Many companies take pride in being customer-focused, but one of the Top Workplaces in Central Ohio believes that helping its customers succeed is possible only with the success of its own employees.

The Dispatch Magazines team is proud to present our second class of Inspiring Women: 23 trailblazers who make Columbus a better community for everyone. In a joint project between Columbus CEO and ...

On Presidents Day, employees of KEMBA Financial Credit Union gathered at the Hilton Columbus at Easton for the company’s biggest event of the year. The first of two annual all-associate meetings allow ...

In the mid-1980s, Barb Smoot taught high school math and physics in West Hartford, Connecticut. Working in the “Insurance Capital of the World” prompted her to take actuarial exams and give the ...

Amy Klaben’s legacy of service spans decades. When Klaben was in high school, she gained her first board experience as the youth member of the YWCA board of directors in Springfield. “The YWCA’s No. 1 ...

When Angela Plummer graduated from the University of Dayton with a degree in international studies in 1989, she had a grand vision of working for the United Nations to help save the world. It wasn’t ...

Debbie Penzone grew up in Springfield as part of a big family that loved art, fashion and beauty. As a junior in high school in the 1980s, she gave one of her five brothers a perm so he could feather ...

As the daughter of an OB-GYN and a medical researcher, Karen Morrison was all but destined for a career in health care. After 30 years with OhioHealth, it’s clear that Morrison has followed in her ...

If you want to really know what’s happening at work, ask the people on the front lines. That’s the foundation of the Top Workplaces award. For the 13th year, employee survey company Energage has ...

Lisa Hinson was 12 when she lost her 52-year-old grandmother to cancer. Years later, her father-in-law died from the disease shortly after his retirement. Hinson says they are the inspiration for her ...

Columbus CEO’s Top Workplaces 2025 recognizes 81 local organizations whose own workers rated them as employers of choice. In addition to these awards, our research partner, Energage, bestowed Special ...

Lisa Berger and Ilaria Rawlins had experienced plenty of success in their careers, but a novel idea to start a women-owned bank was an opportunity they couldn’t turn down. Berger and Rawlins met in ...