Making connections, building capabilities
Since 2001 we've been building a diverse community of creatively-minded people, teams and organisations and bringing them together to work and learn in mutually valuable ways.
Our members include design maestros like Michael Wolff and rising illustrative stars like Alice Bowsher, sporting giants like adidas and global crusaders like Greenpeace, newly formed design studios like Koto and big agencies like BBH. Collectively we believe that openly sharing our knowledge, skills and experience is the best way to build our capabilities, enrich our networks and grow our businesses.
We bring our members, and their teams, together around collective areas of interest, challenges and opportunities; connecting them with new ideas, new ways of working and new partners to work with. Our members can access a weekly programme of in-person learning, supporting digital platform, curated peer groups and the daily expertise and support of our own central team — focussed on their individual goals.
Read more about our community, membership and ways we can help you, your team or business.
28th May 2018 — What's new
Our events calendar
Discover our weekly programme of talks, workshops and roundtables all rooted in your interests and goals.
Tailored partnerships
Find out how we help organisations like adidas, WeTransfer and Lush to build capabilities among their teams.
"Feels like the antidote to so much unimaginative and unmemorable training”
Charlotte Emmerson, The Guardian
"Partnering with YCN has connected our future leaders with inspiring peers from around the world”
Sonia Thorel, adidas Group
"So beautifully personalised, with every group I’ve joined hugely engaged”
Laura Corbett, Everyman Cinemas
"Unmissable events and a brilliant digital layer”
Robert Arbuthnot, Red Bull
Call, come by and borrow a book
Our central team works from a renovated warehouse on Rivington Street in London, combining
a ground floor lending library, two floors of workspace and a rooftop too.
