In this EDGE - Beyond The Stage 1:1, Dave Garrison explains why buy-in is one of the most overlooked drivers of business performance. While many leaders focus on compliance, satisfaction, or engagement, he argues that true buy-in happens when people bring their full energy, creativity, and commit...

In this EDGE - Beyond The Stage 1:1, Pippa Malmgren explores the extraordinary technological transformation reshaping the global economy. From AI-driven scientific breakthroughs and new materials to energy innovation and changing geopolitical dynamics, she argues that humanity is entering a perio...

Worldwide employee engagement just hit an 11-year low. For family businesses, the risk isn't just turnover — it's losing the next generation of leadership before they ever get the chance to lead.
Here's what most family business leaders get wrong: they assume compensation is the problem, so they ...

In this EDGE - Beyond The Stage 1:1, Li Cunxin shares how extreme discipline, developed through his career as a professional ballet dancer, shaped his approach to leadership and performance. He explains the difference between discipline that builds resilience and the kind that can break people, a...

In this episode of Mistakes Over Failure, Fares Akkad (YPO Emirates Integrated), Managing Director, Meta Middle East & Africa, shares a sweeping journey shaped by global perspective, startup turbulence, and reinvention. From surviving the dot-com crash to building and exiting a successful e-comme...

In this EDGE - Beyond The Stage 1:1, Stella Clarke explains that the hardest part of breakthrough innovation is often not technical - it is getting people on board. Using the example of the color-changing car, she shares how prototyping helped her win buy-in, why organizations need to give creati...

In this EDGE - Beyond The Stage 1:1, Dan Rice explains how leadership must evolve in a world defined by speed, volatility, and constant disruption. He shares practical principles for crisis leadership - from disciplined communication to taking a “tactical pause” - and argues that resilient organi...

In this EDGE - Beyond The Stage 1:1, Francisco Santos shares how surviving kidnapping reshaped his view of leadership, resilience, and the true cost of freedom. He explains why protecting public discourse matters in the age of social media and cancel culture, and why democracy is being challenged...

What kind of legacy will exist because you were here?

During Global Impact Week, YPO and YNG members gathered for The Legacy Lab, an interactive session led by Peter Johnson that challenged participants to think beyond success and consider the long-term impact they hope to create in the world.

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What if solving global challenges starts not with policy, but with the people around the table?

A recent Social Impact Network fireside chat with Matthew A. Swift, Co-Founder, President & CEO of Concordia, explored how meaningful progress happens when leaders across business, government, and civ...

In this EDGE - Beyond The Stage 1:1, Kwame Owusu-Kesse explains what “impact over profit” really looks like in leadership - not as charity or signaling, but as making decisions based on lives and livelihoods. He argues that leaders need to shift their mental models, stop performative impact, and ...

AI is scaling knowledge and intelligence.

It rewards good judgment and penalizes poor judgment because AI enables faster scaling.

In a world where expertise is commoditized and analysis is automated, the CEO’s true advantage is no longer access to information or intelligence, it is their judgme...

In this TLA S02 session, behavioral scientist Milo Wilkinson explores why so many change initiatives fail - and why leaders often misread resistance. Her core idea is simple but powerful: people are not usually afraid of change itself, they are reacting to loss. Through stories, neuroscience, and...

In this TLA S02 session, behavioral scientist Milo Wilkinson explores why so many change initiatives fail - and why leaders often misread resistance. Her core idea is simple but powerful: people are not usually afraid of change itself, they are reacting to loss. Through stories, neuroscience, and...

As AI makes information and expertise more accessible, the role of the CEO is evolving. Authority now relies less solely on technical skills or data access. In a world overwhelmed with information and continuous change, leadership focuses more on clarity of values, sound judgment, and building br...

What if peace depends not only on politics, but on how culture, technology, markets, and human connection interact?

A recent Peace Action Network session, in partnership with the Global Diplomacy Network, explored how global systems are reshaping diplomacy, conflict, and the prospects for peace....

In this EDGE - Beyond The Stage 1:1, Louie Schwartzberg introduces “visual healing” - the idea that nature and beauty can measurably reduce stress and anxiety. He shares feedback from his Netflix series Moving Art and discusses clinical trials exploring how visual content can impact heart rate an...

Leadership today demands more than strategy and performance. It requires presence, emotional intelligence, and the courage to lead with humanity.

Join us for a transformative session where YPOers will explore how trauma awareness and empathy are not “soft skills” but essential capabilities for f...

In this EDGE - Beyond The Stage 1:1, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa warns that our public information ecosystem has become “toxic sludge” - addictive, manipulative, and optimized for profit. She argues that when technology outpaces government safeguards, democracies become vulnerable to i...

In high-growth, high-pressure environments, leaders often add more strategy, more meetings, more effort in an attempt to drive results. But what if the real advantage comes from subtraction?

Join our host, Bassel Hamwi (YPO Metro New York Gold), as Aaron Bare introduces the concept of Magnetic Z...

Most leaders and coaches know purpose matters. But few know how to find it with precision, repeatability, and depth. Most purpose work is long on inspiration and short on method.

In this advanced YPO webinar, internationally recognized purpose architect Tim Kelley introduces a practical framewor...

In this EDGE 2026 session in Sydney, Louie Schwartzberg explores how nature, time and perception reshape the way we see the world. Through decades of pioneering time-lapse cinematography, he reframes beauty not as decoration, but as a force that expands consciousness and deepens compassion.

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At EDGE 2026 in Sydney, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa delivers a stark analysis of narrative warfare, institutional collapse, and the erosion of trust in democratic societies. Drawing from her experience leading Rappler through political persecution in the Philippines, she explains how t...

At EDGE 2026 in Sydney, Mina Guli delivers a powerful reflection on courage, purpose and execution in leadership. Drawing on her journey running extreme distances to spotlight the global water crisis, she reframes endurance not as athleticism but as a metaphor for decision-making under pressure.
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