Jenny Heckscher, Senior Director
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Jenny Heckscher, senior director with the Center for Innovation Strategies, develops and implements the center’s strategy, communications and programming and builds relationships with students, clients and companies to support education and community engagement in innovation. She developed and leads the center's innovation programs for professionals, helping organizations to create, test, and iterate new products, programs, and services.
Jenny has extensive experience executing initiatives in the private sector and higher education. As a learning and development consultant, she developed evidence-based learning programs for staff and faculty with a focus on leadership and inclusion. As program director for Ohio State’s gender equity initiative, she co-led regional efforts to develop a recruiting consortium, led the advisory board and managed an entrepreneurship leadership program for women faculty.
Jenny has also served as director of career management at the Fisher College of Business, where she provided career coaching and programming for graduate students, led corporate development efforts, and assisted employers with recruiting strategies. In this role, she led a team to develop and implement an award-winning on-line career management course.
Prior to joining Ohio State, Jenny worked for Nationwide’s retirement plan division as an associate vice president for product development and risk management. She assisted with the launch of a transformational trust company platform for new product innovation.
She is also an adjunct faculty member for the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government, teaching organization theory in the online MPA program. She graduated summa cum laude from The Ohio State University with a dual degree in English and Education and earned an M.A. in Public Policy and Management from the John Glenn College of Public Affairs.