Our vision is a global community of Young Professionals creating a better world for current and future generations through local and global action.
Our mission is informing, inspiring and equipping young professionals as sustainability practitioners and social change agents.
Young professionals can be defined as individuals aged 21 to 40 in their early to middle careers. They are skilled, connected, passionate and make up a very sizable global demographic, running into the hundreds of millions. They have moved beyond the title of “youth” and are now effectively part of the professional establishment, connected through the organizations that employ them, and the improved opportunities to engage in various democratic processes. They are more receptive to new ideas and actual change. Young professionals are ideally placed to influence and capable of driving current and future change in the world. The IYPF exists to help young professionals realize this potential, to take advantage of this position, and to eventually help them take their place as the world leaders of tomorrow.
IYPF goals: the organization was formed in 2001 to meet a need at the time to create an organization whose goal was to produce a global community of young professionals creating a better world for current and future generations through local and global action. IYPF is a professional focused organization that seeks to:
- Highlight the powerful position and influence young professionals have both inside corporations and through government;
- Encourage young professionals to actively help make a difference;
- Improve the capacity of young professionals making a difference through information, knowledge and connectivity.
In numerical terms, the IYPF at present (ie the time of drafting this Strategy) brings together over 11 000 members from more than 80 countries worldwide and at least 50 professional fields. IYPF members speak most of the languages in the world and take positions from junior through senior to CEO and President levels in a wide range of organisations and institutions.
Our mission is informing, inspiring and equipping young professionals as sustainability practitioners and social change agents.
Young professionals can be defined as individuals aged 21 to 40 in their early to middle careers. They are skilled, connected, passionate and make up a very sizable global demographic, running into the hundreds of millions. They have moved beyond the title of “youth” and are now effectively part of the professional establishment, connected through the organizations that employ them, and the improved opportunities to engage in various democratic processes. They are more receptive to new ideas and actual change. Young professionals are ideally placed to influence and capable of driving current and future change in the world. The IYPF exists to help young professionals realize this potential, to take advantage of this position, and to eventually help them take their place as the world leaders of tomorrow.
IYPF goals: the organization was formed in 2001 to meet a need at the time to create an organization whose goal was to produce a global community of young professionals creating a better world for current and future generations through local and global action. IYPF is a professional focused organization that seeks to:
- Highlight the powerful position and influence young professionals have both inside corporations and through government;
- Encourage young professionals to actively help make a difference;
- Improve the capacity of young professionals making a difference through information, knowledge and connectivity.
In numerical terms, the IYPF at present (ie the time of drafting this Strategy) brings together over 11 000 members from more than 80 countries worldwide and at least 50 professional fields. IYPF members speak most of the languages in the world and take positions from junior through senior to CEO and President levels in a wide range of organisations and institutions.
