🌇 Employee Ownership Events

Events on shared ownership, the ownership economy, and more. Updated ~weekly

Last updated Aug 22nd, 2025. What are we missing?

• August 26: Kennesaw State University’s webinar, A Tax Advantageous Ownership Transition Strategy for Family Business

• August 24-26: The ESOP Association’s Annual CEO Summit in Jackson Hole, WY

• August 27: NCEO’s EOT One-Day Workshop on employee ownership trusts in Philadelphia

• August 28: Common Trust’s Owner’s Session hosts the founders of The Ready, a new employee ownership trust

• August 30: The 3rd annual Rutgers-Oxford Employee Ownership Research Symposium in Oxford, UK

• September 1: The Robert Oakeshott Lecture 2025 at Bayes Business School, exploring research and public policy needs in the UK

• September 9: Mission Investors Exchange’s Ownership Lens Series part 2: Investing for Systemic Change Through Employee Ownership (virtual)

• September 9-10: Texas/Oklahoma Chapter of The ESOP Association’s 2025 Fall Conference in Dallas, TX 🤠

• Sep 9-11: The annual Great Game of Business Conference in Arlington, TX 🤠

• September 9-30: NCEO’s weekly crash course on communication in the context of employee ownership

• September 10-12: Employee-Owned S Corporations of America’s 2025 Federal Policy Conference & Lobby Day in DC

• September 10-12: The Employee Ownership Canada 2025 Conference in

  Calgary, AB, including a panel on the role of financing

• September 11-12: NCEO+OEOC’s National Employee-Owner Summit in Chicago

• September 13: Purpose Economy’s panel, Stewardship: Who should hold power over companies, and who should benefit from their profits? at the Next Economies Summit (In Istanbul)

• September 23-25: Common Trust’s second Steward’s Circle in Indianapolis

• September 24: The Employee Ownership Expansion (EOX) Network’s Legacy, Loyalty, and Local Impact: Bloomsdale Excavating Company’s Journey to Employee Ownership (virtual)

• 🆕 October 4: The 2025 NY Cooperative Summit in, Albany, NY

• October 6-7: Employee-Owned S Corporations of America’s 2025 Pacific Regional Policy Seminar in Marina del Rey, CA

• October 7: Ownership Economy’s Reinventing Corporate Governance for Good

• 🆕 October 9: Purpose Economy’s SO:25 conference on steward ownership in Berlin

• October 16: the Business Transitions Forum in Winnipeg

• October 20-21: NCEO’s two-day event, Is An ESOP Right For You? in Baltimore

• October 23: The 3rd Annual Employee Ownership Conference in Ankeny, OH

• October 27-29: Social Capital Markets’ SOCAP25 in San Francisco

• November 12-14: Morehouse College’s Vision and Victory Conference: Expanding Black Employee Ownership in Atlanta

  • For more on The Stakehold’s prior work in Georgia, see Building an Ecosystem Around Shared Ownership

2026 (😱)

• January 9-11: Rutgers Institute’s annual Kelso Fellows Workshop in New Brunswick, NJ

• January 9: EOA hosts Rutgers Institute’s Joseph Blasi

• February 26-27: The first-ever Purpose Trust Ownership Conference in Austin, TX

• 🆕 April 6-9, 2026: NCEO’s Employee Ownership Conference in Milwaukee

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