Rethinking Leadership
The evolving dynamics of the workforce, customer service, and the longevity economy present new hurdles and opportunities. Leadership now means mastering hybrid work models, embracing innovations in human resources, and recognizing the burgeoning longevity market's potential. This era calls for a nuanced understanding of age diversity within the workforce and a commitment to revolutionizing customer experience.
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Accountability That Moves the Needle: Aligning Metrics to Drive Growth
Even the most disciplined teams can fall short when the metrics driving accountability aren’t aligned with real performance outcomes. Meetings happen. Goals are set. Dashboards are filled yet execution stalls, and growth targets slip. The missing link? Measuring what truly matters.
Join Mike Cai...
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Unlocking the Secrets of Boardroom Success - Director Compensation and Governance Insights
Join us for an exclusive Only-In-YPO presentation on the latest data and benchmarks from the 2025 Private Company Board Compensation & Governance Survey, conducted by MLR Media (publisher of Directors & Boards, Private Company Director and Family Business) in partnership with Compensation Advisor...
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Board Strategic Finance & Oversight in Action
Approving capital is easy allocating it strategically is where great boards excel. In this forward-looking session, Aleesha Webb, Founder of LadyBanker™, seasoned financial executive, and experienced board director, will guide members through the real-world dynamics of mergers, acquisitions, capi...
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Elevate Your Boardroom Impact Master the Art of Crafting Your Board Bio
In the ever-evolving landscape of corporate governance, a modern and well-crafted board bio can significantly enhance your candidacy for board roles. Join Jamie Grego Mayor, a distinguished expert in board effectiveness with extensive leadership experience, for a deep dive into creating dynamic b...
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The Numbers Every Board Member Must Know
As a board member, you don’t need to be a CPA, but you do need to master the financial fluency that drives effective oversight. In this dynamic and highly practical session, Aleesha Webb, Founder of LadyBanker™, seasoned bank president, and respected board director, will demystify the “Big 3” fin...
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Seeing the Whole - The Leadership Skill We’re All Missing
In this session, Executive Coach and Soul Strategist Melissa Palazzo Hart will introduce a new lens for modern leadership: the ability to hold separate realities without collapsing into fear, control, or silence. Leaders will explore how to expand their truth bandwidth, build trust across differe...
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Leverage Uncertainty to Create Game-Changing Growth
In a world where volatility and disruption are the new normal, how can leaders not only navigate uncertainty but harness it to gain a competitive edge?
Join YPO member and best-selling author Dave Garrison (Pacific One) and world-renowned strategy expert Dr. Rebecca Homkes for a dynamic and inte...
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Wellness Wednesday - Manifesting Purpose in Leadership & Life with Roxie Nafousi
Where personal alignment attracts your best you.
In this interactive session, "Manifesting Purpose in Leadership and Life," Roxie shares actionable tools to help you align personal wellness with purposeful leadership. Drawing on her work with global brands, media platforms like The Times and Vog...
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HBS Professor Thomas DeLong: The Importance of Gratitude
Thomas DeLong, Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice
Harvard Business School examines gratitude by drawing on personal lessons and examples in professional sports to illustrate the importance and impact of giving gratitude in big ways and small. -
Leading in the Age of the Algorithm: Ethics, Agency, Fight for a Humane Future
In a world shaped by unseen code, where algorithms dictate not only what we see but also who we become, leadership must evolve—or risk becoming irrelevant.
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EDGE 2025 - Maya Hari and Michelle Cheo: An Activist Working Within the System
Leaders shouldn’t have to choose between purpose and profit when making decisions. With the mindset of an activist, opportunities to engage beyond just financial returns and tackle the biggest challenges humanity faces are everywhere. We’ll explore big and small ways to mobilize impact across the...
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EDGE 2025 - Chip Conley: Midlife is Calling, Don’t be Afraid to Answer
Embrace the transformative process of aging by reimagining middle age as a chrysalis instead of a crisis. We’ll explore how to continue nurturing your passions while building toward midlife with curiosity, purpose, and wisdom.
