Jenny Heckscher is the director of innovation programs for the Center for Innovation Strategies at The Ohio State University, where she manages programs, operations, and outreach to support education, research, and applied practice in innovation. She provides learning experiences and consultation to private and public organizations with the goal of aligning strategy, people, and process in support of initiatives that create social and economic value. In prior roles at Ohio State, she developed and implemented diversity and inclusion programs for faculty and staff, including co-leading a record launch of the region’s Higher Education Recruitment Consortium, a national non-profit focused on promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in talent management. Jenny also developed an online career onboarding program for graduate business students that received a national innovation award. Prior to joining Ohio State, Jenny worked at Nationwide for over ten years, most recently as an associate vice president of Product Development for the retirement plan division where she helped launch a platform for new product innovation. She has been an adjunct faculty member with the MPA@UNC program at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill since 2016. She earned a B.S.B.A from Ohio State and an M.A. in public policy and management from the John Glenn College of Public Affairs.