Loren Rodgers
On February 25th, I sat down with Onex, Inc. President Ashleigh Walters, who shared her ESOP story. Onex, Inc. an Erie, Pennsylvania-based manufacturing company, became an ESOP in 2020. Their decision...well, I won’t give it away. Listen to Ashleigh share their decision-making process.
Loren Rodgers
The NCEO is seeking to hire a Director of Finance and Operations. The DFO is a new position, and it reports directly to the Executive Director. The DFO is responsible for the overall financial management of the organization and for managing and budgeting human resources, office management and general business operations. This is a regular, full-time exempt, at-will position. The DFO serves as an analytic partner for the Executive Director for finance, human resources and business operations.
Loren Rodgers
The next term of the NCEO's board of directors begins on April 1, 2021, and I am delighted to announce who will be joining our board of directors for this term.
Loren Rodgers
Training opportunities for CEOs are plentiful, but only one university-based program is designed exclusively for the CEOs of ESOP companies. The ESOP CEO Leadership Program cosponsored by the Employee Ownership Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice is scheduled to take place in person in Philadelphia:
Loren Rodgers
The Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing invites applications from doctoral students and pre/post tenure scholars for the 2021–2022 research fellowship competition.
Loren Rodgers
I'm hearing from a lot of our member companies that as we start getting a clearer picture of the coming post-pandemic era, their planning horizons are starting to get longer again. Perhaps in March they were trying to get through the day or the coming week; by fall they were thinking a couple months ahead; and now companies are working to rethink their strategic plans and long-term goals. We've seen this pattern many times over our 40-year history, and in this year's conference we built on that long-term perspective to create sessions that fit this economic moment.
Loren Rodgers
Several of our member reported receiving an email this morning from a sending called "Web Cargo" claiming to be the NCEO. This is not from us.
Loren Rodgers
On December 29, the New York Times ran a 2,000-word report on the Mondragon Cooperatives as part of its series on capitalism during the pandemic. For those unfamiliar with Mondragon, the Times covers the basics: it is a network of 96 enterprises primarily in the Basque region of Spain. Its member enterprises are in industries from manufacturing to engineering to retail, and together they have annual revenues of $14.5 billion and employ 70,000 people. Those workers own the company and govern it on a one-person-one-vote basis.
Loren Rodgers
The election for the NCEO’s board of directors opens today. Members in good standing of the NCEO will receive an email late tonight with a link to a confidential electronic ballot. Directors will be selected through this election and by appointment by the existing board. New directors will serve a three-year term from April 1, 2021, through March 31, 2024. Balloting will end on January 22.
