The OVLA offers to members and nonmembers numerous opportunities to guarantee lease consultants and lessors remain on the cutting edge. This is particularly important in an industry that faces new competitive pressures each day. To enable lease consultants and lessors keep up with the life-long learning process, The OVLA offers educational programs that provide opportunities to network with peers.

To keep on top of the latest issues, lease consultants and lessors can attend two statewide meetings each year at Columbus, The OVLA Convention & Product Fair each Spring and The OVLA Fall Conference in the Fall. Regional meetings are held in Northeast and Southwest Ohio.

The OVLA also sponsors the continuing education program Ohio Certified Lease Consultant, a four-session, 18-hour, two-year, stay in Ohio training program.

For those who crave face-to-face contact with your vehicle leasing industry peers in this increasingly high-tech world the place to do it is at meeting of The OVLA. A recent survey of members voted "networking with peers" as a major reason to belong to the Association.

"Nothing will ever replace the face-to-face peer interplay for which The OVLA meetings are famous networking, high-level learning, information exchange, problem-solving, and business," said one member during the survey. "It is why lease consultants and lessors come - just for that human interaction."