Employee Ownership Blog

We are pleased to announce the opening of our spring 2021 CEPI Exam Prep Course and the NCEO's participation in the upcoming 17th Annual CEPI and Silicon Valley NASPP Symposium.

On February 25th, I sat down with Onex, Inc. President Ashleigh Walters, who shared her ESOP story.

In its report "A Job Quality Agenda for the Next Administration," the Aspen Institute, a leading nonpartisan think tank, joined the Center for American Progress, Council of Economic Advisors member Jared Bernstein, and others to “Promote employee ownership and worker cooperative models, which have been shown to have a positive association with quality jobs, by offering technical assistance and access to appropriate financing to support transitions to employee ownership, as well as new business development that includes some form of employee ownership."

Forty-six of the 78 companies that have stock on the recently released Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list for 2020 have some form of broad-based employee ownership plan, the highest percentage yet.

Based on data from Forbes, the country’s 679 billionaires saw their wealth increase by $1.3 trillion since the official start of the pandemic in March 2020.

It is more important than ever to attend our annual Employee Ownership Conference.

Pete Stavros, a partner and co-head of private equity for the Americas at KKR, the third-largest private equity fund in the world, told the Wall Street Journal that he and his wife plan to contribute $10 million to launch the Center for Shared Ownership.

An NCEO analysis of Glassdoor ratings of companies on the Employee Ownership 100 list shows that they tend to be more highly rated by employees than their competitors. The study looked at the three main Glassdoor ratings:

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.

Training opportunities for CEOs are plentiful, but only one university-based program is designed exclusively for the CEOs of ESOP companies.

Ashleigh Walters, the president of Onex, Inc., will detail the story from her new book Leading with Grit and Grace at two upcoming NCEO events.

Ken Baker, the CEO of Southampton, PA-based NewAge Industries, has donated $3 million to Montgomery County Community College to start the Baker Center of Excellence for Employee Ownership and Business Transformation.