World B. Free
"Gene is one of the top executive recruiters in the world. He’s helped me, as well as over a thousand others, get the jobs of their dreams. This book will help anyone starting out in their career or looking to advance. Even better? He shares how personal growth is essential to professional success.
Dianna Booher
The wisdom in this book is timeless. Every young adult needs a GPS through life—the earlier the better!
Julie Spencer
Gene is loved and admired by all who know him. He generously invests his time mentoring young people while encouraging them to reach their goals.
Lloyd Erlemann
I share Gene’s life lessons everywhere I go. He is the greatest leader and career coach I’ve ever had. Gene is the best at what he does and has impacted my career tremendously. The fact that these lessons are now in a book with so much more is a gift to everyone who reads it. If you want to move up in your career, this book will get you there.
Ryan Arcidiacano
"Grad to Grown-Up is a must-read. What I learned from Gene about work ethic, respect, finance, and career helped me to the NBA. Gene has the strongest character of anyone I know and a unique ability to build relationships with others. Every young person can learn from him, and this book is full of his invaluable insight."
Michael Krasny
Gene Rice and Courtney Bejgrowicz’s Grad to Grown-Up is a compelling dual first person autobiographic work of a successful businessman father and his teacher daughter. They are both good storytellers with engaging personal stories to tell and their deep love and respect for each other comes through strongly in what is also a keen guide to values and how best to live a full and successful life. There is a lot of good, solid, sensible, and practical, well-grounded advice here, especially valuable for the young but with enough important lessons to be of major use and value to anyone at any stage of life. Can we learn from a book about passion, purpose ,and ways to seek and find fulfillment and happiness? The authors clearly believe we can and want to show us how. Gene’s daughter calls him Genie, and indeed it is as if he has come from some far away place to answer our wishes for answers. Courtney, who calls herself a snowflake, is really a natural teacher who acts as a guide as well as a kind of alter ego for her father. There is much to learn and value from both of them in this important book and there is also a treasure trove of information about basic important everyday things to know about such as how best to prepare for and give a first-rate interview. This is a highly illuminating work of distilled wisdom from two fine sensibilities who are from two dramatically different generations. A perfect graduation gift!
Mark Morgan Ford
I’m betting on this book. It has all the elements of a bestseller! The interplay of a father’s wise and practical advice and his daughter’s good-hearted (and often funny) challenges make for a very readable set of informal business and financial commandments that any young person (or older person starting out on a new career) would be wise to follow.
Dr. Kennedy Chukwuocha
Grad to Grown-Up will help every person looking to grow and get on the path to success. It’s these lessons that helped me achieve academic and personal success so young. Gene is a mentor to me to this day and the book shares all his advice.
Robert Garzilli
Want to be rich and enjoy your life, too? This book will get you there! I love the father-daughter approach. I wish my two daughters had this resource after graduating college—it has everything you need all in one place.
Margaret-Ann Cole
Gene has personally helped me multiple times in my career. He helped me get the job I wanted and brought the best talent into my company. He was never concerned with just placing a client but making sure his placements led to happiness and fulfillment. This book does the same and will assist you in advancing your career. I wish I had this book earlier in my career!
