Featuring Sophia Fifner, President and CEO of the Columbus Metropolitan Club, Bill Butler, President of the National Veterans Memorial and Museum and Colonel, U.S. Army Retired, Dr. John Ackerman, Suicide Prevention Clinical Manager with Nationwide Children's Hospital, and moderator WBNS 10TV news anchor Stacia Naquin.
June 24, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Michael Corey, Executive Director, The Human Service Chamber of Franklin County; Rhea Cunningham, CEO, Boys & Girls Club of Central Ohio; Columbus City Councilmember Melissa Green; Dr. Bill LaFayette, Owner, Regionomics, with moderator Jordan Laird, Politics and Government Reporter, The Columbus Dispatch, Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK.
July 8, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Daren Griffin, President & CEO, The Columbus Regional Airport Authority, with moderator Jerod Smalley, Co-Anchor, WCMH NBC4, and Host, Columbus 2.0 and additional panelist to be announced.
July 15, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Matthew Goldstein, CEO, Besa; Carrie Maun-Smith, Associate Vice President, Culture and Community Impact, Grange Insurance, and Foundation President, Grange Enterprise Gives; Kerri Mollard, Founder and CEO, Mollard Consulting; with moderator Janelle Coleman, President, American Electric Power Foundation.
July 22, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Brenda Councill, Ohio Women's Monument Artist and Sculptor; Stephanie Kunze, Original Member of the Ohio Women’s Monument Commission, Capitol Square Foundation Board Member; Charley Moses, Capitol Square Foundation Board Chair, and Former Ohio Statehouse Representative with moderator Charlene Brown, Host, WOSU Public Media's Columbus Neighborhoods TV Series.
August 5, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Featuring Robert Alt, President and CEO, The Buckeye Institute; Rita McNeil Danish, Interim CEO, The Matriots, with moderator Lee Strang, Inaugural Executive Director, Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society, The Ohio State University. Additional panelists to be announced.
August 12, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
National Veterans Memorial and Museum