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Digital Networking at the EOA Annual Conference 2021

All Three Days - 16-18th November 11:00 - 11:45 13:45 - 14:15 15:00 - 15:30 16:15 - 17:00 Our Virtual Conference platform uses AirMeet to let you connect with your peers in an open digital space. Carry on the conversation from our Q&A sessions and meet the speakers! Network with other employee owners and share best practice. Join facilitated discussion tables covering topics such as "How do we get the best Trust Board?" and "Overcoming potential barriers to EO". Catch up with old friends in the sector!

EOA Annual Conference – Being an Employee Owner, as told by the team.

Day Two - 17.11.2021 Being an Employee Owner, as told by the team 13:00 - 13:40 Ever wondered what it's like to be an employee owner in an EO business? Hear the warts and all story of being employee owned from the perspective of Network ROI's employee owners in this case study presentation and Q&A session. You'll learn: How their roles have changed since becoming employee owned. What have they done differently as a business since becoming employee owned. How have they made the most of being employee owners.

100 years of Scott Bader: Unlocking the potential of our people

Day three - 18.11.2021 100 years of Scott Bader: Unlocking the potential of our people 12:00 - 12:45 The last few years represent a period of accelerated change for Scott Bader as the company has adapted to ensure it stays relevant and alive to the changing opportunities and challenges for the business. At the heart of this change is empowering people to live Scott Bader values “being the best we can be” to unlock the potential of their people. Join Dr Kevin Matthews, CEO and Juliet Thorburn, Global HR Director, as they share the story of how they have delivered the period of transformation, reinvention and sustainability as they ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – EO Stories Celebration

Day Two - 17.11.2021 EO Celebration 12:00 - 12:45 The EOA, in partnership with Baxendale, called for you to tell your stories of how being employee owned has supported your business during a time of great change and our members voted. We have been hearing from employee owned businesses of all sizes about how their focus on their people has supported employee health and wellbeing, helped the business adapt and delivered benefit for multiple stakeholders. We'll be announcing the winners of each category. Read the EO story submissions here

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Shouting it From the Treetops: GO APE Goes EO

Day One - 16.11.2021 Shouting it From the Treetops: GO APE goes EO 11:45 - 12:45 As Go Ape becomes the latest business to transition to employee ownership, EOA Chief Executive Deb Oxley OBE will interview founders, Rebecca and Tristram Mayhew , who have announced that 90% of Go Ape shares will be transferred into an EOT, for the benefit of all current and future employees. From their acorn-like beginnings to Tree-mendous growth and swinging back into action post lockdown making the most of staycations, Deb will probe how the 1,000 employees feel about this move from feeling like family to having a stake in the action.

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – How to become employee owned

Day Two - 17.11.2021 13:00 - 13:40 How to become employee owned So you’ve made the decision for the business to become employee owned, this session will show you how to make it happen. You'll learn: How a business can complete a ‘good’ transition to employee ownership - creating an effective plan for delivery, the different models of employee ownership available as well as the financial implications of the transition. What to look out for and to how prepare and manage key moments. Understanding the documents needed for employee ownership, ensuring they are forward thinking. Join leading employee ownership experts and ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Five years employee owned: re-invigorating the business

Day Three - 18.11.2021 Five years employee owned: re-invigorating the business 15:30 - 16:10 Since TateHindle became employee owned in 2016, company profits have been used to pay off the original shareholders. Now this process is complete, employees are benefiting financially (in the form of profit share) and are feeling an even greater stake in the business. Mechanisms for increased engagement are leading to more innovative ideas, increased profitability and a greater shared commitment to the long-term success of the business. You will learn: TateHindle’s reflections on the past and plans for the future now the original shareh...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – 15:30 – 16:10 Creating the Architype Community; inclusive, healthy and progressive employees

Day Two - 18.11.2021 Creating the Architype Community; inclusive, healthy and progressive employees 15:30 - 16:10 Being shortlisted for the AJ100 Employer of the Year recognises the significant progress Architype have made towards an inclusive, healthy and progressive workforce. Judges were particularly impressed by their emphasis on mental wellbeing and diversity. You will learn: How Architype unlock the potential of people by creating opportunities to develop Approach to well-being, with a focus on mental health Approach to fostering Diversity & Inclusion Read Architype's story About the speakers M...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Employee Council; do I need one?

