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Oswald Companies Named to Top Workplaces List For The Sixth Consecutive Year

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CLEVELAND – June 17, 2019 – For the sixth consecutive year, and seventh year overall, Oswald Companies was named to The Plain Dealer Top Workplaces 2019, midsize company list, announced June 16, 2019. Oswald was featured in a special article this year, “Local companies see benefits of wellness programs: Top…

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The Year of Inclusion: Taking your Seat at the Table

Deena Rini

This is the “Year of Inclusion” for the Oswald Women’s Leadership Council (WLC). Coming off our electrifying year of celebration, our council not only wanted to continue the celebration of our successes, but also ensure we are celebrating each and every one of our employee-owner’s voices. Over the course of…

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The Year of Celebration: Women’s Leadership Council 2018 Recap

Kim Ferenchak

In 2018, while Oswald Companies celebrated its 125th anniversary, Oswald’s Women’s Leadership Council (WLC) celebrated its 5th anniversary. Having reached all its original goals, the theme of “The Year of Celebration” was fitting and in step with the organization. After five years, WLC has built significant strength in our council’s…

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Oswald Women’s Leadership Council: When it Pays to Stay

Deena Rini

As Oswald Companies commemorates its 125th anniversary, I am hitting a milestone as well – ten-plus years’ here. In between all the celebrating, I can’t help but reflect on my decision to stick around while all my peers were moving to job after job. This seems to be pretty rare,…

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Oswald Women Paving the Way for More Diversity in the Insurance Industry

Kim Ferenchak

This month’s Women’s Leadership Council blog celebrates the success of women who have paved the way and made Insurance a more diverse industry. Recently, I had the opportunity to slow down and share a coffee with two tenured women of Oswald – Kim Lucarelli and Kathy Miller. Both Kim and…

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Oswald Goes Red for Women’s Heart Health

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On Friday, Feb. 2, the James B. Oswald Company went Red! The Oswald Women’s Leadership Council brought the American Heart Association’s National Wear Red Day to the entire Oswald team. National Wear Red Day is held on the first Friday in February every year to raise awareness, support educational programs, and…

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Oswald Women’s Leadership Council: Year of Celebration

Stephanie Kovacs

This is the “Year of Celebration” for the Oswald Women’s Leadership Council (WLC). While Oswald Companies commemorates 125 years of “caring for our clients and employees needs today and tomorrow”, the WLC celebrates five years of “empowering, developing and advancing women.” Oswald Companies has long recognized a drive to be diverse…

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The Year of Empowerment: Women’s Leadership Council 2017 Recap

Stephanie Kovacs

What a year! Looking back at the events Oswald’s Women’s Leadership Council (WLC) hosted to empower women, I am humbled to be a part of a truly amazing movement. We started the year off with Empowerment through Awareness, a self-defense class. A group of Oswald women, currently going through leadership training,…

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Oswald Accepts 2017 Harvest for Hunger Bag of Hope Award, Greater Cleveland Food Bank

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CLEVELAND – June 15, 2017 – Led by OswaldCARES, Oswald’s internal charitable committee, Oswald Companies grew its 2017 Harvest for Hunger Campaign more than 100 percent through a new, engaging, and multi-week program to bolster donations and participation from employee-owners. For these efforts, including the campaign culmination of a companywide…

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What’s in a Name? A Rarefied Skill to Maximize Professional Presence

Michelle Mindell

It is beyond a reasonable dispute that an organization’s lifeblood begins and ends with the relationships which we forge with each individual client. Without these solid relationships built upon a foundation of mutual trust, respect and professional presence, there would be little reason for any of us to show up for work. In…

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