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.

More fun things to explore and know about CLE/AKR

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

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

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

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 […]

Cuyahoga Valley National Park & The Countryside revisted

August 4, 2021

Margy Judd

Executive Arrangements’ quarterly continuing ed outings for staff members, lovingly called EA University, took us on an exploration of Cuyahoga Valley National Park. And, while inclement weather (and not COVID) forced the meeting to be virtual instead of at Boston Mills Visitor Center, there was a lot to learn, and we wanted to share this […]

Cleveland & Akron Are Open Folks, Go Exploring!

July 21, 2021

Margy Judd

Once a month, an email is sent to our 15 WFH employees. It keeps the connectivity alive, but equally important is the info share about what is new and happening in the Greater CLE/AKR region. We pass this knowledge on to the candidates and newcomers we work with every day. So, after hearing the fourth […]

Meet the Bakers, You’ll Be Glad You Did!

July 12, 2021

Peg Furnas

Q: Share a bit about yourself, where you consider home, schooled, worked and the moves you’ve made with your husband and daughter?I always considered central Pennsylvania my home since I grew up there, but now that Aaron and I have been together so long it’s basically wherever we live together! We lived in Hershey PA […]

When you ask your customers for “honest” feedback…

June 22, 2021

Margy Judd

Like many companies, we welcome input from our customers and ask each to fill out a ten question survey after their EA experience and Survey Monkey makes this easy! The candidates we work with are considering a relocation to Greater Cleveland/Akron. They have either just accepted or are considering a job offer here. Executive Arrangements […]

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

June 2, 2021

Margy Judd

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 […]

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