What Our Clients Say About Us

Rich Papa talks about partnering with The Center for Corporate and Professional Development at Kent State University for their talent development needs.

John Ruth at BDI talks about the consulting services at Kent State University's Center for Corporate and Professional Development

The Center for Corporate and Professional Development at Kent State works with The Sherwin-Williams Company Breen Technology Center in Cleveland, Ohio to deliver leadership and management development programs.

The Center for Corporate and Professional Development at Kent State University works with L'Oreal's Solon Manufacturing to deliver Supervisory Skills Development Programs. The Professionals also worked with L'Oreal to conduct an employee engagement research project in several phases - employee focus groups, leadership interviews and a web-based survey.

The Center for Corporate and Professional Development at Kent State works with Developers Diversified Realty at their headquarters in Beachwood, Ohio to deliver programs in Innovation and Negotiation Skills. Kent State’s facilitator Ned Parks has traveled to Atlanta and Miami to deliver Negotiation Skills to employees working outside to the company’s headquarters.

Kent State's Center for Corporate and Professional Development partners with the global human resources department at A. Schulman, Inc. to develop and deliver a two-week high-potential leadership development experience. Managers from nine countries participated in this customized onsite certificate in 2010.

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics headquartered in Aurora, Ohio is partnering with The Center for Corporate and Professional Development at Kent State University to deliver a two-day Supervisory Essentials training for front line leaders at each of their locations across the country. In addition, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics and Kent State work together to offer the High-Performance Leadership Development four-day experience for managers and leaders throughout the organization.

Pepperl+Fuchs Inc. works with The Center for Corporate and Professional Development at Kent State University to define management development needs and deliver onsite customized training for managers and professionals.

The Center for Corporate and Professional Development at Kent State works with BDI (Bearing Distributors International) at their headquarters in Valley View, Ohio to deliver programs in project management, communication skills and business writing.  Kent State facilitators have traveled to Chicago to deliver training programs to BDI employees working in the field.

"It has truly been a great experience partnering with The Center for Corporate and Professional Development at Kent State University for our Management Training.   Everything ran very smooth and was very well organized.  We will definitely use this center for additional training in the near future."

“Using Kent State’s competency match we were able to select programs that support our core competencies as part of our management training.”

Cecil Curlee
VP Human Resources
Preformed Line Products