Fisher, Lee

Education: J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law; MNO, Case Western Reserve University Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences; bachelor’s degree, Oberlin College

What Guides My Decision Making: Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Favorite Quote: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou

What Motivates Me: Educating and training the next generation of leaders and filling Northeast Ohio’s talent pipeline with those leaders

Most Important Leadership Quality: Ability to adapt to changing circumstances in a volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous world

If I Could Have Any Other Job: Quarterback, Cleveland Browns (for more than one season)

Proudest Moment: Authoring Ohio’s Hate Crime Law as a State Senator and defending its constitutionality before the Ohio Supreme Court years later as Attorney General