Day Three - 18.11.2021 Employee Council; do I need one? 15:30 - 16:10 Ensuring employee representation is a vital part of setting up an employee owned business. Join Dave Seaward, founder and engineering director and Jake Canner, Project Engineer and employee representative at 3P Innovation and Andrew Wilson, Director at THSP to hear two different approaches. You will learn: How to start one, how to operate effectively, its role. What are the alternatives to ensuring employee representation. About the speakers Jake Canner, employee representative at 3P Innovation Jake Canner is a mechanical engineer who ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Research

Day Three - 18.11.2021 UK's Latest Research Into Governance of Employee Ownership Trusts 14:15 - 14:55 You will learn: New comparative insight into how employee owned businesses are structuring their Employee Ownership Trusts Experts Graeme Nuttall OBE and Sue Lawrence share results and showcase good governance About the speakers Sue Lawrence Sue is the Founder of Independent Directors and Trustees Limited, a collective of NEDs and Independent Trustees to SME companies who share their collective knowledge and experience for the benefit of their own continued education and in support of their clients needs.She is ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Admin requirements of being EO

Day Three - 18.11.2021 Admin requirements of being EO 14:15 - 14:55 While becoming employee owned brings a wealth of benefits, there are technical hurdles that need to be tackled in the administration of an employee owned business. In this session you’ll hear from EOA member Baxendale and learn how to understand the administrative requirements of being employee owned, as well as the most effective way to fulfil those requirements.

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Synergy Vision: Unlocking the potential of people

Day Three - 18.11.2021 13:00 - 13:40 Synergy Vision: How we achieved Investors in People Platinum accreditation and named the UK's 3rd Best Small Workplace Starting with a vision, and sticking to their principles, Synergy Vision have always aimed to have a team-focused ethos, promoting diversity in the workplace, a positive work-life balance and excellence in delivering for clients. This includes initiatives such as the 4-day working week, personalised benefits packages, a bespoke graduate development scheme for industry first-timers, as well as a programme to catapult mid-level managers to senior positions. Initiatives like these have ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Becoming EO: Lessons Learned

Day Three - 18.11.2021 14:15 - 14:55 Becoming EO: Lessons Learned Hear Danny Sims, Chairman and Lucy Pawson, HR Manager from market research company DJS Research share their insights and lessons learned on their transition to becoming EO; from their thinking behind their ownership structure, bringing on board an independent trustee with EO experience, to bringing the team along on the journey and maximising reputational impact with customers, future employees and stakeholders. On 1st July 2021, market research company DJS Research began a new chapter in their 20-year story, officially becoming an employee owned company. Having ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Becoming EO: How Purcell became employee owned

Day Three - 18.11.2021 13:00 - 13:40 Purcell became employee owned in May 2021, having recognised its culture had grown to align with many of the values associated with an employee owned business. As an award-winning architectural and heritage consultancy practice, employing a talented workforce of 250 people across the UK and around the world, it was a pivotal moment in the practice's 74-year history that took careful planning to ensure sustainable future success. You will hear first-hand experience from Purcell of what was involved in the planning and how colleagues were involved to different extents at key stages in the journey. You will ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Internal communication plan for transitioning to EO

Day Two - 17.11.2021 15:30 - 16:10 Internal communication plan for transitioning to EO Hear from Founder Ben Hirst and Director of People and Internal Communications Lucy Normanton about the employee ownership transition of Horizon Platforms. Ben and Lucy share insight on how the Horizon leadership team worked tirelessly together to ensure the move to employee ownership was carried out in the best way possible, to foster the ongoing commitment of its 75 co-owners and protect a fantastic culture. Founder, Ben Hirst said: I was determined to protect all the great things about Horizon, the most important of these being our people, ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – People First: The employee owned story of Howden Group

Day Two - 17.11.2021 15:30 - 16:10 People First: The employee owned story of Howden Group. In 2019 Howden Group Holdings celebrated 25 years of high growth and a different way of doing business. Coming from just three people in a tiny London office to one of the biggest insurance brokers on the world stage, with employee ownership at their heart. As they look to the next 25, you will hear how Howden Group have a renewed focus with a ‘People First’ strategy central to their transformation. You will hear from David Howden, Chief Executive Officer, Diahann Williams, HR Director and Eliot Powell, Chief Transformation Officer who will ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Employees acting as owners – how do you turn this into reality?

