Jason Ryan Dorsey teaches young professionals how to reach their goals faster by delivering more value to their employer.
Jason has a gift for teaching Gen Y—his own generation—how to advance their career by helping their employer get ahead. His message helps young professionals develop their talent and drive company growth in any economy.
Jason’s work with young professionals began when he wrote his first bestselling book, Graduate to Your Perfect Job, at age 18. This book became required reading in 1,650 colleges, secondary schools, and workforce development programs. It is estimated over 100,000 members of Gen Y have used Graduate to Your Perfect Job as a resource to enter the workforce. The success of Jason’s first book launched him into speaking to Gen Y on how to get ahead in the workforce. Jason’s unique brand of high-energy comedy and practical strategies quickly made him the most sought after speaker to Gen Y audiences in the US. In fact, Jason has earned standing ovations from Gen Y audiences as large as 13,000!
In recognition of his business achievements, Jason won the Austin Under 40 Entrepreneur of the Year Award at age 25—one of the youngest winners ever.
When working with your young professionals, Jason will customize his message to your talent development priorities, industry trends, and company culture. In short, Jason will teach your young professionals how to impact your organization in a way that aligns their ambition and your workforce priorities.
Jason’s Most Requested Young Professional Keynotes and Seminars:
Outgrow Your Cubicle: How to Get Promoted By Adding Value Where it Matters Most
60-Minute Keynote to 3-Hour Seminar
Gen Y young professionals and new hires are eager to discover the fastest path to the top. In Outgrow Your Cubicle, Jason teaches them how to develop their talent and grow their company’s bottom line. These strategies and actions lead to increased responsibility, recognition, opportunity, and promotions. Jason delivers this practical message by sharing wisdom from seasoned managers and executives along with insights gleaned from young professionals who found the fast track to career success. By focusing on practical workplace actions and thinking—what they don’t teach you in college but should—participants in Outgrow Your Cubicle learn to go from a frontline leader, to a team player, to a problem-solver and strategist, to a results-driven professional. Every employee who attends this program leaves with the know-how to stand out in the cubicle crowd and be rewarded for their initiative.
A note to managers and HR professionals: This program is not about shortcuts or avoiding paying your dues. Instead, Outgrow Your Cubicle focuses on tangible workplace skills and a can-do attitude that increase an employee’s value to their employer.
Crossing the Generational Divide Presentation Outcomes:
- Learn the actions to take immediately and repeatedly that improve your value to the company.
- Become a catalyst for workplace innovation, teamwork, customer service, and communication.
- Deliver on commitments large and small while leading others to do the same.
Audience: Outgrow Your Cubicle is ideal for young professionals, management trainees, soon-to-be graduates, and employees with less than 10 years of workforce experience.
Events: Outgrow Your Cubicle is a great fit for Leadership Development Programs, Talent Development Programs, Orientation Programs, Management Trainings, Internship Programs, and Young Professional tracks at industry conferences and company meetings.
Customization and Reinforcement: Jason’s presentation includes a pre-event phone call, confidential employment data review, customized multi-page handout, and personalized follow-up actions.
“Jason Ryan Dorsey is an amazing speaker for Young Professionals. His boundless energy and enthusiasm permeated the entire room and kept our audience entertained and focused. I was so impressed at his ability to tell his story and weave real life examples into his presentation. He left the audience filled with a sense of optimistic energy that was palpable. I highly recommend Jason as a speaker for your next Young Professionals event.”
Nicole Tierney Weber
Association Education Alliance
“At Random House, we have access to an abundance of training and seminar options. Jason’s message was unique in that he quickly connected with our entry level employees through his energy, stories, and message. They responded extremely well and left his program with specific actions they could use immediately. Working with Jason was a pleasure. He customized his presentation to meet our needs and did his homework in advance to understand our population. As HR professionals we’re always looking for ways to motivate our staff—especially our entry level employees—and Jason was able to do exactly that.”
Ann Weinerman, Manager, Training and Employee Development
Random House, Inc.
“To know Jason is to know a man with great passion and sizzling with excitement! He is one of the most dynamic communicators of our time. He inspires business owners of all ages to dream big with his straight talk and love of people.”
Delano Wilson, 29-year-old Owner-Operator
McDonald’s Franchises
Crossing the Generational Divide for Young Professionals: Making the Four Generations in Your Workplace A Company and Career Advantage
60-MINUTE KEYNOTE TO HALF-DAY SEMINAR
For the first time in US history, four distinctly different generations are working side by side. Equally unprecedented is the number of young professionals tasked with leading or working on multigenerational teams. Each of the four generations in the workforce (Matures, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y) is guided by a different set of values, beliefs, and expectations. In Crossing the Generational Divide for Young Professionals, bestselling author Jason Ryan Dorsey entertainingly reveals each generation’s preferences and priorities to highlight what they bring to the workforce—and how young professionals can build on their common ground.
Jason then shares his frontline-tested process which young professionals can immediately rely on to effectively work alongside and lead people of all ages. Specific outcomes from this process include better cross-generation communication, innovation, trust, teamwork, and discretionary performance. Filled with surprising statistics, step-by-step strategies, and laugh-out-loud stories, participants leave this presentation prepared to make their multigenerational workplace a company and career advantage.
Crossing the Generational Divide for Young Professionals Presentation Outcomes:
- Recognize and understand the divergent values, preferences, and priorities of all four generations in the workforce. Young professionals will quickly see why and how their view of the workplace is similar and different from their colleagues.
- Learn a step-by-step process for leading all four generations while respecting employees as individuals. This process not only helps young professionals in their own career, but also helps the careers of those they lead.
- Impact your organization with actions and strategies that other young professionals have successfully relied on to bridge the generations in their workplace. Young professionals want results and Jason delivers.
Audience: Crossing the Generational Divide for Young Professionals is ideal for young professionals, new hires, management trainees, soon-to-be graduates, and employees with less than 10 years of workforce experience.
Events: Crossing the Generational Divide for Young Professionals is a great fit for Leadership Development Programs, Talent Development Programs, Orientation and Onboarding Programs, Management Trainings, Diversity Initiatives, and Young Professional tracks at industry conferences and company meetings.
Customization and Reinforcement: Jason’s presentation includes a confidential workplace data review, customized multi-page handout, and specific strategies designed for immediate implementation by young professionals. Clients have the option of adding a pre- or post-event customized audio recording for distribution to their attendees and a pre- or post-event customized article for their internal or external publications.
“The Lincoln Young Professionals Group brought Jason to keynote our major annual event, termed ConverGENS, and he rocked the house! Out of 312 young professionals in attendance, 310 gave Jason the top mark. That is an unbelievable response from a young professional audience that has heard a ton of speakers. Jason’s attitude, humor, and business mindset are exactly the right combination to teach young professionals how to work well with people of different ages.”
Derrick Eells, Leadership Council
Lincoln Young Professionals Group
“Your presentation was a hit with our Leadership Development Program! You really connected with the audience and they walked away understanding how all the
generations can work together more effectively.”
Michael F. Doble, Director, Strategic Communications
Raytheon Company
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