OH.01Ohio · Central Ohio
Consulting in Columbus
Columbus grew for decades by being good at unglamorous things: insurance and banking headquarters, retail brands, logistics within a day's drive of much of the American population, and a flagship university. The chip fabs now under construction east of the city turn a steady story into an industrial one.
The local terrain
What actually drives Columbus.
Columbus's base is stability at scale — major insurance headquarters, regional banking, retail and fashion brands run from the metro, and the state-government and university complex beneath them. Its logistics position is genuinely strategic: the Rickenbacker inland port and the I-70/I-71 crossroads put a large share of US consumers within a one-day truck run. The semiconductor campus rising in Licking County is among the largest industrial investments in American history and is already reorganizing the region's construction, supplier, and workforce math.
The market's questions span both halves: legacy institutions modernizing operations and technology at insurance-grade caution, and a region absorbing an industrial build-out that will strain every input — land, labor, power, housing — for a decade. Strategy and process discipline on both fronts is precisely our lane.
- Economic anchors
- Insurance & banking headquarters concentration
- Rickenbacker inland port & one-day-drive logistics position
- Landmark semiconductor campus under construction
- Flagship-university & state-capital stability
- Metro
- Central Ohio
- Taxonomy
- OH.01
- Engagement
- Remote + on-site
A note on how we work in Columbus. Praxis is an independent, service-area advisory practice led by Evan Dang — we work with Columbus companies remotely and on-site as an engagement requires, and we keep no walk-in office in the city. What you engage is the thinking and the work, delivered where the decisions are made.
The sectors that matter here
Where the local economy concentrates.
These are the industries that carry the weight in Columbus. Each has its own practice at Praxis — its strategic terrain, the services that fit it, and an honest FAQ.
- 01Insurance & bankingHeadquarters institutions modernizing at deliberate speed — with technology bets that must clear risk review.Finance & Insurance practice
- 02Inland-port logisticsA one-day-drive position to much of the US population, anchored by an inland port built for it.Transportation & Logistics practice
- 03Semiconductors & enterprise techA generational fab investment pulling suppliers, data centers, and technical talent into Central Ohio.Technology & IT practice
Where we start
The services that fit Columbus.
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Business process consulting
Process modernization inside institutions where reliability is the brand.
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Digital transformation
Technology-led operating redesign at insurance-grade caution and headquarters scale.
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Procurement consulting
Supplier positioning around a build-out that will strain every regional input for a decade.
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Strategy consulting
Building a deliberate position on Central Ohio's industrial decade instead of just absorbing it.
Questions
Working with us in Columbus.
- What does the chip campus mean for a mid-size Columbus business?
- A decade of demand and a decade of strain, at once: supplier and services opportunities worth pursuing deliberately, against labor, land, and cost pressure that will hit every plan. We help operators build a position on the build-out instead of just absorbing it.
- Do you serve insurance and financial institutions here?
- Finance and insurance is one of our six industry practices, and Columbus's carriers and banks are exactly its terrain: modernization at institutional caution, process redesign, and growth strategy that clears risk and compliance review rather than colliding with it.
Bring us a decision in Columbus.
A first conversation is a scoping conversation — no obligation, no packaged pitch. Tell us what you're deciding, and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right firm for it.
No obligation · a scoping conversation first