Blog - Executive Arrangements

Welcome to ConnectToCLE!

Each week or so, EA’s blog addresses various topics relevant to the people that we help. We work with companies and organizations to attract and welcome top talent to Northeast Ohio. We do this by connecting job candidates, new hires, and their families to the people, places, and lifestyle opportunities in Cleveland and Akron.

Our blog presents meaningful information about life in Northeast Ohio, relocation topics, and trends in destination services. We answer both the common and uncommon questions that we hear from our clients and the people that we introduce, welcome, and acclimate to Northeast Ohio.

And why ConnectToCLE? Because CLE is catchier than Northeast Ohio, Cleveland, or Akron. But, rest assured! Our blog does address the entire seven county region we serve.

Fellow Bibliophiles Trust Us You Don’t Want to Miss This Series

Penned by Nadia Schroth, Project Manager/Guide at EA. If you love the arts, Cleveland has you covered. We all know about the theatres of Playhouse Square and the fabulous museums of University Circle, but did you know that Cleveland is host to one of the premier author’s series in the nation? The William N. Skirball […]

What’s Next for Tower City Center?

About half of our team spent a July morning at Tower City Center with Jason Russell, Senior Director of Leasing and Operations (promoted just 24 hours prior!) and Deb Janik, Senior VP, Business Development. They shared the first steps for the re-imagining of the 32 acres which surround the Terminal Tower much of it owned […]

WFH, WFA, WFO: Who Wins Who Loses

I’ve been thinking a lot about the new work models that are changing the how and the where we do our jobs, namely WFH, WFA (Work From Anywhere) versus WFO (Work From Office). There are many pros and cons to each scenario and every organization in the world is struggling to figure our their new […]

Cleveland Museum of Natural History 2024!

Once a month our staff explores a different part of the region (a day we call EA University) to learn up to date info to share with the candidates and newcomers we work with. Thanks to Andrew Bednarski for his guided tour at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History where they are in the middle […]

Welcome EA Class of 2022 – Meet our Eight New Team Members

March 21, 2022

Margy Judd

So proud of my team as they help to train eight new employees. With most of the world struggling to find talent, we quietly spent months identifying, wooing and on-boarding this amazing group. They are sure to bring many fresh ideas and perspectives to our company and to the candidates they work with. They are […]

More fun things to explore and know about CLE/AKR

December 17, 2021

Margy Judd

EA Guides are natural born explorers and constantly sharing their findings with each other. Here is the most recent list of random things about our region that were shared recently: A few ways to give you that last jolt of holiday spirit as we head into Christmas week: Proud of the Cleveland Metroparks (Best in […]

Meet the Dogs of EA

November 22, 2021

Peg Furnas

They’ve weathered the pandemic storm by our sides oblivious to what has transpired except for a curiosity about why we are always home. As we became a virtual office in late ’20, a silver lining, they’re curled at our feet M-F 9-5. With watchful eyes even when closed (takes the saying ‘eyes in the back […]

A Promise and an Opportunity for Connectivity, New Jobs and Opportunities for Residents

November 15, 2021

Margy Judd

Monday, November 15, 2021 Was it just me, or does it seem a bit prophetic that just days after Cleveland elected a 34 year old change agent named Justin Bibb to be our next Mayor, the final stretches of the appropriately named Opportunity Cooridor opened this weekend following five long years of construction? The […]

Meet Nkechi Okwumabua – New to CLE and Loving Her Urban Neighborhood

November 11, 2021

Margy Judd

In early 2021, Executive Arrangements introduced Nkechi Okwumabua, a new hire of Sherwin-Williams Company, to Cleveland. Relocating from Michigan while the country was still in the grips of COVID-19, she nonetheless pulled up her roots and transplanted them to begin her new job. Q. Can you share a bit of your background and what brought […]

Meet EA’s Caroline Merk, Brussels to Poland Traveling the World

October 19, 2021

Peg Furnas

EA: Caroline, tell us about yourself, where you grew up, schooled, worked, and have lived.CM: I was the first American-born in my family and spent my early childhood in the NYC area. My parents spoke Polish to us at home, taught us to read and write in Polish before kindergarten. They spoke French to each […]

EA Connects – Welcoming the Class of Sept ’21 to Cleveland

September 29, 2021

Margy Judd

On September 24th we hosted EA Connects, a gathering of all the New to Cleveland/Akron women we helped on-board to our region. Whether they moved for their own career opportunity, or their significant other’s, they all arrived within the last few months. After months of lockdown during COVID, followed by a year of working from […]

Murals add art to MidTown Cleveland buildings

September 10, 2021

Margy Judd

August, 2021: The Cleveland Walls weeklong festival added almost 20 new pieces of public art to Cleveland’s MidTown neighborhood. Using both local and national artists, these splashes of color brightened up the sides of so many buildings, many of them clustered along Carnegie and Euclid Avenues. Jeff Epstein, MidTown’s CEO, partnered with local non profit […]

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