. Koerner-Safrata battled anorexia for years but it wasn't until September 2014 that she found herself in a clinic at...
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LAB - Sangitaa Advani (2017 GLC)
Journalist and writer Sangitaa Advani (spouse, YPO Gold Mumbai, YPO Monaco and French Riviera Gold) shared the story of her daughter who was born with Down Syndrome. While the initial diagnosis shook the family to the core, the family mantra of no compromise was in full force going forward.