The Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports hosted the Norwegian National Olympic Academy in Lillehammer from 1st to 4th August 2019. The Academy gathered 54 young leaders, coaches and volunteers in Norwegian sports aged between 18-29 years. 23 of the participants were men and 31 women. The theme for 2019 was: “The will to say it!”The Norwegian Sports Confederation involved 6 young previous participants to take part in a working group to plan, implement and evaluate the National Olympic Academy in 2019. The workgroup had participants from both the regional and the national confederations.The workgroup had 3 meetings online to share ideas and to plan the programme, its implementation and its evaluation before the National Olympic Academy started.The National Olympic Academy in 2019 had a varied program with lectures, group discussions, workshops and social and physical activities.The evaluation shows that the participants were very satisfied with the programme. Sharing knowledge and experiences with each other across sports, roles and backgrounds is always highly appreciated among the participants, so it is always important for the National Olympic Academies to set aside enough time in the programme for such valuable group discussions, time to ask the lecturers questions and “free time” to discuss with each other.