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EDGE 2025 - Fernando Carro: From Barcelona to Winning the Bundesliga
Bayer Leverkusen achieved in the 2023-2024 season what many thought was impossible when Fernando Carro joined the club as CEO in 2018. In a single campaign, the club not only lifted the Bundesliga’s Meisterschale but became the first team in league history to finish the season unbeaten. We’ll exp...
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EDGE 2025 - Sarah Dusek: Investing In Women To Invest In The World
When you invest in a woman, she invests in her community, she invests in her family, she invests in the world in which she lives, and everything changes around her. Sarah Dusek shares her experience investing in the women of Africa through her venture capital firm and explores how scaling up wome...
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SuperShifts - Navigating the Next 200 Years with Strategic Foresight and AI
We stand at the threshold of a transformative era. With the power of AI tools, you can prepare yourself for any shifts in the business landscape ahead. How? This SuperShifts session will show you.
Join us for an insightful conversation with Dr. Ja-Nae Duane, who will outline nine pivotal "Super...
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EDGE 2025 - Riaz Shah: Leading in Disruptive Times
Explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping work and leadership against the backdrop of demographic shifts. As technology accelerates and talent becomes scarcer, leaders must rethink how they engage and empower people. This keynote challenges traditional assumptions and offers a fresh perspe...
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EDGE 2025 - April Rinne: Inside Out — Self-Leadership for a World in Flux
Whether it’s geopolitics, the supply chain, or inflation, we’re beset on all sides by uncertainty. Add to the mix the rapid technological advances of the past decade, and the pace of change has never been more frantic. But the faster the outer world moves, the more important it becomes to slow do...
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EDGE 2025 - Ken Hughes: The Unsustainable Pursuit of Growth
Growth at any cost is killing our planet. On the one hand, the UN Environment Programme recently warned that the planet continues to face a debilitating rise in temperature. And on the other hand, growth is an inherent part of business. How can we redefine success in a finite world?
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EDGE 2025 - Jordi Faulí: The Sagrada Familia: Building Gaudí’s Project
La Sagrada Familia is more than just a building. With its foundation laid over 140 years ago, it’s a living, breathing demonstration of genius. The project has spanned generations and adapted to cutting-edge technologies and construction techniques — all while remaining faithful to Antoni Gaudí’s...
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EDGE 2025 - John Galantic: Revelations of a Hired Gun - A CEOs Confidential Guide
At YPO EDGE Barcelona 2025, John Galantic, CEO of Tod’s Group and a leader behind iconic brands like Chanel, Ferrari, and Bacardi, provides rare insights into the art of leadership, brand-building, and navigating family-owned luxury businesses. Moderated by Rob Frances, this session reveals candi...
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EDGE 2025 - Felipe Gomez: Music and the Mind of a Virtuoso
In one of the most engaging and emotional sessions of YPO EDGE Barcelona 2025, pianist and business leader Felipe Gómez blends music and leadership into a performance that is as practical as it is inspiring. Drawing lessons from the life of a virtuoso musician, Gómez explores how method, attitude...
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EDGE 2025 - Robinson, Čaputová: Rock The Cradle And Rock The System Women, Leadership and Power
Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, and Zuzana Čaputová, former President of Slovakia, share profound insights into the essence of leadership in challenging times. Moderated by Mark Vlasic, this session explores the crucial roles of empathy, resilience, and courage in advancing democracy ...
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EDGE 2025 - Franco Gussalli Beretta: The 500-Year-Old Company and the Art of Family Leadership
Learn the secrets behind how Europe's oldest manufacturer has kept leadership within the family for centuries, and how they are approaching the unique challenge of having too few - as opposed to too many - members of the next generation to pass the company to.
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EDGE 2025 - James Ferragamo: Succession, Heritage, and the Family Business
Explore how a dedication to education, personal growth, and practical experience laid the groundwork for meeting the challenges of running a family business and how that foundation prepares each generation of the company's leaders.
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- The Importance of Balance: James Ferragamo says...