Employee Ownership Blog

Timothy Garbinsky

November 20, 2020

ESOP-Owned Black & Veatch Focuses on Sustainable Energy

Employee ownership provides a lot of benefits to employees, communities, and companies, but one of the less discussed but most important features of employee ownership is that it allows companies to focus on long-term goals and values, not the short-term goals of public company shareholders or private equity firm buyers. Black & Veatch is the 10th-largest majority ESOP-owned company and the 12th-largest engineering company (in fact, 7 of the top 20 are employee-owned, and 6 are NCEO members). Recently, it made a major decision to focus on sustainable energy products and move away from any coal-related projects.

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NCEO

November 18, 2020

Registration Open: 2021 Virtual Annual Employee Ownership Conference

We invite you to join us on April 20 and 21, 2021, for the NCEO's virtual Annual Employee Ownership Conference. Register before November 30 to be entered into a raffle for a #bettertogether box filled with fun items from an employee-owned company. Register now!

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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.

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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.

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Admin

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.  

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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.

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