Loren Rodgers
The NCEO's Innovative Communication Coalition met on Monday to talk about Employee Ownership Month. Although no summary can capture the richness of the conversation, I took home four new ideas about how to get the maximum impact from Employee Ownership Month.
Loren Rodgers
Business bankers see companies of different sizes, ages, industries, and they may think there are no surprises left… until they see what an ESOP does to a company’s financials.
Loren Rodgers
Is employee assessment different in employee-owned companies than in traditional businesses? The NCEO’s CEO roundtable addressed tools for skills assessment in its meeting, and the results were thought-provoking.
Loren Rodgers
The NCEO is delighted to announce that, following a national job search, we have filled a new position that will oversee all of the NCEO's in-person and virtual events. The new position, our senior director of events, will be filled by Jaymie Oviedo, who is moving to this position from her prior NCEO staff role as our conference coordinator.
Loren Rodgers
The Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers University announced the latest scholars awarded fellowships to study employee ownership and related topics for the coming academic year.
Loren Rodgers
Victor Aspengren has succeeded Mary Boettcher as the chair of the NCEO's board of directors as of today. Mary had been the chair of the NCEO's board of directors since 2019; as the chief steward of the organization's mission to help employee ownership thrive, Mary says, " I am grateful for the opportunity to have served as chair of this extraordinary organization for the past three years. What a tumultuous time period for any organization, and none displayed more strength, determination, and agility than the NCEO. NCEO staff continues to deliver outstanding critical educational resources and research to support our employee ownership community and their passion to serve and grow employee ownership is ever-present. I look forward to continuing to serve as immediate past chair on the board of directors for the next two years!"
Loren Rodgers
When we started planning this year's conference, we knew we needed a health protocol system that would give people enough foresight to plan a trip many months in advance. Since people have widely different views on COVID safety, we decided that the best approach is to serve people who are more cautious, recognizing that we’d be asking some people to be more cautious than they felt necessary. We have many attendees in high-risk groups, and we also didn’t know what the COVID situation would be by the time April arrived. All of that seemed to argue for a conservative approach.
Loren Rodgers
The NCEO is delighted to welcome new members of its staff!
Loren Rodgers
Since the February 1 release of the NBC News Now story “Instead of ‘I quit,’ workers at these companies say they’re staying put and reaping rewards,” inspired by new NCEO research supported by ESCA, the NCEO has received many inquiries from people wanting to know more and asking for ways they can easily share the information.
