Loren Rodgers
On March 31, the European Federation of Employee Share Ownership (EFES) reported on the state of employee ownership in Europe in 2020 in its annual report on employee ownership in European countries. Author Marc Mathieu notes that “the upward trend in the number of employee shareholders continues,” but also that it may be in danger in Europe as it becomes “less and less democratic.”
Loren Rodgers
On April 16, the NCEO’s preconference sessions will give you a chance to dig in and make headway on one single employee ownership issue. You can go into more depth than in a conference sessions without devoting a whole workday. The preconference sessions are 2.5 hours, which is a quick way to get a block of continuing education credit, and each preconference includes an integrated set of presentations to move you from point A to point B, whether you are starting from scratch or are a “regular” at our conferences.
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.
