Jeffrey Young

The Club Growth Director (CGD) is the person who makes the District bigger and better. Responsible for building clubs and rebuilding clubs, while upholding the Toastmasters brand and standards, the CGD Team is always looking for ways to improve the public speaking and leadership skills of District 57.

Jeff Young has been a Toastmaster since 2013 and is a member of a ‘small but mighty fun’ club on the south end of District 57.  After being President of South Bay Toastmasters a few times too many, Jeff was recruited to be Area Director for I-33 during the pandemic and helped clubs embrace their new virtual selves.  During that time, he was a featured Lightning Talks speaker on the topic of Mentoring, and ran an Area Director Boot Camp at TLI.

In 2023-2024, Jeff served as Division A Director and Corporate Club Chair en route to earning a second OATM and an Elite Triple Crown award, mainly by saying ‘yes’ to clubs who needed an Open House speaker. He’s most of the way to his Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM), but he’s also been having too much fun with his DTM project (an improv team called B.I.T.E.S.) to finish it.

Jeff’s leadership style is Team Collaboration; he offers to trade personal mentoring and coaching to get folks to volunteer to mentor and coach others.

As of 2024, he’s currently serving as the Club Growth Director while working as a Technical writer for an embedded software company.  He writes novels as a hobby, and he plans to get one published someday.