Invest in Your People. Watch Them Lead.
Skills-first events for Franco-British early-career professionals, within their first 10 years of their career. Launching October 2026, three events a year, one growing community.
Send your rising talent to NexGen. They come back sharper, better connected, and more confident in the room
The most valuable thing an early to mid-career professional develops isn't technical skill, it's the ability to communicate, connect, and lead. NexGen is a curated circle built by the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce to develop exactly that. Each event brings together ambitious early to mid-career professionals from across Franco-British business for a structured experience, part professional development, part real networking, in settings that make both feel natural. Companies who send their rising talent to NexGen are investing in the skills that show up in client meetings, pitches, and boardrooms.
Skills the room can't teach unless you're in it.
Why Companies Invest in NexGen
Skills That Transfer Directly to
Work
Networking, communication, stakeholder confidence: the interpersonal skills built at NexGen show up in your team's client meetings, pitches, and leadership moments.
A Network That Grows With Your Business
Your team builds peer relationships across Franco-British business. Today's roundtable participant is tomorrow's CFO, client, or partner.
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Franco-British Fluency,
Built Early
For businesses across France and the UK, NexGen builds the cultural intelligence and cross-border relationships that take years to develop organically, accelerated.
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Retention Through Genuine Investment
Early to mid-career professionals stay where they feel invested in. NexGen is a visible, tangible signal that your company cares about their growth, not just their output.
What They Develop
Professionals who feel their growth is invested in stay longer
Networking
The cross-border, Franco-British cultural intelligence that normally takes years of working across markets to develop organically accelerated through direct exposure to leaders on both sides of the Channel.
Confidence
Real, structured opportunities to build relationships with peers and senior leaders across Franco-British business. Not small talk, the start of connections that last a career.
Commercial IQ
Speaking up in client meetings, pitches, and boardrooms. NexGen builds the stakeholder confidence that only comes from practicing in the room, not reading about it.
Cultural Fluency
An understanding of how business actually gets done: reading a room, building a personal brand, and turning relationships into opportunities.
Want to Become a Sponsor?
NexGen puts your brand in front of the next generation of Franco-British business leaders, ambitious, early to mid-career professionals from across France and the UK, gathered three times a year in settings built for real connection. Sponsorship isn't a logo on a banner; it's a seat at the table with the people shaping Franco-British business for the next decade.
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Sponsors can support the programme in a few ways: headline sponsorship of a single event (Padel Tournament, Networking Workshop, or Mentoring Evening), branding across the full 2026-27 season, or in-kind support such as venues, catering, or prizes. Every option includes visibility across NexGen's marketing, event materials, and the CCFGB's wider Franco-British network.