SOD Executive Director

Julie Needs Salem Ohio SOD Center executive director headshotJulie Needs, Executive Director, SOD Center

Needs is from New Galilee, Pennsylvania. She attended Beaver Falls High School and Clarion University. She has devoted the last 17 years of her 24-year career to Home Savings Bank in Youngstown and most recently as the branch manager in Salem, Ohio. Her career has seen her work throughout Western Pennsylvania and Northeastern Ohio in finance, sales and management.

Julie brings strategic management and extensive experience in the business world to the SOD Center, as well as hands-on know how working with entrepreneurs managing small businesses.

In addition to being active professionally, Needs is also involved in the community including serving on the Salem Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors as treasurer. She is an active member of the Salem Rotary.

She enjoys golf, travel and volunteering at Holy Family School. She is married with one child and resides in Poland.

Julie Needs can be reached by Contacting SOD Center >

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We support your business growth through site selection, retention, expansion, entrepreneurship, infrastructure, workforce development and quality of life. No wonder, businesses are Growing In Salem.

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Julie Needs and the SOD Center have been a critical partner of Salem Welding & Supply over the past decade. Without their help we would have struggled with knowing what grants and resources were available to us. We trusted them to help our growth as we made a land / building acquisition in 2015, and now we trust them to lead us in our new expansion, almost doubling our size & capability!

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Tom Baker, 
Vice President
Salem Welding & Supply Co.
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The SOD Center is my first choice when facilitating training and development opportunities for area businesses. The location, training room options, and onsite technology collectively create the optimal space for all my training needs.

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Joanna Forbes, SHRM-SCP
owner / chief consultant
Forbes Human Resources, LLC
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We support all businesses, small and large, to attract, retain, expand and develop. We help build entrepreneurship, provide training facilities and connect you with the right resources – while collaborating with regional, state and national resources. We are all Growing in Salem.

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Julie Needs
Executive Director
SOD Center
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The (SOD Training Center) staff always goes above and beyond to ensure our area businesses, employees, and training facilitators have the tools and resources they need to create a positive learning environment.

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Joanna Forbes, SHRM-SCP
owner / chief consultant
Forbes Human Resources, LLC
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SOD center is an excellent resource for professional training. Classes are well structured and tremendous benefit for development of local workforce.

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