Asheville's Young Professional's

Name: Asheville's Young Professional's
Address: 45 S French Broad Avenue, Asheville, NC, 28801, US
Telephone: +18282098995

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We connect people, develop leaders & build community to attract and retain young talent in Asheville.

11/02/2026

November's looking pretty good, Asheville! 👀

From coffee and community conversations to college basketball and giving back, we've got a little something for everyone this month!

Here's what's coming up:

🏛️ NOV 2: Government Relations Crew with NC Rep. Eric Ager | 9–10 AM

☕ NOV 12: Mug Club at Woodfin Coffee Department | 8:30–10 AM

🏀 NOV 18: AYPROS Night at UNC Asheville Men's Basketball | 6:30 PM

🤝 NOV 19: Leadership & Service at Bounty & Soul | 3–5:30 PM

No Pub Club this month with the holidays coming up, but don't worry! We're planning to bring it back in early December. 🍻

Mark your calendars! 📅 Stay tuned for more details and registration info coming soon!

10/27/2026

Want to better understand the decisions shaping Asheville and Buncombe County?

Join the AYPROS Government Relations Crew on Monday, November 2, for a conversation with NC House District 114 Representative Eric Ager.

With Election Day just around the corner, we’ll discuss issues affecting our community, hear directly from Rep. Ager, and have an opportunity to ask questions.

📍 Hatchworks Coworking | Asheville, NC
🗓️ Monday, November 2 | 9–10 AM

Coffee will be provided! ☕

All AYPROS members are welcome, whether you’re already involved in local government or just curious about how it works.

Register here: https://aypros.wildapricot.org/event-6888399

10/24/2026

Back in August, Asheville’s Young Professionals brought together over 200 folks - candidates, elected officials, and young professionals from across Asheville and Buncombe County for our inaugural 828 Lead All-Candidate Meet & Greet at Governor Stein’s Western Residence. The idea was pretty simple: give candidates a chance to introduce themselves, give voters an opportunity to meet the people asking for their votes, and make the whole experience feel a little less like politics and a lot more like a conversation. We invited every candidate appearing on the ballot in Asheville and Buncombe County, regardless of political affiliation, and gave everyone who participated the same opportunity to speak before opening up the rest of the evening for people to spend time together, ask questions, and get to know one another.

What we loved most was hearing what people took away from the experience. Some attendees told us it was their first time ever meeting someone running for public office, while others left knowing considerably more about races they hadn’t given much thought to before. There were conversations between people who probably wouldn’t have crossed paths otherwise, candidates getting to hear directly from the people they hope to represent, and young professionals realizing that the people making decisions about our community aren’t nearly as inaccessible as they might have thought. That’s really what we hoped 828 Lead would accomplish, because civic engagement shouldn’t begin and end at the ballot box. It starts with knowing who’s making decisions, understanding what’s happening in our community, and recognizing that we all have a place in those conversations, regardless of our backgrounds, political beliefs, or how involved we’ve been in the past.

With Election Day just around the corner, we hope some of those conversations are still on people’s minds as they prepare to vote. Asheville’s future belongs to all of us, and we’re pretty excited about the generation stepping up to help shape it.

Here are a few more of our favorite moments from the evening. 👉👉

Photo 1: Kimberly Lockett

Board President Joshua Wilson checking registrants in.

10/15/2026

This month's Pub Club is going underground! 👀🍻

Join us Tuesday, October 27, at Pack's Tavern for a Halloween-week happy hour with a little Asheville history thrown into the mix!

We'll be hanging out in Pack's Century Room on the Park, catching up with familiar faces, meeting new ones, and getting the chance to explore the historic underground tunnels beneath the building. 🔦

🍺 Your first drink is on us, thanks to our Pub Club Title Sponsor, Allen Stahl + Kilbourne

🔦 Small-group underground tunnel tours led by Pack's staff, subject to availability.

🍽️ Food and additional drinks available for purchase.

🎃 Feeling festive? Costumes are welcome but totally optional!

📍 Pack's Tavern | Downtown Asheville
📅 Tuesday, October 27 | 5–8 PM

As always, Pub Club is come-and-go, and first-timers are always welcome. Bring a friend or come solo. Either way, we'd love to see you!

🔗 Register for free: https://aypros.wildapricot.org/event-6858294

10/11/2026

Good company, a great cause, and a little love for Asheville’s shelter animals. 🐾

Join AYPROS on Friday, October 23, as we team up with Asheville Humane Society for an afternoon of hands-on volunteering!

We’ll help put together enrichment items like toys and treats that keep shelter animals engaged, reduce stress, and make their days a little brighter while they wait for their forever homes.

📍 Asheville Humane Society | Asheville, NC
📅 Friday, October 23 | 2–4 PM

Only 12 spots available! Come meet fellow young professionals, give back to our community, and help make a difference for local animals.

🔗 Register here: https://aypros.wildapricot.org/event-6874118

10/07/2026

Some photos from All Access.

Our Table Leaders came from far and wide to pour into and engage with Asheville’s young professionals.

Seated inside the halls of a country club Edith Vanderbilt helped bring to life more than a century ago, Biltmore Forest Country Club could not have been a more fitting setting for All Access.

Most professional events are pretty terrible. Same people at every one. Same conversations. Same small talk.

The people we brought to Asheville are people others spend thousands of dollars to hear from a stage, hoping maybe they’ll get thirty seconds with them afterward or a handshake over a book signing.

We stripped all of that away.

We brought them here, sat them around eight tables, and gave our young professionals real time with them. Fifteen minutes at a time. Four different conversations. No stage between them.

