Employee Ownership Events
Events on employee ownership, the ownership economy, and more. Updated ~weekly
Last updated Feb 19th, 2026. What are we missing, and do you have a recent event recap to share?
Feb 23: Ohio Employee Ownership Center’s webinar on story telling and employee ownership
Feb 24: North Carolina Employee Ownership Center’s NC Employee Ownership Ambassador Training Program
Feb 25-26: NCEO and Ohio Center for Employee Ownership’s National Employee-Owner Summit in Mesa, Arizona
Feb 26: Massachusetts Center for Employee Ownership and Common Trust’s webinar, Employee Ownership Trusts: Trusting You and Trusting Me
Feb 26: Cooperative Business Alliance of Maine’s Leadership Foundations - A Participatory Management Intensive for Co-ops
Feb 26: Project Equity’s event on Building Prosperity through Employee Ownership
Feb 26: Project Equity and Strategic Inflection Advisory’s Why Boutique Consultancies are Ideal for Employee Ownership Transitions
Feb 26: Rochester Institute of Technology’s The Future of Business - How Shared Ownership Drives Innovation and Performance
Feb 26-27: The Purpose Trust Ownership Conference in Austin, TX
Feb 27-Mar 4: Collective Diaspora’s Chocolate, Cooperatives and Culture of Trinidad tour
Feb 28: Legacy Exit’s Succession Planning Cohort Spring 2026 launch
March 3: SV2’s Innovative Finance Spotlight 2026 ft. Alison Lingane
March 3-24: The City of Minneapolis’s three-week Co-Op Startup Course
March 4: eoa’s online EO Leadership Development Program
March 10: Clarasys’ event on governance and ownership for purpose-driven businesses, Locking in Purpose: From mindset to mandate
March 10-11: eoa’s course on Representing and Developing Employee Voices
March 11: LevelUp Coops’ How Ownership Actually Works in a Worker Co-op: A Hands-On Introduction to Ownership Design webinar
March 12: EOX and Deanalytics’ Beyond Retirement, The Real Story of ESOP Payouts
🆕 | March 13: The Institute for Economic Democracy’s Advancing Worker Ownership: Reclaiming Economic Sovereignty in the 21st Century event in London
Mar 25-26: The Texas/Oklahoma Chapter of The ESOP Association’s Regional Conference in Austin, TX
Apr 6-9: NCEO’s Employee Ownership Conference in Milwaukee
Apr 11: Cooperative Business Alliance of Maine’s
May 2: Cooperative Development Foundation’s 5k in DC
May 5-8: The ESOP Association’s National Conference in Washington, D.C.
May 7-9: The Economy of Francesco’s event in Assisi, Italy
May 15-16: California Co-op Conference; accepting speaker proposals through Feb 2nd!
🆕 | May 23: The Economy of Francesco’s International Conference on Franciscan Economics in Sansepolcro, Italy
June 2-3: The Aspen-Rutgers Employee Ownership Ideas Forum in Washington, DC
June 16-17: NCEO’s New Manager Workshop in Denver, CO
June 16-17: NCEO’s New Manager Workshop for ESOP managers in Denver, CO
July 16-17: ESCA’s Midwestern Regional Policy Seminar in Chicago
June 19 (probably): UK EOT Day in Birmingham
June 28-30: ESOP Association’s CFO Summit in Sonoma, CA
July 8-10: 2026 IAFEP Conference at the University of Mondragon University in Oñati, Spain
Aug 23-25: ESOP Association’s CEO Summit in Ranchos Palos Verdes
Sep 15-17: International Cooperative Alliance’s General Assembly in Panama
Sep 22-23: The Great Game of Business Conference in St. Louis
Sept 23-25: ESCA’s Federal Policy Conference & Lobby Day in DC
Sept 28-29: 2026 Working Class Insights Forum in Middleburg, VA
Oct 1: Iowa Center for Employee Ownership’s Annual Conference in Ankeny, IA
Oct 19-21: ICA Group’s 10th Annual National Home Care Cooperative Conference in Tacoma, Washington
Oct 26-27: ESCA’s Pacific Regional Policy Seminar in Coronado, CA
Sep 1-3: The Great Game of Businesses’ 2026 conference in St. Louis, Missouri
Sep 1-4: The Royal Geographical Society’s Democratising the Economy conference in London
Nov 12–15: The 12th Platform Cooperativism Consortium Conference in Bangkok, Thailand
