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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.

How To Talk Like a Local (AKA Clevelandisms)!!!!

Every town has colloquialisms and historic references that the locals all understand but that might make a newcomer scratch their head. How confusing is it for a recent transplant to hear locals refer to a building by it’s previous tenant/name even though it was renamed decades ago? Old habits die hard! Acronyms and nicknames may […]

Meet EA’s Suzanne Dannemiller; Empty Nester, Volunteer, Yogi, Boater

Q: Would you share a bit about yourself and your family? Where is home?Although I was born and raised in NC, I moved to Bay Village in 1992. Other than living in Nashville while attending Vanderbilt University and spending 5 years in Portland, Oregon we have raised our 2 kids in Bay Village and consider […]

Meet New to Cleveland Foodie Instagrammer Melissa Grannum

Q: Can you share a bit about yourself, where you’ve lived and consider home, schooled, and worked, and the moves you’ve made with your husband and children? I am originally from Connecticut while my family is from Jamaica; I am first generation American. My husband and I have lived in Springfield, NJ, and Naperville, IL. […]

Meet NYT Best Selling Author Darcie Chan in a New Setting for Her Next Story

Q: Can you share a bit about yourself, where you’ve lived, schooled, worked, and the moves you’ve made with your husband and son? I was born in Wisconsin, so I’m actually a native of the Midwest. Growing up, my family lived in Wisconsin and Indiana, mostly, and for a short time in Colorado. I […]

Browns Fans from Across the Pond Move to The Land

January 19, 2021

Peg Furnas

Julian Shirley moved to the states from London, England with his wife and two children back in 2015. Working at Signet he was asked to come to the Fairlawn headquarters as SVP Omnichannel/Ecommerce. What a year it has been for Signet, 2020 was one of their best in nine years much of it due to […]

2020, A Look Back Thru the Eyes of the EA Team

December 31, 2020

Margy Judd

December 31, 2020 Do you remember where you were when Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued shelter-in-place orders on March 22nd? Wasn’t it fun to be blissfully ignorant, thinking we’d just have to hunker down for a few months to get thru this together? Were you initially thrilled to have what seemed like an extended snow […]

Connecting Newcomers in-Person Despite a Pandemic!

November 17, 2020

Margy Judd

All the traditional ways a newcomer might make friends, get to know their town, feel connected and become a part of the fabric of their new community have been upended by the global pandemic. That’s not stopping Executive Arrangements from finding ways to create social circles and safely host masked and socially distanced in-person outings […]

Saying Thank You 24 Years Later

November 5, 2020

Margy Judd

I recently received the most amazing thank you email which vividly reminded me it’s NEVER to late to say thank you and the smallest things you do can mean a lot to someone else. I met Andrea when Executive Arrangements was retained to help woo her from Chicago for a job in Cleveland. We were […]

Meet Colleen Criste Enjoying Life in NE Ohio and at the Cleveland Museum of Art

October 13, 2020

Peg Furnas

Q: Can you share a bit about yourself, where you’ve lived, schooled, worked and the moves you’ve made with your husband and sons?I was born in Philadelphia and raised in Bucks County, PA outside the city. I majored in art history at the University of Pittsburgh, which is where I met my husband, David who […]

Residential Buildings Continue to Rise in CLE

October 8, 2020

Margy Judd

Maybe it’s because I’m missing the annual home and garden tours at which I grabbed tickets for every summer and fall. Houses and yards which half inspired and half intimidated me as I walked thru impeccably organized spaces, with beautiful flowers and decorated rooms (albeit with lots of professional help which I keep reminding myself!). […]

Happy Hour for the Ladies New to NE Ohio COVID-19 Edition

October 6, 2020

Margy Judd

In late September, Executive Arrangements hosted 40 women for our EA Connects Class of 2020 – Zoom Edition. While we were disappointed this annual gathering, which introduces new to NE Ohio women to each other and their local peers, wasn’t on a patio with wine and appetizers like in past years, we were happy that […]

Meet Beth Sak, Sherwin-Williams, Connecting in a New Town Despite the Pandemic

September 28, 2020

Margy Judd

Beth and her family relocated from Illinois to Chagrin Falls in the fall of 2019 for her job at Sherwin-Williams. She shared her thoughts on how to connect and feel at home in a new town during a global pandemic. Q. How did you balance personal and work life this past spring when shelter-in-place orders […]

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