Employee Ownership Blog

Kim Blaugher

November 17, 2020

Guest Blog: New Beyster UCSD Course for ESOP Professionals

The ESOP community has asked for a graduate-level course that will provide emerging consultants with the broad level of knowledge required of them, and we are happy to help meet that need. The Beyster Institute is excited to announce our new academic course in partnership with the University of California, San Diego Extension team. "Understanding ESOPs: Training to be an ESOP Professional" is a 16-week course for both emerging leaders in the ESOP community and those new to the world of employee ownership. We have invited subject-matter experts from key areas of employee ownership to pass on their high-level knowledge and wisdom through lectures and specialized activities.

Loren Rodgers

November 16, 2020

NCEO Board of Directors Nominations Are Open

Annual elections for our board of directors will take place in January, and members in good standing are invited to nominate themselves or other members during the nomination window, from now until December 18.

Jordan Boone

November 16, 2020

2021 Webinars: Make Your Voice Heard

If there is anything that 2020 has taught our community, it’s reinvention. We at the NCEO have made incredible changes to our programming over the past 10 months. Along the way, we learned valuable lessons about how we fit into your lives. With those lessons in mind, we are redesigning our webinar program to deliver up-to-the-minute employee ownership information in a format that fits today’s reality.

Jaymie Oviedo

November 10, 2020

Celebrate the ESOP Community at Our Annual Conference

Throughout this pandemic, the NCEO has remained committed to supplying our community and members with resources that make employee ownership thrive. The Annual Employee Ownership Conference is one of the best resources we offer, a highly anticipated event that brings attendees from companies, service provider firms, and other interested organizations together for networking, education, collaboration, and celebration.

Loren Rodgers

November 02, 2020

Join Us in Supporting Employee Ownership in South Africa

The founding director of the Southern Africa Employee Ownership Association (SAEOA), Tendani Nelwamondo, virtually attended the NCEO’s Fall ESOP Forum, where several attendees had a chance to talk with him. The NCEO actively supports the efforts by the SAEOA and Nelwamondo to promote employee ownership in South Africa, and we invite you to join us: please make a donation to the NCEO designated for the SAEOA.

Nancy Wiefek

October 29, 2020

New Research on Employee Ownership and the Pandemic

The pandemic is a critically important time to conduct research exploring how businesses and their employees have fared, and what are successful ways to reduce the negative impacts from this crisis. Employee ownership is a key factor to be explored in this context. The challenge has always been collecting comparison data on companies without employee ownership. With funding from the Employee Ownership Foundation, scholars at Rutgers University’s Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing recently took on this challenge working with the national survey firm, SSRS.

Greg Trees

October 28, 2020

How Our ESOP Helped Us Become One of KC’s Best Places to Work

October is Employee Ownership Month, and this year we celebrated it along with Dialectic’s recent recognition as one of Kansas City Business Journal’s Best Places to Work (BPTW). There are a lot of reasons we’re a BPTW winner, but one of the biggest is something I’m passionate about: our employee ownership model.

Dallan Guzinski

October 26, 2020

Ownership Culture Insights: Learning from Fellow Employee-Owners

Last week, I had a conversation with Aaron Moberger, an employee-owner and cellar manager at Harpoon Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts. Aaron has been speaking at NCEO events and sharing his insights and experiences with other employee-owners for several years now. In fact, one of the reasons he and Harpoon Brewery have been so generous with their time and so willing to share what they have learned with others is because many employee-owned companies in the New England area were so willing to do the same for them when they became an ESOP company in 2014. When the news broke that the company was making the transition, companies such as Web Industries, Carris Reels, Hypertherm, and King Arthur Baking Company were quick to reach out and open their doors to employee-owners at Harpoon Brewery, offering to share everything they had learned on their own ESOP journeys.

Corey Rosen

October 23, 2020

Huawei's Phantom Plan Provides Real Ownership for 90,000 Employees

Huawei Technologies is the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world and the second-largest manufacturer of smartphones. It has close to 200,000 employees worldwide, mostly in China. It also claims to be employee-owned, which, if true, would make it the second-largest majority employee-owned company in the world, just after Publix in the US.

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