Break Out Two Seminars & Workshops

Choose a session that helps you explore employee ownership or bring EO to life in your business. To aid you in planning your itinerary and get the best out of your conference learning experience we’ve created some colour-coded categories.

Leadership and Governance Culture and Engagement EO Excellence Exploring EO  Finance EO Conversation

Choose one session

  • Time: 11:00 - 12:15
  • Session Type: Case Study Seminar
  • Theme: EO Excellence

Best in Class: Public Service Mutual of the Year

Hear from Community Dental Services and learn how their employee ownership success story saw them win the Public Service Mutual of the Year award in 2018.

  • Why attend: If you work within a mutual organisation and want to gain best practise on creating social return on investment.
  • Time: 11:00 - 12:15
  • Session Type: Case Study Seminar
  • Theme: Exploring EO

The journey to becoming employee owned

Listen to The Rooflight Company share their story of becoming employee owned, and the technical details from their advisors, J Gadd Associates & Postlethwaite.

  • Why attend: If you are exploring whether EO is right for your business.
  • Time: 11:00 - 12:15
  • Session Type: Case Study Seminar
  • Theme: Culture and Engagement

Getting staff surveys right

Learn from Surveylab on how you can efficiently and effectively conduct a staff survey and act on the results.

  • Why attend: If you want to capture employee views and then know what to do with the results.
  • Time: 11:00 - 12:15
  • Session Type: Panel
  • Theme: EO Conversation

The EO Debate: could the UK rail network be employee owned?

With growing political interest in alternative business models, join the debate to explore if employee ownership could be an option. In association with Ownership at Work

  • Why attend: If you have an interest in and appetite for being part of trying to solve a national challenge.
  • Time: 11:00 - 12:15
  • Session Type: Panel
  • Theme: Finance

Show me the money: equity and debt finance opportunities for employee owned businesses

Find out how, as an employee owned business you can access finance for transition and growth – where to start and who to speak too.

  • Why attend: If you have an interest in sourcing finance for your business to become employee owned or grow as an EOB.
  • Time: 11:00 - 12:15
  • Session Type: Case Study seminar
  • Theme: Leadership and Governance

How to form and run an effective staff council

Need help setting up your council? Hear from East Coast Community Healthcare on how they sucessfully got the interest from employees and made sure the council was effective.

  • Why attend: If you will be establishing your first staff council or need support in helping your existing council to develop.
  • Time: 11:00 - 12:15
  • Session Type: Case Study Seminar
  • Theme: Leadership and Governance

Founder in the red corner & employee owners in the blue corner; it doesn't have to be that way!

Hear from Co-ownership Solutions and Zircom on how it is possible for the founder to let go and for the employee owners to step up to ensure the business moves forward.

  • Why attend: If you have either role and want to ensure a smooth transition in the handing over of the business.
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  • Time: 11:00 - 12:15
  • Session Type: Case Study Seminar
  • Theme: Culture and Engagement

We are employee owned: now what?

How employee ownership feels ‘real’ in the business through engaging the employees, and the plan going forward.

  • Why attend: If you are employee owners wanting to make the most of your status.