Companies Benefit from Ohio’s Academic System

The quality of an academic system is an important consideration in selecting a location for capital investment. Ohio has an impressive education structure that is dedicated to training skilled workers in a variety of industries.

BHDP Architecture is one of Ohio's leading companies and a design innovator. Their business thrives on a diverse client base and the top architect and designer talent they find in Ohio. The state's impressive higher education system plays an integral part in BHDP's business success.

Paul Orban, BHDP's higher education market leader, collaborates with higher education clients to overcome the challenges they face with existing facilities and creates visually appealing places to learn. By promoting a sense of community between students, faculty, staff and alumni, BHDP helps to create an interactive learning environment for students to succeed.

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Bringing Work:Life Balance to You

Ellen Minerd and Jane Vitou, sisters and co-founders of Bootcamp Babes, started their company in 2004 to educate men and women of all ages on the need for daily exercise. Teaming up with corporate fitness programs, Boot Camp Babes instruct employees of all ages and fitness levels on basic exercise routines.

In speaking with Ellen and Jane, their passion for work:life balance is reflected in their business philosophy and personal lives. Not only does Ohio provide the business environment this small business needs to succeed, but encourages the pursuit of better balance for companies and their employees.

Check out recent research studies, articles and testimonials and other resources for why business leaders, just like Ellen and Jane, should consider work:life balance as a key element of their business growth strategy.

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Strengthen Your Company’s Workforce

Ohio is committed to providing a skilled, educated workforce to help the state's business community grow and prosper. With a premier education system, the state is poised to produce next-generation graduates for emerging and leading industries. This commitment is combined with strong workforce training programs and innovative job-creation and worker-retention programs such as the Ohio Third Frontier Project and the EnterpriseOhio Network.

The state's business community can take advantage of several free programs and financial assistance opportunities designed to stimulate the availability of educated labor to serve industry-specific needs. In addition, the Strickland Administration has laid out a plan for talent development in Ohio, including rapid response services, worker credentialing, training, and business services. This comprehensive approach to workforce training illustrates Ohio’s commitment to businesses and the economy.

John Kratz, president of Information Control Corporation (ICC), shared with me that he believes Ohio has the resources in place to attract skilled technology workers, because of the state’s commitment to higher education, recruitment and strong business network. ICC is a privately owned ITI services company that provides project services, software development, business intelligence and technology infrastructure.

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Need for Work:Life Balance

Ohio is the state where the opportunities for professional success and personal fulfillment are equally balanced. Here you can think big, work big and play big without being swallowed up by bigness itself. I believe that Ohio, "The State of Perfect Balance," truly offers business and industry many unique qualities that contribute to better balance and, ultimately, optimal business performance.

Many companies are trying harder to help their employees achieve better work:life balance, recognizing that better balance means happier, healthier and more productive employees. Recent studies show compelling evidence for why business leaders should consider the pursuit of better balance for themselves and their employees to be a key element of their business growth strategy.

I recently spoke with Ric Powell, managing partner of Accel Advisors in Cincinnati about his thoughts about how Ohio keeps to its promise as "The State of Perfect Balance."

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Ohio’s Higher Education

Did you know Ohio has a plan for higher education? It goes further than just a plan; it is commitment at the highest levels of state government to increase college graduations to turn around Ohio's struggling economy by supporting its workforce. Ohio is making its higher education system accountable to state investment, increasing the responsibility for Ohio's public colleges and universities to prove they are directly contributing to the state’s economic development.

Ohio's higher education reform will:

• Dramatically increase the number of Ohio college graduates supplying the workforce, thus contributing to an economic upswing.
• Tie higher education funding to university outcomes to produce graduating industry experts in the needed economic sectors, rather than solely rewarding enrollment.

These are bold steps that the rest of the country will want to watch carefully.

To support the need for such a reform, I recently spoke with Richard Simpson, managing partner at Bricker & Eckler LLP, on how the leading legal firm continuously turns to the state’s exceptional academic institutions for the latest crop of promising attorneys.

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