Day Two - 17.11.2021 14:15 - 14:55 Employees acting as owners - how do you turn this into reality? Clarasys has been named one of the best companies to work for in 2021 across three categories by Best Companies, including: 5th Best Mid-Sized Company to Work For. In this session you will hear from Matt Cheung, CEO of Clarasys who will share employee engagement strategies that have helped achieve these accolades. You will learn: How do we understand whether employees are engaged? How do we organise to enable employee engagement? How do remove things that stop people having fun at work? How does a happy and engaged ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Effective leadership behaviours

Day Three - 18.11.2021 13:00 - 13:40 Effective leadership behaviours What are the behaviours and skills that enable leaders in employee-owned organisations to effectively lead teams as co-owners? Join leading employee ownership expert Philippa Meaden, Lead Associate at EOA Annual Conference sponsors J Gadd Associates , who will help you understand how to engage, inspire and enable co-owners to embrace the opportunities this creates. You will learn: • Recognising the impact behaviour has on the culture of an employee owned business and employee buy-in. • Awareness of how leadership behaviours may need to change being employee ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Your options for accessing finance

Day Two - 17.11.2021 Your options for accessing finance 14:15 - 14:55 Banks and investors have a role to play in the unlocking the potential that employee ownership can bring in terms of benefits to businesses, staff and customers. both in financing the transition and investing in future growth. However, many employee ownership businesses have struggled to raise finance because of financial institutions’ lack of awareness or understanding about the sector and its characteristics. In this panel discussion and Q&A you will learn: Awareness of the options available. What do lenders and investors want to know. Julia Godino, ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Creating and maintaining an innovation mindset within the team

Day Three - 18.11.2021 14.15 - 14.55 Creating and maintaining an innovation mindset within the team Innovation is a question of mindset. But what is required to make that happen? Join EOA members Loadhog and Tenscare for a session where they will share how they have fostered a culture of innovation to drive growth. You will learn: How an EO culture has driven an innovation mindset. How employee voice can be integrated into the innovation process. The role of leaders and management in enabling innovation.

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – The Voice of the Employees: Bringing Employee Ownership to Life

Day One - 16.11.2021 The Voice of the Employees: Bringing Employee Ownership to Life 15:30 - 16:10 This session sees Angela Brown - Childbase, Jake Hallatt - Gripple, and Mike Blamires - Answer Digital sitting down for a panel discussion on their experiences as employee owners, sharing how becoming employee owners has brought new opportunities as well as new challenges. You will learn: How they have made the most of being employee owners The positives and challenges of being an employee owner How the pandemic highlighted the need to innovate.

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Internal Communications for an employee owned business

Day One - 16.11.2021 Internal Communications for an employee owned business 15:30 - 16:10 Derek Oliver, Managing Director of Caledonia Social Care will share insights into how they have worked hard to engage employee owners in their business strategy. Coupled with regular effective internal communications, they’re making sure people feel connected, motivated, valued and have a strong influence in how the company develops. David Osborne, Managing Director of Catalyst Choices will share their approach to improving leadership communications. Known as 'The Catalyst Way', the 10 week training programme was designed to bring the company's ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Embedding ESG; hear LUC’s story

Day One - 16.11.2021 How being employee owned has accelerated LUC’s authentic approach to ESG 15:30 - 16:10 Thinking and acting on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) responsibilities in a proactive way has become even more pressing. For LUC, it's become core to business activities and is aligned to their culture and values. Hear from Jon Grantham, Managing Director and Lucy Wallwork, Senior Planner. on how LUC have embedded ESG in their business. You will learn: How LUC’s ESG agenda is driven by the values of the employee owners The impact of effective employee engagement in order deliver the agenda Lessons ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Measuring Social Impact

Day One - 16.11.2021 Measuring social impact 14:15 - 14:55 The social impact of a business is easy to identify but difficult to measure, however understanding the effects a company has on society is vital to achieving sustainability. Now more than ever we must be able to showcase the remarkable social benefits employee ownership can bring, for individuals, businesses, the economy and our wider society. Hear from Lucy Flower, Communications and Social Business Lead at City Health Care Partnership and Naomi Burl, Practice Manager at Planit-IE on their different experiences of measuring social impact. You will learn: What is Social ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – How should reward strategies be adapted post-Covid?

