As a best-selling author, leading corporate consultant and strategist, prominent speaker, and career entrepreneur, Kaufman and his company, Young & Successful Media Corp., are frequently called on by the media and major corporations who seek to better understand and strategically target the young adult market.
As Co-founder and CEO of Young & Successful Media Corp., a Los Angeles based media and education company, Kaufman and his team specialize in creating educational media properties infused with entertainment elements that assist young adults in becoming highly successful and fulfilled on their own at an early age. For the past decade Y&S Media's senior management team has built up a network of entrepreneurs, community leaders and high achievers from over 100 countries, gaining incredible expertise and insight into the young adult market around the globe.
As a result of these efforts, Kaufman and the Y&S Media team have worked with a variety of major corporations and organizations including: VISA, MSN, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, American Express, Business Week Inc., MTV, 1-800-FLOWERS, SUBWAY, Mobil Oil, Oxygen Media, SCORE/Kaplan, Junior Chamber International, and the Australian Government.
Kaufman is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Secrets of the Young & Successful - How to Get Everything You Want Without Waiting a Lifetime (Simon & Schuster, 2003), the first "real world" guidebook of its kind specifically written to help 18-34 year-olds catapult themselves down the path to incredible success in any career or industry they're passionate about in record time. He has been featured on the cover of a special section of The Wall Street Journal, and in publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Forbes.com, and Entrepreneur Magazine.
Prior to co-founding Y&S Media, Kaufman created a successful restaurant and franchise development company, and has been called upon as a strategic consultant for companies such as American Express, GE Capital, GoodTimes Entertainment, Empress Travel, Jack in the Box, Qdoba, Ranch*1, Surf City Squeeze, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Silver Diner. Kaufman was the youngest member appointed to the board of the California Restaurant Association.
