The Future Leaders Network (FLN) is excited to co-host a Skills-Building Workshop with YPFP London, designed to equip students and young professionals with the expertise needed to drive impactful change at the intersection of foreign policy, climate action, and global innovation.

This interactive session will explore how state and non-state actors tackle climate change collectively, major global mechanisms in climate negotiations, and the key competencies required to influence policy at the highest levels.

✍️ What You’ll Gain:
✅ Foundations of Foreign Policy & Climate Diplomacy
✅ Key Foreign Policy Skills for Emerging Leaders
✅ Diplomacy & Negotiation: A hands-on simulation of climate negotiations
✅ Advocacy & Communication: Strategies to influence global climate policies
✅ Career Pathways & Opportunities in foreign policy and climate

🔹 Meet Our FLN Speakers:

💡 Juhie Radia (Y7 2024 - Climate Delegate)
Juhie is a community activist and data analyst, dedicated to bridging the gap between youth, sustainability, and policy. An advocate for green skills education and diversity, she has worked with businesses, charities, and youth groups to empower young people and drive impactful change. Recognised as an Emerging Leader by Brandpie and awarded the Industrial Cadets Platinum Leader Award, Juhie has addressed global business leaders on how to support youth leadership in sustainability. 

🌱 Tom Maidment (Y20 2024 - Head Delegate)
Tom has spent his career working with businesses to tackle climate change. From leading the net-zero strategy at Jaguar Land Rover to his current role as Group Product Sustainability Senior Manager at Hilton Foods, he has worked across sectors to drive sustainability. A passionate advocate for technical education and youth participation in climate policy, Tom co-founded a company to improve public understanding of the carbon footprint of food. 

🚀 Paula Imafidon (Y20 2024 - Innovation & Future of Work Delegate)
Paula is a trailblazer in innovation and education. Holding multiple world records in mathematics, she has dedicated her career to empowering underrepresented talent and creating opportunities for diverse voices in policy and industry. Now a Lead Analyst at Bank of New York Mellon, Paula has been recognised for her advocacy and mentorship in supporting early-career women in STEM and finance. 

🏆 Panel Moderator:
🎙️ Carter Cheng (Managing Director, YPFP London)

🎉 Event Details:
📅 Date: 10 March 2025 (Monday)
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (UK Time)
📍 Venue: Online (Zoom)
👥 Spaces: Limited to 70 participants (first come, first served)
📌 Sign-up Deadline: 7 March 2025, 23:59 (UK Time) (rolling sign-up)
🔗 Zoom Link: Sent to confirmed participants 2 days before the event

👉 Register now: https://forms.gle/YjY9mA5YA2aRuR1n9 

FLN and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (London) are organising a panel discussion gathering former UK youth climate delegates who attended the G7, G20 and COP summits. They will discuss the role, impact, opportunities and challenges for youth climate diplomacy against a backdrop of insufficient action and growing emergency.

Juhie Radia, Tom Maidment and Samia Dumbuya will share experiences of championing youth interests, as well as of negotiating, structuring and co-authoring joint policy statements in multilateral discussions. With COP recently concluded, they will also reflect on the progress made so far and the steps still to be taken.

Event Details:

🗓 Sunday 8 December 2024, 7-8 PM (UK Time)

💻 Online (Zoom) (max capacity 70)

🔗Sign-up link: https://lnkd.in/e-hdBj8j

Sign-up deadline: 5 Dec 2024, 23:59 (UK time) (rolling sign-up)

Confirmation of Places: Zoom link will be sent 2 days prior

FLN and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (London) are organising a panel discussion gathering former UK youth delegates who attended the G7 and G20 summits. They will discuss the role, impact, opportunities and challenges for youth diplomacy in a changing world.

Loshini Suben, Folu Ogunyeye and Theo Harris will share experiences of championing youth interests, as well as of negotiating, structuring and co-authoring joint policy statements in multilateral discussions. With the US election soon to be concluded, they will also reflect how world events, geopolitical volatility and slowing globalisation have shaped the tone of deliberations, the substance of agreements and the relationships with counterparts.

