Young Guru Academy

Young Guru Academy (YGA) Dream Partners Foundation
Founded 2002
Founder Sinan Yaman
Focus Socially responsible leadership
Location
Area served
 Turkey & United States
Key people
 Sinan Yaman (Chairman and Founder)
Gökhan Meriçliler (Co-President)
Enis Güray (Co-President)
Slogan An extraordinary leadership journey
Mission To select, educate, train and inspire creative innovative and socially responsible leaders
Website www.yga.org.tr

Young Guru Academy (YGA) Dream Partners Foundation is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) that works on socially responsible leadership, founded in 2002 by Young Business Guru of Turkey, Sinan Yaman.[1] YGA states its vision is to encourage tomorrow's leaders to deepen, enrich and inspire their collective creativity and unleash their social innovative potential and its mission is to select, educate, train and inspire creative innovative and socially responsible leaders.[2]

The organization is based in Istanbul, Turkey[3] and YGA, Inc. USA is incorporated in North Carolina, USA, IRS ruling on 501(c)(3), non-profit status is pending.[4]

YGA Leadership Program

YGA Leadership Program for its volunteers consists of 3 steps :[5][6]

  1. LDP: Leader Discovery Program : Seminars[7] and Project Workshop.
  2. LEP: Leader Educating / Training Program : Leadership School in Istanbul and Leadership Camp/ Conference in USA.
  3. LCP: Leader Development Program : Leader Coaching and Leadership Workshop.

YGA’s program for training socially responsible leaders begins with a leadership conference which takes place at the Lutfi Kirdar Congress Center in Istanbul. Every year, only 2000 leader candidates are accepted out of nearly 20,000 applicants via YGA’s website.[8]

Following the conference, the candidates submit a comprehensive written application evaluated by the YGA selection board who then selects 400 candidates for a face to face interview and selected candidates take part in a social responsibility project developed and implemented by YGA called Read-Think-Share.[8] The selected volunteers join the Read-Think-Share program as moderators in the YGA libraries in disadvantaged elementary schools all around Turkey for a year. A number of candidates are selected to attend the YGA International Leadership School[9]

Upon the completion of the YGA International Leadership School, a group of volunteers is selected to attend the YGA USA Leadership Camp which takes place in New York, Washington, D.C., Raleigh and Figure Eight Island.[10][11]

During the YGA leadership program the young leaders learn through YGA lecturers such as İlber Ortaylı, İzzet Garih, Ali Sabancı, Prof. Aydın Uğur, Hüsnü Özyeğin, Ali Koç, Çetin Yüceuluğ, Sinan Yaman, Tınaz Titiz, Ümran Beba, Prof. Erhan Erkut, Muzaffer Akpınar, Scott Berrie, Jim Rasmussen, Yuri Khlebnikov and Virginia Foxx as well as visiting different NGOs.[5]

After the completion of the America Leadership Camp, the lifelong training of YGA graduates continues with a leadership development program called Leader Mentoring. Every month, graduates of YGA leadership program meet in a different city and organize activities and in-depth interviews with leaders from all fields to gain new perspectives on leadership development skills and ideas to further their projects.[12]

Projects

The following are the projects, created and implemented by volunteers: Read-Think-Share,[13] Empowerment of Visually Impaired Youth,[14] Global Servant Leaders,[15] Brain Migration to Disadvantaged Schools, Rising Stars Leadership Program,[16] Change Makers,[17] Leadership Camp for Rural School Teachers and Dream Partnership with Boarding Schools through the Read-Think-Share Project. As of 2009, throughout Turkey, 87 YGA Libraries have been serving the potential future leaders through the implementation of YGA’s Read-Think–Share Project.[18]

Young Guru Academy was one of the FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) Global partners of Harvard Business School in 2012.[19]

References

  1. ↑ The Light Millennium Organization - "Some people make the world a better place just by being in it..."
  2. ↑ YGA Website - About Us - Vision
  3. ↑ YGA Website - Contact
  4. ↑ YGA Website - Local Press
  5. 1 2 YGA Website - Leadership Pyramid
  6. ↑ YGA Website - FAQ
  7. ↑ Hürriyet Daily News - "Turkish non-profit raises new leadership for Turkey"
  8. 1 2 Hurriyet Daily News - "Turkish non-profit raises new leadership for Turkey"
  9. ↑ YGA Website - Leadership School
  10. ↑ YGA Website - USA Leadership Camp
  11. ↑ http://www.yga.org.tr/en/sss.asp
  12. ↑ YGA Website - Leader Coaching
  13. ↑ YGA Website - Read, Think, Share
  14. ↑ YGA Website - Visually Impaired People
  15. ↑ YGA Website - GSL
  16. ↑ YGA Website - RSLP
  17. ↑ YGA Website - Servant Leaders
  18. ↑ YGA Website - Read, Think, Share
  19. ↑ Harvard Business School- FIELD Global Partners 2011-2012

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