Fighting Back From Poverty and Addiction
For the first 24 years of his life, Chris Rickerson’s future looked dim. He grew up in poverty, with a drug-addicted mother and drug demons of his own. Facing dire consequences, he turned his life around and, in 2013, started Elite Staffing Solutions, a Wichita, Kansas–based staffing company that lifts up people who are struggling as he once did.
CHRIS RICKERSON Elite Staffing Solutions → Three-year growth 2,548.4% 2016 revenue $3 MILLION
→ A HARD START
My mother was addicted to drugs. She raised me in low-income housing, in El Dorado, Kansas. We got by on government peanut butter and cheese. I remember food
