First Person: Ashleigh Walters, Onex, Inc.

When my husband Drew and I bought Onex from his father in 2018, we didn’t hesitate when setting personal and company goals or looking forward at the company’s future.
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First Person: Adam Duthie, StoneAge

While I was talking and laughing with my six-year-old daughter Elouise on the chair lift for our third “one more” run at Purgatory, Colorado (enjoying an unseasonably warm weekend ski day in February 2020), my phone rang. “Hi, Adam, it’s Janet—how’s your weekend going?
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First Person: Nick Kukulan, CEO of Paramount Export

As a family-owned business for more than a half century, the decision of who to sell to and how to sell Paramount Export was a weighty topic with lots of potential ramifications.
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First Person: Tim Everidge, Radian Research

Radian Research in Lafayette, IN, is a 100% ESOPowned manufacturer of metrology products, primarily for the utility industry. Radian has been moving quicklyto a high-involvement management process, and we vasked Tim Everidge, Radian’s CEO, to describe it.
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Forty Years of NCEO Conferences

In April 1982 the NCEO held its first annual conference. We were just two years old and still figuring out how to be a self-sustaining, effective organization. We had no almost money, just two staff members, and had held only one small local event before. But how hard could it be?