Are Your Students Ready to Thrive in the Real World?
Next-Gen Hospitality Leaders equips soon-to-be graduates and interns across industries with mentoring, leadership coaching, and a supportive community. Our network helps students secure the right roles and step into their careers with confidence, soft skills, and alignment.
We help you build tomorrow's leaders, today.
"Leadership isn’t built in a day. It’s nurtured over time, with the right support."
Isabelle von Burg, Founder of NGHL
Today, 70% of young professionals leave within their first year
How are you turning this challenge into an opportunity?
Why Hospitality Schools Choose NGHL?
Boost Employability & Reputation
Students and graduates step into internships and first jobs confident, capable, and ready to perform, enhancing your school’s prestige and placement success.
Master Soft Skills
Students develop essential leadership and human skills: communication, teamwork, emotional intelligence, and resilience, adapted for the real world.
Mentorship & Support
Through structured guidance and mentoring, students feel supported, less overwhelmed, and empowered to navigate real-world challenges.
Employer Perception
Graduates are seen by recruiters and industry partners as ready-to-contribute talent, positioning your school as a producer of highly capable professionals.
What is Next-Gen Hospitality Leaders?
Next-Gen Hospitality Leaders (NGHL) is a 6 to 12-month, online leadership accelerator designed to help Gen Z - from interns to graduates - thrive in hospitality and other people-first industries.
NGHL combines continuous leadership development, mentorship, and community support in one dynamic ecosystem, helping participants build the emotional and human skills needed to lead with clarity, confidence, and impact.
In a world where nearly 70% of young professionals leave within their first year, NGHL goes beyond inspiration, offering structure, guidance, and real transformation. Through weekly sessions, expert insights, and peer connection, future leaders grow from the inside out, ready to thrive beyond the pressures of day-to-day operations.
20+
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Years of leadership experience
Led iconic brands including Four Seasons, The Ritz-Carlton, Lausanne Palace and more.
Happy clients
Trusted by companies across hospitality, wellness, luxury retail, banking and beyond.
Inside the NGHL Experience
At NGHL, leadership development is not a one-off training, it is a continuous, high-impact journey.
With our monthly rhythm of live sessions, participants build confidence, sharpen leadership skills, grow their network, and gain clarity to land roles aligned with their ambitions.
NG Masterminds
Collaborative sessions where emerging leaders tackle real challenges, exchange ideas, and strengthen power skills like emotional intelligence, communication, empathy, and resilience.
Each week, the NGHL community sets the theme, bringing fresh perspectives and practical solutions, helping participants grow through shared experience and real-world application.
NG Career Labs
Interactive sessions where students learn practical tools and techniques to sharpen their career skills, from networking, CVs and LinkedIn profiles to interviews and personal branding.
These labs build clarity, confidence, and the skills needed to step into internships and first roles with impact.
NG Meet Ups
Informal speed networking events connecting students with experts, alumni, recruiters and mentors across different industries.
These sessions foster clarity, and connection, through open conversation, shared experience, and intergenerational insight.
NG Pathfinders
Group sessions that help students discover their path, set meaningful goals in line with their life vision and build leadership confidence.
Participants reflect, plan, and track their growth by filling out their Personal Development Plan, all with expert guidance and peer support.
What's Included in the Program
Everything your talent needs to find the right opportunity, grow, thrive and lead with confidence.
The NGHL Program includes:
6 or 12-month access to the full Leadership Accelerator experience
2 or 4 personalized 1:1 coaching or mentoring sessions
24 or 48 live collective sessions throughout the year, including:
NG Career Labs - Career readiness workshops
NG Masterminds - Peer-led sessions to build leadership skills
NG Pathfinders - Group coaching and goal-setting
NG Meet-Ups - Community networking events for connection, collaboration, and support
Recordings of all Career Labs and Masterminds
Access to a vibrant community of emerging leaders across the hospitality and service industry
24/7 access to resources, group chats, and discussion spaces for continuous learning and peer support
Quarterly progress check-ins and reports, designed to support both individual growth and organisational insight
"Isabelle has managed to rekindle the spark of passion for this industry that had left me. The NGHL community she created is simply a true burst of kindness. All the members share the same human values, and it feels so good! And of course, the calls and conferences organized weekly have really helped me evolve, both professionally and personally."
Fanny M., Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts
"I’ve known Isabelle for over seven years now, so I’m not surprised she came up with such a fresh, human-centered approach to leadership. What she has built for the next-generation of leaders is truly unique and exactly what the industry needs."
Aurélie F., Director Spa & Wellness - Montreux
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What our clients say...
"It's been a true relief for me to hear about Next-Gen Hospitality Leaders. I joined about 8 months ago and can't stop raving about the program! For me, it’s not a duty, it’s a gift. I consider it as my personal 'me-time' to grow, reflect, and recharge."
Katharina O., Marketing Coordinator, Marriott International
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How NGHL Works
Partnering with NGHL is simple and tailored to your organization’s needs. Whether you’re sponsoring a single emerging leader or launching a company-wide initiative, this 5-step journey shows how we identify top talent, onboard them, and support their growth through an ongoing leadership program.
Step 1: Selection
Schools or Companies identify their top emerging talent - interns and soon to be graduates - ready to take their first steps into the real-world
Step 2: Assessment
We conduct personal interviews to ensure each candidate aligns with NGHL’s values, mindset, and commitment to growth.
Step 3: Enrollment
Successful candidates are welcomed into the NGHL community and onboarded into our leadership accelerator experience for a minimum of 6 months.
Step 4: Development
Through career skills labs, masterminds, meet-ups, group coaching sessions, and optional 1:1 mentoring, participants build leadership skills, confidence, and real-world impact.
Step 5: Reporting
Progress reports, designed to support both personal, professional growth and organizational insight.
The Leader Behind the Movement...
With over 20 years in global luxury hospitality, leading teams at iconic brands like the Lausanne Palace, The Ritz-Carlton, Mandarin Oriental, and Four Seasons, Isabelle von Burg helps schools and organizations prepare students to thrive and perform through people-first, transformative leadership.
As a certified business coach, I specialize in developing and empowering Gen Z talent through masterminds, group coaching, career skills labs, and community meet-ups. My approach is rooted in authenticity, collaboration, and real-world impact, helping emerging leaders step confidently into their careers and thrive.
By 2027, Millennials and Gen Z will represent 75% of the global workforce.
Is your organization ready to help them lead it?
Let's Connect
Ready to see how NGHL can transform your students’ or employees’ potential into real-world impact? Schedule a full presentation or meeting with us to explore the program and how it fits your organization’s goals.
Let’s build the next generation of leaders, together.
