Today’s twenty-something employees are ambitious, motivated, and dedicated to changing the business world for the better. However, without being told directly, it’s hard for young employees to understand the importance of marketing themselves, getting to know the right people, adding tangible value to the organization, learning transferable skills, and charting their own career paths. Because of what they don’t learn in college, twenty-somethings typically experience lower productivity and higher turnover than other employees in your organization. This session will discuss how to employ core strategies that will make a difference in the degree to which your twenty-somethings contribute to the bottom line and end up staying with you for the long-haul. It's perfect for Baby Boomer and Generation X managers at all types of organizations.

Alexandra Levit, Inspiration at Work

Alexandra Levit is the founder and president of Inspiration at Work, a consulting firm. A former nationally syndicated columnist with Tribune Media Services and a current blogger for HuffingtonPost.com and Getthejob.com, Alexandra has authored several books, including the popular They Don't Teach Corporate in College (second edition due in spring 2009 from Career Press), How'd You Score That Gig? (Random House/Ballantine) and Success for Hire (ASTD Press). Alexandra’s book on inspirational career change, Change Your Job, Change Your Life, is due out from Random House/Ballantine in early 2010.

Alexandra makes frequent national media appearances and has been featured in thousands of media outlets including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, National Public Radio, ABC News, Fox News, CNBC, the Associated Press, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Fortune, and her articles regularly appear on the home pages of CNN, MSN, and Yahoo!.

Known as one of the premiere spokespeople of her generation, Alexandra regularly speaks at conferences, universities, and corporations including Campbell's Soup, CIGNA, the Federal Reserve Bank, McDonalds, Microsoft, and Whirlpool — on issues facing modern employees. Alexandra is also a global spokesperson for Microsoft and has recently been called upon to speak to corporate C-suite audiences and Baby Boomer and Generation X managers about leveraging the talent of the Millennial generation.

Alexandra has ten years of experience providing integrated marketing communications solutions for Fortune 500 companies and is also skilled at providing guidance regarding twenty-first century motherhood, human resources and general business issues, and entrepreneurship. She graduated from Northwestern University and resides in Chicago, IL with her husband Stewart and son Jonah.