About YPO. The global leadership community of extraordinary chief executives. In the fall of , YPO founder Ray Hickok laid the groundwork to create a unique organization for chief executive peers to join. From our humble beginnings, YPO has achieved many milestones to become the premier leadership organization of chief executives in the world. Dues are prorated monthly for new members according to join date. Conditional Members may not serve as sponsors. Each sponsoring Member is responsible for knowing the prospect well before he or she agrees to sponsor.
By agreeing to be a sponsor, the Member is committing to make every effort to attend the Big 3 meeting to which the prospect is invited, serving as the prospect host. If this is not possible, the sponsor agrees to assist in finding a host for the prospect. About YPO Southern 7. About YPO. Why Join? Contact Us. Given the size of YPO Chicago, the Chapter Retreat is a vital way to enable members to meet other members and establish meaningful relationships beyond forums.
YPO Chicago intends to hold retreats bi-annually. Because of the tremendous interest in joining YPO Chicago the Chapter is unable to accept all who meet the quantitative criteria.
Candidates unlikely to be successful are generally referred to other Chicago area YPO chapters. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Hickok had a list of prospective members compiled, contacted them in person, and found them receiptive. Housen's reasons for joining YPO reflected Hickok's concern. I say 'popcorn,' and they say, 'Terrific! I go to a YPOer and say 'popcorn,' and he says, 'Bull! What'dya mean, popcorn? About one-third of the companies are publicly traded, and some are among the biggest in the country.
The financial criteria differ for service companies and banks. The candidate must be recommended by two members of a local chapter and approved by a committee of the board of directors. Prospective members may approach the organization directly, but most are scouted by current members. On their 50th birthdays, members are awarded a rocking chair and drummed out.
Hickok, now 63, is the only lifetime member. Although he sold Hickok Manufacturing in , he remains active with Ray Hickok Associates, a mergers and acquisitions concern, and the Ray Hickok Collection, which puts out a series of wildlife photographs, both based in Rochester, N.
Many members, like Housen, regard the YPO affiliation as the most valuable of their business career. I mean, there were ways to do things, such as, how do you put together a financing program without putting everything on the line? How do you set up a communications system between your plant here and your plant in Indiana? Housen notes that as his colleagues leave YPO many of them sell their businesses, get divorced, or crack up.
A tall, beefy man with thick features who occasionally refers to himself as "a boy from the small town of Erving," Housen has smoothed away the rough edges with education and impeccable tailoring. He seems the complete cosmopolitan. But it wasn't so in , when he emerged as the general manager of Erving Paper Mills after his uncle died and his father retired. Housen had a degree in economics, attended law school, and worked in the company.
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