Executive Education

Ohio Chamber of Commerce CEO Forum

Every subject consists of three one-hour asynchronous classes per quarter, along with the choice of attending one-hour office hours if desired.

Strategic Agility

During this session participants will be presented with research-based strategic planning process frameworks that will enable documentation of strategic planning cycles, mission, vision and objectives, as well as the discovery of emerging strategies to support growth.

Scaling Business and Entering New Markets

During this session participants will be presented with research-based frameworks and middle market applications to enable identification of new growth opportunities, and the subsequent modifications to business models and processes in support of incremental business.

Change Management

During this session participants will be presented with middle market research-based frameworks for organizational development, succession planning and identifying potential exit strategies.

Access to Capital

During this session participants will be presented with a spectrum of financing alternatives, experience-based, real- world middle market applications, and access to resources presented by financial market advisors.

Kennia Papadakis is a senior lecturer in the department of finance. Prior to becoming a Fisher College faculty member, Kennia worked at Emerson Electric Corp. in a variety of business groups and roles, ranging from logistics management, product engineering, development and marketing, strategic planning, financial and capital budgeting. Kennia brings more than 20 years of combined engineering and business management experience to Fisher and specializes in managerial corporate finance.

Jaideep (Jay) Anand is the William H. Davis Chair and Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Strategy at the Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University. He is also the Academic Director of the Center for Innovation Strategies. Prior to joining Fisher, he was faculty at the University of Michigan (Ross). He earned a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, and master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.  His interests include corporate growth, mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures & strategic alliances, global strategy and strategy implementation. 
 

He regularly consults and conducts executive education programs with companies all over the world. He has worked in more than a dozen countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. He has appeared on ABC, NBC and CBS TV News, National Public Radio and Summit Business TV and has been referenced in BBC radio, CEO magazine, The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, Knowledge@Wharton, New York Times, The Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other popular media in several countries. He has received several awards for his research and contribution to management knowledge. He has also received numerous awards for teaching in executive, MBA and PhD programs.
 

He served as the elected chair of the Academy of Management (the largest academic association in the field of management), IM division. Currently he serves as the Senior Editor of Organization Science, Consulting Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies and Associate Editor of the Global Strategy Journal and is a member of the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal. His research has been published in business press (including the Financial Times, California Management Review and the Columbia Journal of World Business), academic journals (including the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science), and has been widely presented at research conferences and seminars around the world.
 

 Chad Zipfel is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Finance. He joined Fisher in 2018 with more than a decade of progressive finance leadership experience in the Corporate space. Prior to his appointment at Ohio State, Chad led the turnaround of The Oneida Group out of bankruptcy: rebuilding a new Finance organization, reducing inventory, enacting price increases, and refinancing the Company’s capital structure. Prior to that, Chad delivered top-rated results at L Brands and Procter & Gamble in diverse capacities and locations: ranging from FP&A, Corporate Finance, M&A, Innovation, Sales, and Supply Chain.

At OSU, Chad is a STEP Faculty Mentor and is actively engaged with Fisher’s Executive Education as an Academic Director. Chad also serves on various committees and is faculty sponsor for various Student Orgs.

Outside of OSU, Chad stays engaged in the business world through a variety of means. Since 2018, he is the active owner of F.A.S.T. Consulting LLC: specializing in Finance and Strategy transformations as a fractional CFO for small/mid-cap companies. He sits on the Board of a VC-backed start-up while continuing to be active in the non-profit space with numerous Board positions.

Chad received his BSBA in Finance with Honors, graduating summa cum laude from Fisher. He resides in Sunbury, OH with his wife and two boys.

Professor Isil Erel is the David A. Rismiller Chair in Finance and the academic director of the Risk Institute at the Fisher College of Business of the Ohio State University. She holds a PhD in financial economics from MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research spans a variety of areas within corporate finance, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and financial institutions. This research has been published in top finance journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies.

Professor Erel is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)’s Corporate Finance program and a research member at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). She also serves on the boards of the European Finance Association (EFA), Foundation for the Advancement of Research in Financial Economics (FARFE), and the Risk Institute.

Professor Erel is an Editor of the Review of Corporate Finance Studies and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation. She is the 2010 recipient of the Pace Setters Faculty Research Award, the 2015 recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award, and 2020 recipient of the Recognition Award for significant out-of-classroom contributions at the Fisher College of Business. She also received the Distinguished Referee Award from the Review of Financial Studies in 2012. Professor Erel teaches Financial Institutions courses in both graduate and undergraduate programs at the Fisher College of Business.