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S7E1 Where Employee Ownership Meets Economic Development: A Conversation with Michael Darger
SUMMARY: In this episode of Owners at Work, we talk with Michael Darger, an economic development specialist with the University of Minnesota Extension, about business succession planning, ownership…
S6E5 40 Million Owners: Expanding Employee Ownership Through Acquisitions
SUMMARY: In this episode of Owners at Work, we talk with Mike Brady of 40 Million Owners about how the firm helps ESOP companies grow through strategic, values-aligned acquisitions. Mike explains…
S6E4 Purpose Trusts and EOTs: Expanding the Ownership Conversation
SUMMARY: In this episode of Owners at Work, we sit down with Zoe Schlag of Common Trust and Mark Hand of the Purpose Trust Ownership Network (PTON) to explore the growing momentum behind Employee…
S6E3 Making It Work: How Apis & Heritage Is Closing the Capital Gap in EO Transitions
SUMMARY: In this episode of Owners at Work, we sit down with Todd Leverette and Kyle Chin-How of Apis & Heritage Capital Partners (A&H)—the 2025 recipient of the John Logue Award in Employee…
S6E1 How Expanding ESOPs Plans to Unlock Trillions in Wealth for Workers
Guests: Danny Massey, Head of Strategy and Communications at Expanding ESOPs SUMMARY: In this episode of the Owners at Work podcast, we speak with Danny from Expanding ESOPs, a new national…
S6E1 Building Employee Ownership Collaboration
SUMMARY: In this episode Chris Cooper sits down with Jim O'Brien founder and current President of Go2Partners, a 100% ESOP Company. We talk about the interesting way in which Go2Partners was founded…
S5E6 How Direct Employee Ownership Created the Right Succession Plan, and Company Culture, at Cargas
SUMMARY: One of the exciting happenings in the world of employee ownership today is the proliferation of different models and methods for bringing employees into the ownership of a company. In this…
S5E5 The State of Sector: Worker Cooperatives
Guests: Olga Prushinskaya and Jamie Pockrandt, Democracy at Work Institute Summary: The second most common form of employee ownership in the United States is the worker cooperative where workers…
S5E4 Measuring the Impact of Employee Ownership in the United Kingdom
Guest: Campbell McDonald, Ownership Works SUMMARY: Much of the work for raising awareness and advocating for supportive policies for further expansion relies on data collection. When making the…
S5E3 Gina Schaefer on The Power of Telling Your Story
Guest: Gina Schaefer SUMMARY: For 38 years, the OEOC has gathered hundreds of people from across the employee ownership community at our Annual Conference and every year, we invite a keynote speaker…
S5E2 Employee Ownership in the Americas: A Path to Shared Prosperity
SUMMARY: When we think about expanding awareness about employee ownership, we often think of the United States and how much more work we have to do. However, the movement to expand the prevalence and…
S5E1 The European ESOP – A New Model of Employee Ownership
SUMMARY: When we look into the field of employee ownership three major models come to mind, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), worker cooperatives, and employee-owned trusts. But practitioners…
S4E7 Project Equity's Reflections on the Kendeda Fund's Big Bet Grant
SUMMARY Back in 2018 the Kendeda Fund, a philanthropic foundation based in Atlanta, decided to make a series of big bets in areas that were both critical and timely. One of those areas was employee…
S4E8 Nexus Community Partner's Reflections on the Kendeda Fund's Big Bet Grant
SUMMARY Back in 2018 the Kendeda Fund, a philanthropic foundation based in Atlanta, decided to make a series of big bets in areas that were both critical and timely. One of those areas was employee…
S4E9 The Fund for Employee Ownership's Reflections on the Kendeda Fund's Big Bet Grant
SUMMARY Back in 2018 the Kendeda Fund, a philanthropic foundation based in Atlanta, decided to make a series of big bets in areas that were both critical and timely. One of those areas was employee…
S4E6 ICA Group's Reflections on the Kendeda Fund's Big Bet Grant
SUMMARY Back in 2018 the Kendeda Fund, a philanthropic foundation based in Atlanta, decided to make a series of big bets in areas that were both critical and timely. One of those areas was employee…
Cooperatives at Work with George Cheney
SUMMARY: For too long, cooperatives have been cast to the margins of our economy and discussions around economic development and community building. Yet, there are numerous examples throughout the US…
S4E4 Unpacking the Meanings of Ownership
SUMMARY: If one thing is true, its that the word ownership has baggage – every person has a different conception of what it means. In this episode we speak with Chris Mackin, who has worked in the…
S4E3 Preparing to Sell Your Company – What You Need to Know
SUMMARY: In this episode Chris Cooper speaks with Eric Zaleski and Michael Rosendahl of PCE Investment Bankers, about what business owners should be thinking about, and doing, to prepare for a…
S4E2 Economic Outlook and What it Means for Company Valuations
Guest: Eric Flickinger and Matt Silla SUMMARY: In this episode we sit down with two valuation experts, Eric Flickinger and Matt Silla of Apple Growth Partners. The conversation is wide ranging and…
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