Ethos Group Training
Ethos Group Training: Ethos Group describes itself as an automotive and financial technology provider that also offers recruiting, training, product development and dealership support. Its training pages describe programs for F&I, sales, service drive, sales management and leadership, with the stated aim of helping a dealership improve how its people work.
Ethos Group Training: Learning
The company lists in-person classes at a dedicated training facility, an in-house production studio, regional leadership workshops and dealer-sponsored experience conferences. Training is described as going beyond concepts, with trainers in sales, service and finance mentoring employees so that the dealership's plans are carried out on the floor.
Coverage areas listed on the site include F&I, sales, fixed operations, leadership, compliance and dealership technology. The company says its representatives work with a small number of dealerships at a time, which it presents as the way to keep training hands-on.
State dealer associations publish pages about the company. MADA, the Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association, announced a partnership with Ethos Group.
Other state dealer associations, including the Kansas Automobile Dealers Association, list Ethos Group among their service providers. Those pages show the company's presence in association programs, and the terms are set by each association.
Ethos Group's technology page describes its software products, and the training is one of the services sold alongside them. Websites collecting reviews of Ethos Group exist.
A store weighing the company should read them together with the vendor's own material and speak to dealers who use it.
For a general manager, a training vendor is evaluated on process. The questions are which curriculum applies to each role, how much is delivered in person compared with online, how training is reinforced after the class, how results are measured against the store's own reporting, and what commitments the contract includes.
Regulatory content should be checked against the store's counsel. Ask about training time.
Ask what is included.
Ethos Group was founded in 1996 and is based in Irving, Texas. It works with franchised dealerships on consulting, training, recruiting, technology and compliance.
It calls itself an F&I recruiting, training and product development enterprise.
It also lists automated accounting, digital transformation platforms and F&I platform integration with DMS systems. A dealer would ask how the training is delivered and how progress is tracked.
| Product or service | Function |
|---|---|
| Learning | Training in a dedicated facility and on demand, with regional leadership workshops and conferences. |