🎉Event Details
🗓Thursday 28 November 2024, 7-8 PM (UK Time)
📍Online (Zoom) (max capacity 70)
🔗Sign-up link: https://lnkd.in/dm6QTcrr
Sign-up deadline: 25 Nov 2024, 23:59 (UK time) (rolling sign-up)
Confirmation of Places: Zoom link will be sent 2 days prior

As the severity and number of conflicts grows, extreme weather events increase and public trust in government weakens, strong leadership is needed to face the myriad of challenges confronting the global system. In recent years, young people have asserted themselves on the world stage with more energy and vision than their national and international leaders.

What does it take to lead within a system that undervalues young voices? What skills will future leaders need to navigate the challenges they will face? In this roundtable, Common Futures Conversations and the Future Leaders Network London will bring together a diverse group of young people to discuss the skills, vision and preparation that will be most useful as they come into positions of greater power and influence.

To attend, please complete this short application form by 23:59 on Saturday 13 May 2023!

To sign up for tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flns-spring-gathering-tickets-276515052967

When? Saturday 2nd April 2022, 10 am - 5 pm BST, followed by a networking reception in the evening.

Where? FLN’s London Office, (EC2, London - you’ll receive the full address in your Joining Instructions!)

Who? Young people aged 18-30 years who are passionate about youth leadership and want to make a positive difference in the world today.

Great leaders inspire and motivate others to take action in pursuit of a common, wider goal. They understand the "Power of Why".

But what about you? Do you know your personal 'Why'? Are you clear about the impact you’d like to have on the world, or why other people should be led by you?

We know these can seem like big questions - so big, you might not even want to start trying to answer them. But if you want to change the world, starting off with you, your purpose and your calling is the only way to do it.
And… we’ve got you covered! We’re a non-profit organisation aimed at discovering and developing the next generation of leaders in the U.K. We’re passionate about equipping young people with the experiences, skills, and networks they need to become effective, ethical leaders who affect positive change in the world… and we’re offering you a 1 day training programme where you can explore and discover your Personal Purpose!

FAQs: https://www.futureleaders.network/spring-event-faqs

Terms and Conditions: https://www.futureleaders.network/events-terms-and-conditions

FLN’s 2021 Annual Conference is here - organised by the youth for the youth!

Future Leaders Network Annual Conference 2021 Tickets, Mon 6 Dec 2021 at 12:00 | Eventbrite

In its second year, the Future Leaders Network Annual Conference 2021 is this year focussing on how young people are stepping up to save the world.

From climate activists who took to the streets (and stage) at COP26; to young social entrepreneurs and innovators turning radical ideas into meaningful enterprise - this is your chance to meet with the next generation of changemakers who are making waves across the U.K. and the world.

The Conference will also serve as the Closing Ceremony for the Y7, which the Future Leaders Network has chaired this year. With this year’s Y7 having made strides in pushing mental health onto the G7’s agenda, we're delighted to welcome Dr Alex George, A&E & TV doctor and the Prime Minister's Ambassador for Youth Mental Health to close the Y7 2021 and share some reflections with us.

We are the leaders of tomorrow - making a difference today.

Agenda:

12:00 - 12:30 - Opening remarks and networking

• Sophie Daud, CEO of the Future Leaders Network

12:30 - 13:20 - Climate Change: Young People Stepping Up to Face the Climate Crisis

• Emily Vernall, Future Leaders Network COP26 Delegate

• Laurence Kemball-Cook, founder and CEO of Pavegen

• Sacha Wright, Research and Impact Coordinator, Force of Nature

• Madeline Constance, youth activist

13:30 - 14:20 - Digital and Technology: Young Leaders Changing our Online World

Jenk Oz, founder of Thred Media

14:30 - 15:20 - Innovation: Young People Transforming Radical Ideas into Real-World Action

• Dr Casey Woodward, founder of Agrisound

• Kate Walker, founder of ExpHand Prosthetics

• Karen Jelenje, Founder and Director at Activate the City!