Day One - 16.11.2021 14:15 - 14:55 How should reward strategies be adapted post-Covid? Hear from HLM Architects, AJ100 Employer of the Year. “We know that a feeling of belonging and sense of reward can be achieved or indeed eroded in so many ways. At its most basic, reward has been about pay structures and progression and for many years we have seen packages slowly evolve to include a whole host of innovative, tangible extras; but what about the intangible. Time and energy is scarce and can either be on our side or take us to the edge of burnout. That is where we should focus our attention.” Those are the words of Karen Mosley, Managing ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Financial Freedom: What to do with the profit now the debt has been paid

Day One - 16.11.2021 13:00 - 13:40 Financial Freedom: What to do with the profit now the debt has been paid Potentially we have all this cash; who decides on how it is used and who gets what amount? Hear from Emma Thomas, HR Manager at Aber Instruments and Fred Bowden Managing Director of Woollard & Henry, two employee-owned businesses with different approaches to managing profit.

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – Engaging employees in Sustainable Development Goals; WAVE Refrigeration’s story

Day Three - 18.11.2021 15:30 - 16:10 Engaging employees in Sustainable Development Goals; WAVE Refrigeration's story Join EOA members Wave Refrigeration for a case study presentation and Q&A where they'll be sharing how they have engaged employee owners to become committed to achieving the advancement of their sustainable development goals (SDGs), aligned to the goals set by the United Nations General Assembly. It is an approach that has helped secure their position as Investors in People Awards 2021 finalists in the Employee Engagement of the Year category You will hear from James Bailey, Founder and Ellie Clare, Operations Manager on ...

EOA Annual Conference 2021 – 3 Star accreditation and a Sunday Times Best Company to Work For; hear UMi’s story

Day One - 16.11.2021 13:00 - 13:40 3 Star accreditation and a Sunday Times Best Company to Work For; hear UMi’s story In May 2021, UMi was awarded the maximum of three-star accreditation for the second time - reserved only for those employers considered to be 'world class'. Join EOA members Nicki Clark, Chief Executive Officer of UMi for a case study presentation and Q&A where she will dig into how being employee owned help to achieve a 3* Award for Workplace Engagement and became a Sunday Times Best Company to Work For. You will learn: How UMi achieved three-star Best Companies accreditation for workplace engagement and placed ...

EOA Conference 2021 – We are employee owned, now what?

Day Two - 17.11.2021 We are employee owned, now what? 13:00 - 13:40 This session will delve into how you can make the most of being employee owned, the impact of employees taking ownership and accountability for the business, and how your new employee owners can help to shape the future of the business. Join Kingsley James, Executive Director and Samantha Trillwood, Senior Consultant and Member of the Employee Board at Emperor, for a case study presentation and Q&A session where they answer "We are employee owned, now what?" You will gain insights into: • making the most of being employee owned. • creating & implementing ...

EOA Conference 2021 – Designing & Delivering the Trust Board

Day One - 16.11.2021 14:15 - 14:55 Designing & Delivering the Trust Board Join leading employee ownership expert Jeremy Gadd, founder of EOA Annual Conference sponsors J Gadd Associates for a panel discussion and Q&A session covering the design and delivery of the Trust Board. You will develop an understanding of how to create an effective Trust Board, how the board should operate and what role the board should play in the business. Jeremy will be joined by two employee owned businesses who will provide real world examples of best practice when it comes to creating a Trust Board, showcasing how the Trust Board should interact with ...

EOA Conference 2021 – Is Employee Ownership Feasible for Your Business?

Day One - 16.11.2021 13:00 - 13:40 Is Employee Ownership Feasible for Your Business? Join Robert Postlethwaite, one of the UK's leading employee ownership experts and founder of Postlethwaite, and the EOA Annual Conference 2021 headline sponsor, for a case study presentation and live Q&A aimed at explorers of employee ownership looking to answer the question "Is employee ownership right for my business?" You'll hear expert advice from Robert who give an understanding of the considerations for deciding if employee ownership is right for your business. He will be joined by an employee owned business that has recently made the transit...