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Featuring Lubna Najjar, Founder & CEO, IL Moda Brand Development, Creative Director, Her Denim, and Board President, Columbus Fashion Council, Melanie Corn, Ed.D., President, Columbus College of Art & Design, and Katherine DePizzo, President, Justice Design Lab, with host Maria Seguin, Board Member, Columbus Fashion Council, and Member, OSU Fashion & Retail Industry.
September 20, 2023
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
The Ellis
Columbus Business First’s Bonnie Meibers sits down with Brett Kaufman for an-in-depth conversation on his vision for Columbus and the city’s unrealized potential as a modern, sustainable, and equitable city.
September 13, 2023
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
The Ellis
With Treasurer Robert Sprague as our special guest, we dive into the present and future of Ohio’s political climate with veteran Statehouse News Bureau Chief Karen Kasler.
September 6, 2023
11:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Grange Insurance Audubon Center
Featuring Cynthia W. Turner. Ph.D., Assistant Dean and Chief Diversity Officer, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, Margaret Finley, Director of DEI and Head of Corporate Affairs, Advanced Drainage Systems, and Erin Butcher, Of Counsel, Bricker Graydon, with host Sherrice Sledge-Thomas, Vice President of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access, Columbus Chamber of Commerce.
August 30, 2023
11:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Grange Insurance Audubon Center
Featuring Jatu Boikai, Nurse Manager, Maternity Services, Mount Carmel Health System, Shawnee Benton-Gibson, Co-Founder and CEO, Spirit of a Woman Leadership Development Institute, and Co-Founder, ARIAH Foundation, Jessica Roach, CEO, Co-Founder, and Clinical Director, Restoring Our Own Through Transformation, and Dorian L. Wingard, Co-Founder, COO, and Policy Director, Restoring Our Own Through Transformation, with host Erica Crawley, Franklin County Board of Commissioners.
August 23, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Grange Insurance Audubon Center
Featuring John Barker, President & CEO, The Ohio Restaurant Association, Bennett Goldberg, Partner, Maker Kitchens, Chris Baggott, Co-Founder and CEO, ClusterTruck, and Lisa A. Gutierrez, Founder and CEO, Dos Hermanos Taco Truck, Founder and Food-Based Business Coach, Food Truck Millionaire, with host Susan Post, Associate Editor, Columbus Underground.
August 16, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Grange Insurance Audubon Center
Featuring Anne Vogel, Director, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Mary Mertz, Director, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Brian Baldridge, Director, Ohio Department of Agriculture, and host Natalie Fahmy, Ohio Statehouse Reporter, WCMH NBC4.
August 9, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Grange Insurance Audubon Center
Featuring Susan Tave Zelman, Ph.D., Former Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Co-Author of "The Buying and Selling of American Education: Reimagining a System of Schools", Angela Chapman, Ed.D., Superintendent/CEO, Columbus City Schools, and Scott DiMauro, President, Ohio Education Association, with host Jackie Walker, Executive Director of SkillsUSA Ohio.
August 2, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Grange Insurance Audubon Center
Featuring Patrick Losinski, CEO, Columbus Metropolitan Library, Felton Thomas, Jr., Executive Director, CEO, Cleveland Public Library, Matthew Besser, Principal, Bolek Besser Glesius, and Michelle Francis, Executive Director, Ohio Library Council, with host David E. Weaver, Executive Director, Ohioana Library Association.
July 26, 2023
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Grange Insurance Audubon Center
Featuring Ryan Augsburger, President, The Ohio Manufacturers’ Association, Bill LaFayette, Ph.D., Owner, Regionomics, Daniela Villaca, Human Resources Director, Acoust-A-Fiber, Inc., Damon Richardson, SVP of Manufacturing, American Nitrile, and with Doug Buchanan, Editor in Chief, Columbus Business First.
July 19, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Grange Insurance Audubon Center
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