Columbus CEO’s Fall 2023 Issue Features Best of Business, Jordan Miller and Top Lawyers

Before I tell you about our Fall 2023 issue, I want to encourage you to nominate your organization for one of our widest-ranging annual awards programs: Top Workplaces 2024.

Columbus CEO’s Top Workplaces awards recognize Central Ohio’s top-performing employers, ranked by what their own workers think. Not only does participating give organizations valuable internal feedback, but for the honorees, there are recruitment and retention advantages, as well.

Any employee, at any level of an organization, can make a nomination at columbusceo.com/nominate. The program is open to all public, private, for-profit and government entities with at least 50 employees in Central Ohio. The deadline to make a nomination for the 2024 Top Workplaces program is Nov. 24, 2023. (If you’re reading this after the deadline, don’t worry. Nominations are collected year-round, so there’s plenty of time to throw your hat in the ring for 2025.)

For the 12th year, CEO is pleased to partner with Energage, an Exton, Pennsylvania-based workplace research firm, on the program. Energage, which conducts Top Workplaces surveys for media outlets in 62 markets, surveyed more than 2 million employees at more than 8,000 organizations in 2022.

Here’s a look at Columbus CEO’s Top Workplaces 2023:

• 1,954 organizations invited
• 138 organizations surveyed
• 92 winners
• 34,462 employees invited to complete the survey
• 21,134 employee responses.

There is no cost to participate in the program. Workplaces are evaluated by their own employees, who complete anonymous, 24-question online surveys administered from September to December. Winners are determined solely on input gathered from these surveys.

Top Workplaces winners will be recognized in a special supplement published as part of Columbus CEO’s Spring 2024 issue and online. Beyond just earning bragging rights, honorees can publicly tout their win with the Top Workplaces gold emblem on signs, in marketing materials, recruiting efforts and more.

For more information, go to columbusceo.com/nominate or call 614-344-0320.

Curious who our 2023 winners were? Read the Top Workplaces supplement.

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Speaking of awards, it’s hard to believe, but our longest-running recognition program, Best of Business, is celebrating its 16th year in 2023. Our annual reader poll seeks to find Central Ohio’s best business products and services, as well as other professional favorites like dining, health care, meeting and event providers and more. This year’s results recognize 84 winners and 169 runners-up in 83 categories.

While the list represents just a fraction of the many excellent local service providers in the Columbus region, it might just give you a head start the next time you need to replace a trusted vendor.

Thanks for reading.

Didn’t get a copy? Read the digital edition online anytime. You won’t want to miss our cover story on longtime financial services executive Jordan Miller, who came out of retirement to found Ohio’s only Black-owned bank. Plus, learn about Accelerating Angels, a female-founded investment startup serving early-stage, women-owned businesses; browse our annual Top Lawyers directory; find out  how Andelyn Biosciences is helping anchor the local biotech sector; and more.

This story is from the Fall 2023 issue of Columbus CEO.