Eric Chester

Biography

Eric Chester is the only keynote speaker in the world who helps business leaders understand and overcome the decline in work ethic in today`s workforce. He`s written the first business book on developing work ethic in more than 100 years, and his video-enriched presentations are striking a resounding chord with business, governmental, and educational leaders everywhere.

Widely known for his breakaway books and presentations on Generation Y (aka `the Millennials`), Eric`s clients asked him to advance the conversation past generational differences. After interviewing 1500 diverse business owners, executives, and managers, he discovered the primary concern on behalf of employers and educators everywhere is the lack of work ethic and the sense of entitlement of the new emerging workforce.

Eric`s 5th book, Reviving Work Ethic: A Leader`s Guide to Ending Entitlement and Restoring Pride in the Emerging Workforce, has been endorsed by CEO`s of household brands like 7-11, Snap-On Tools, Brookstone Stores, and Golden Corral restaurants. His keynote of the same name is fast-paced, wildly entertaining, and packed with actionable ideas for driving productivity, performance, and service through young employees.

Eric is also the Founder and CEO of the Bring Your A Game to Work Initiative, a comprehensive work ethic training and certification program for teens and young adults.

As a professional speaker for 25 years (the first 12 as a speaker for youth and for educators and administrators in thousands of schools across the US), Eric Chester has spent the last 12 years working with employers of young people as the authority on Generation Y coming into the workplace. He has presented for hundreds of major national brands including McDonalds, Wells Fargo, Toys-R-Us, and Harley-Davidson.

Additionally, he`s presented hundreds of staff development programs and worked with numerous associations, organizations, and groups in both the public and private sectors at the state and national level. Chester`s programs can be adapted to fit any audience.

Eric and his wife Lori live in Golden, Colorado.

Publications

Reviving Work Ethic:
A Leader`s Guide to Ending Entitlement and Restoring Pride in the Emerging Workforce

WORK ETHIC IN AMERICA is fast declining, plaguing young and old alike. But in Reviving Work Ethic, Eric Chester shows that managers and leaders do best to focus on their young employees -- those whose habits and ideals can still be influenced.

He presents an incisive look at the root of the entitlement mentality that afflicts many in the emerging workforce and shows readers the specific actions they can take to give their employees a deep commitment to performing excellent work.

Reviving Work Ethic is the culmination of years of research as well as presentations to over two million youth. Chester`s experience shows in his confident analysis of the seven components of work ethic and in his proven strategies for handing them down to young employees.

Titles

~Reviving Work Ethic

~Driving Profits and Performance Through Young Employees

~The Aliens Have Landed! Meet Generation Why; Your New Workforce

~Getting Them to Give a Damn! How to Get Your Front Line to Care About Your Bottom Line.

~Employing Generation Why

~How to get there from Here

~Customer Service

~Lighting Your Own Fuse