Community Leader, Collaborator
Chris Davison as the Executive Director of the Young Entrepreneur Society (YES), leads the efforts of a non-profit organization in Northwestern PA addressing poverty, workforce development issues and strengthening the family unit in our community. He oversees the leadership and direction of YES and is responsible for maintaining relationships with donors, civic leaders, government officials, business executives and other partners and volunteers.
Chris has spent his life in pursuit of helping others. He attended boot camp between his junior and senior year of high school as he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a Combat Medic. After completing boot camp he finished his senior year and then continued his military service. Upon fulfilling his military service, Chris attended Edinboro University of Pennsylvania as a psychology major, then transferred to Penn State for Business & Finance. He has spent the majority of his career as a Financial Advisor and Estate Planner. Throughout his military service, his educational years and his career, Chris has always strived to assist others in reaching their life goals and making the community a better place to live and thrive.
Fifteen years ago, Chris founded the Young Entrepreneur Society in Erie, Pennsylvania formalizing its non-profit status as a 501C3 in 2011. The creation of this organization gave him the means to reach out and provide programs and services to help lift young men and women out of poverty and give them options for their careers.
As an innovator and forward thinker, Chris realized that the YES needed a division that would help those individuals that are trained through the YES programming become gainfully employed. Therefore the birth of the Just Say-Yes Workforce Solutions arm became a reality. This type of out-of- the box approach has led to YES being able to effectively help not only poverty level teens and young adults but any individual that is looking to change careers, become gainfully employed or is looking for training and development opportunities.