David Meyers, Principal, David Meyers Associates, Ltd.
With more than 25 years of hospitality management experience as an Executive Chef and General Manager, David Meyers has practical experience at nationally recognized properties including the 5 Diamond/Star Ritz-Carlton Hotel Chicago, and Platinum Private Clubs including The Standard Club of Chicago, Twin Orchard Country Club (Long Grove, Ill.), and North Shore Country Club, where he successfully managed for fifteen years. Formally trained in both the hospitality management and the culinary art disciplines, David earned an Associates degree in Hospitality Management and completed a three-year Chef Apprentice Program under strict American Culinary Federation (ACF) guidelines. His continuing professional relationships include the Club Managers Association of America, ACF and NACE organizations, and as a Board Advisor/ Instructor to the Triton College Hospitality Management Program. He now runs David Meyers Associates, a recognized leader in placing exceptional culinary management talent to the hospitality industry.
Meyers will be joined by Michael Redmond, whose career path has taken him through all of the traditional chef-position ranks to his current management position with one of the country’s most prestigious private clubs, to lead a session that will include discussion of these areas:
- Career development issues for club chefs – finding the right environment for your skills/lifestyles, and finding the right balance
- How to be a successful club chef by establishing a vision and moving to achieve it through interesting and inventive programs
- How to avoid succumbing to the ever-changing whims of Entertainment Committees
- How to avoid the status quo (which is the surest way to get fired)
- Internships and developing relationships with culinary schools (international, national and local)
- Networking with other club chefs
- Where do you want to be in 10 years?
- Why you shouldn’t take new jobs just to get out from where you are
- How to think rationally about the “next logical steps”
- How to mold the perfect (or at least a better) job right where you are
