YLab.

We employ young people with different lived experiences to bring fresh, impactful solutions to design the future. We flip power dynamics by putting young people in the driver’s seat.

The Story so far

Since launching in 2016 we've recruited, trained, and developed over 100 YLab Associates, each with their own multidisciplinary skills, future-focused ideas, and different lived experiences.

We are imagined by the Foundation for Young Australians and certified by Social Traders as a social enterprise.

we are divergent thinkers

Young People

We employ young people with diverse lived experience and technical expertise.

The Work

We connect Associates with clients to solve complex problems, change systems, and design the future.

Learning

We give our Associates a leg up with learning and development.

Co-design and Systems Thinking

We do it all using systems thinking and co-design.

what we offer

We’ve built a workforce of young people thriving in the gig economy, bringing fresh perspectives, to design the future. 

We tackle inequality by placing young people with different lived experiences and technical expertise at the centre of regenerating institutions in every sector and every system.

Work with us

Co-design and Facilitation

We put YLab Associates, young people with lived experience and clients together to solve complex problems.

Creative Services

We make content that reaches out and reflects young people. Our creative services include video production, creative direction, editorial, copywriting, marketing and design.

Research and Insights

We find out what young people want and need to navigate an uncertain future.

Learning and Development

We give young people a leg up by providing immersive, relevant and practical learning and training experiences.

First Nations

We provide a platform for young mob to be agents for change in creating new self determined solutions.

Strategy

We put young people at the centre of designing and implementing strategies within organisations and across systems.

Our People

We bring people together with different lived experience and diverse technical expertise.

our clients

Our clients recognise the unique value of Australia’s young people in generating positive systems change.

CHANGE THE SYSTEM



We would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet and work throughout Australia. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging and recognise that sovereignty has never ceded.

We are certified by Social Traders
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