Loren Rodgers, the NCEO's executive director: "I feel lucky because a big part of my job is talking with people about their dreams for their companies. 2018 was an especially wonderful year because we also worked on legislation, unveiled exciting research (see here and here), and produced some new resources (like this one) that we think will help make employee ownership grow and thrive. 2019 is looking like a year of growth, both for the NCEO and for employee ownership. You will see new publications, continuously innovating meetings, more dramatic research results, a new website, and lots of new projects to introduce more people to employee ownership. For those of us on the staff and board of the NCEO, the biggest internal change is the retirement of Deborah Krant, our conference director since 1997. We wish her well!"