Introduction to Employee Ownership: and why these companies perform consistently better (Room: Suite 15)

​Panel Leader: Mike Seo,

​Panel Members: John A. McNamara, Linda Womack

​Studies show that employee ownership helps:
- companies perform consistently better
- with in wealth accumulation
- reducing layoffs

But which employee-owned business structure will work best for your business?

​-Business owners can think about converting their business into an employee-owned company (Worker co-op, Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Employee Ownership Trust) as their exit strategy, or as their non-exit, perpetual operation strategy

​-By converting into an employee ownership, the business owners can preserve their business legacy and impact while making sure their employees can have access to profit sharing and democratic governance in a long run