Heidi Mitchell Samuel

Heidi Mitchell Samuel brings sixteen years experience of executive management and organizational planning to deliver successful events, advocacy, and business marketing products to CIG clients from the government, non-profit and private sectors. 

 

Having worked as the special assistant to the Chief of Staff to Ohio Governor George V. Voinovich and as the special assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Ohio Department of Transportation, Heidi utilizes networks and knowledge of state and local structures to interface, affect opinion and achieve specific outreach goals for clients. Heidi has primarily served the policy and marketing needs of the health information management, workers’ compensation, transportation, communications and rehabilitation industries. Heidi has a strong track record of exceeding benchmarks and marketing goals to capture and develop new revenue streams for her clients. 

Heidi has traveled extensively throughout Asia and has lived in Japan, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. She is a graduate of the Canadian Academy in Kobe, Japan and worked at the international school in Beijing, China serving the diplomatic and international business communities. Heidi is a graduate of The Ohio State University.

She was appointed in 2012, and reappointed in 2014 by Governor John Kasich to the Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board and is also an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution having served locally as vice-regent. She has been an active volunteer for education and non-profit entities, and served as a member of the parents’ board for an accredited non-profit private pre-school. She lives on the eastside of Columbus with her husband and their two children.

Heidi is also actively involved in urban redevelopment and local government issues and ran for Columbus city council in 2007. Although an unsuccessful bid, Heidi obtained significant recognition for a dynamic grassroots campaign and key endorsements that included The Columbus Dispatch and the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 9.  Heidi is the past president of the Eastmoor Civic Association and Blockwatch (ECA&B) and former chair of the ECA&B Economic Development committee and a proven leader of neighborhood issues advocacy. She has an established record of leading efforts to improve code enforcement and safety, address critical issues of neighborhood infrastructure and work cooperatively with the City of Columbus and neighboring cities to build a long range plan for redevelopment of some of the city’s most important corridors.