Notes were taken. Relationships were started. Contact information was exchanged. And we would bet there were quite a few follow-ups happening this morning.

This kind of access does not happen anywhere else in Asheville. Neither does leadership development quite like this. We were not interested in recreating the same event people have already been to a hundred times. We wanted to build something that raised the bar.

These aren’t just the leaders of some far-off future. These are the people who will be sitting in executive offices, running nonprofits, starting companies, serving on boards and holding public office five and ten years from now. They are quite literally part of the future of this city.

So you have to build things worthy of them.

Create events impressive enough that they want to be in the room. Make it worth their time and their money. Give them a reason to get dressed up, gather together and meet people they would not otherwise meet.

Bring them into rooms they may not normally have access to yet. Put them across the table from people who are several chapters ahead of them. Because one conversation really can change the course of someone’s career, business or life.

Don’t give young professionals a watered-down version of somebody else’s event.

Give them an event everyone wants to be invited to.

10/03/2026

Adding to our already INCREDIBLE lineup of table leaders, Jeff Immelt will be joining us this coming Tuesday!

There are big jobs, and then there is being chosen to succeed Jack Welch as Chairman & CEO of General Electric.

Jeff Immelt got that job four days before September 11, 2001.

Jeff grew up in Cincinnati with GE already woven into his life. His father spent nearly four decades with GE’s aircraft engine business. Jeff went on to Dartmouth, where he studied mathematics and economics, played offensive tackle and graduated cm laude, then earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.

In 1982, Jeff joined GE. He worked through GE Plastics, Appliances and GE Medical Systems before eventually being selected to lead the entire company.

On September 7, 2001, he became the ninth Chairman & CEO of General Electric.

Four days later, the world changed.
Jeff would lead GE for the next 16 years through 9/11, recessions, the global financial crisis and enormous technological disruption. At the beginning of his tenure, GE operated in more than 100 countries, employed more than 300,000 people and generated over $125 BILLION in annual revenue.

His leadership extended beyond GE. President Barack Obama selected Jeff to chair the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, bringing together leaders from business, labor and academia around economic growth and job creation.

Today, Jeff is a Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates, working with founders and growing companies across healthcare, industrial automation and emerging technology.
But what makes Jeff especially interesting for All Access is that he is willing to talk about the decisions that worked, the ones that didn’t, and what leadership actually feels like when hundreds of thousands of livelihoods are connected to your decisions.

What was it like succeeding Jack Welch? What happens when a crisis hits four days into the job? What would he do differently? What does Jeff Immelt know now that he wishes he knew when he was your age?

On October 6, you can ask him yourself. No keynote. No panel.

You get to sit at the table with him.

Link to remaining tickets in bio

10/03/2026

Adding another incredible Table Leader to AYPROS All Access: Karen LeVert, Founder & Managing Partner of LeVert Ventures.

Karen’s career is one of those stories that makes you rethink what an entrepreneurial path is supposed to look like.

She started at Nationwide Insurance, working her way from programmer to controller and eventually to general manager of a 500-person Property & Casualty service center.
Then she took the entrepreneurial leap.

Karen launched a bioremediation franchise, later sold it, joined the founding team of a Silicon Valley software company and eventually turned her attention to one of the hardest parts of innovation: taking promising ideas out of university research labs and turning them into real companies.

She went on to co-found Southeast TechInventures and Ag TechInventures, spending nearly two decades at the intersection of science, entrepreneurship and investment.

Today, Karen is Founder & Managing Partner of LeVert Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on AgTech, investing in areas like precision agriculture, animal technology, controlled-environment agriculture and biological crop protection. She also serves as a Venture Partner with Pappas Capital.

Her influence reaches well beyond the companies she backs. Karen has served on boards across North Carolina’s innovation and economic-development ecosystem and has been recognized with the Women in Agribusiness Demeter Award of Excellence and induction into the WRAL TechWire Hall of Fame.
She also holds an MBA from the University of Dayton.

That’s why we wanted Karen at All Access.

How do you know when a scientific breakthrough actually has a business behind it? What makes an early-stage founder investable? How do you turn research into something customers will actually pay for?

And after decades of building, investing and sitting on both sides of the table, what does Karen know now that she wishes she knew when she was your age?

On October 6, you get to ask her yourself.

No keynote. No panel. You get to sit at the table with her.

10/02/2026

We do things besides All Access ya know. We’re having the mayoral candidates for a conversation in the round. We’ll circle up Hatchworks Asheville Event Space and after some light formalities, have some conversational Q&A with our Mayor and City Councilor from 9-10 AM.

Coffee provided.

Link in bio

10/01/2026

Mug Club got an extra 30 minutes of sleep. You’re welcome. ☕

October Mug Club is headed downtown to Flour, and we’re trying out a NEW TIME: 8:30–10:00 AM.

Come grab some coffee, catch up with people you know, meet a few you don’t and ease into your
Thursday morning with us.

Never been to Mug Club? Come anyway. Show up solo, bring a friend or convince a coworker that this counts as starting the workday. It’s casual, come-and-go and very much not a meeting.

☕ Your first drip coffee is on us. If your morning requires something fancier (or breakfast), specialty drinks and other menu items will be available for purchase.

📍 Flour | Downtown Asheville
📅 Thursday, October 8
⏰ NEW TIME: 8:30–10:00 AM

Thirty more minutes of sleep. Coffee waiting when you get there. Seems like a pretty good Thursday.

RSVP and come hang with us. (Events link in bio.)

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Asheville, NC
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Telephone

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