15:30 - 16:20 - Workshop: How Will You Change the World? Find your Personal Purpose

• An interactive session from our Future Leaders Network Academy

17:00 - 19:00 - Y7 2021 Closing Ceremony and Handover to the 2022 German Organising Committee

• Dr Alex George, A&E and TV doctor and the Prime Minister’s Youth Mental Health Ambassador
  

Join us for our very first FLN Academy Module on Communicating with Confidence. Elliot Kay, co-founder of Speaker Express, internationally acclaimed speaker and coach, will deliver the session on how to master nerves, structure a gripping speech and communicate with confidence.

Tickets start at £15 (and are free if you are unemployed - just contact us at hello@futureleaders.network).

Buy your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fln-academy-communicating-to-influence-module-tickets-130101684641

Join us as our very own CEO Sophie Daud spends an hour in conversation with former Prime Minister Theresa May

Tickets here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/131212531213

Want to know more about the G7 and how YOU can become a Y7 delegate?

Join us as Rt Hon David Miliband and former G8&G20 Sherpa Sir Jon Cunliffe discuss the successes and challenges of international affairs alongside G7&G20 academic experts Julia Kulik, Dr Tristen Naylor, and Spogmay Ahmed.

Learn more about how you can get involved in the Y7 and what makes an effective delegate in this exclusive roundtable event which kicks off the opening of applications to represent the UK at the Y7 2021.

This event is not to be missed!

When? 1st December 2020 @ 6pm-7pm

Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-is-the-g7-roundtable-event-tickets-130287079161

Tickets here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-is-the-g7-roundtable-event-tickets-130287079161

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

• 6:00 PM 7:30 PM

In this session we will explore the subject of happiness and the approaches that leaders can take to improve their happiness for themselves and those around them. The sessions will be jointly led by Felicitie Walls (Future Leaders Network) and Leah Sier (Scouts Cymru).

Get your tickets here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-teatime-club-understanding-wellbeing-improving-leadership-tickets-128423322615

Friday, September 18, 2020

• 8:30 AM 9:30 AM

Join us for our next virtual Breakfast Club where we’ll be discussing COVID-19 as a Gendered Issue!

With an increase in domestic violence, the added workload on mothers balancing childcare whilst working from home, and the front-line care workforce being predominantly female during the pandemic, we’ll be discussing some of the ways in which women have been affected by COVID-19. We’ll also be examining the other side of the COVID-19 gender gap that has led to a higher death rate among men with very little insight into why. How can we alleviate the differing pressures on men and women during this pandemic?

Thursday, October 29, 2020

• 6:30 PM 7:30 PM

We will be welcoming a panel of young Black leaders from across the UK to discuss the most important issues of racial inequality and how we can all do more to fight racism.

Our panellists:

Shantel Shenxane: Founder of Trinity Wellbeing

Usaama Kaweesa: Young Activist and Community Hero

Jonas Andrew-Phillip: CEO and Founder of Ace Your Ambition

Toni Fola-Alade: Y20 Delegate and co-founder of DoGood Africa

Dylan Kawende: Co-founder of Elevation Foundation

Lola Olaore: Y20 Delegate and Founder of ThinkHER Ambition

Marcel Hedman: Future Leaders Network Head of Business Development

Click here to get your tickets!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-history-month-roundtable-tickets-126350799643

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

• 6:00 PM 7:00 PM

In this two-part session we invite young leaders to reflect on their existing networks and consider how they build, grow and maintain their personal, operational and strategic networks.

Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-teatime-club-build-and-grow-your-networks-part-2-tickets-123577043263

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

• 6:00 PM 7:00 PM

Friday, October 23, 2020

• 8:30 AM 9:30 AM

Join us for our Virtual Breakfast Club where we will be celebrating and discussing Black History Month!

The 2020 Black History Month has been identified as the most important month in the 33 years of BHM.

We'll be discussing topics such as how we can meaningfully celebrate Black History Month, how we can educate society on the issues of racial inequality, and how we can ensure the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement continues.