Coming to Texas Next Month: The NCEO Fall Forum

An employee ownership conference in... Houston‽‽

In brief:

• The National Center for Employee Ownership is the largest employee ownership advocacy organization in the US. Their annual Fall Forum is in Houston next month.

The background:

• The NCEO has supported the expansion of employee ownership, and in particular employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), since 1981.

• Texas ranks third among states in ESOP ownership, behind California and New York.

• (Meanwhile, the USFWC and DAWI are the NCEO’s counterparts for supporting worker cooperatives, another form of employee ownership.)

What to expect:

The gathering will be mostly about and for companies with ESOPs. But wait there’s more!

• The agenda also features Joe Nussbaum, the former owner of ACP International. ACP is Texas’s only employee ownership trust. Joe was also a panelist at an EO+WD event at SMU in the spring.

• To no one’s surprise, I’m also curious about this session, which sounds suspiciously like workplace democracy:

• Lastly, keep an eye out for an announcement from the Texas Center for Employee Ownership, which may host an event.

  • TXCEO is part of the Employee Ownership Expansion Network, another initiative of NCEO designed to promote all forms of employee ownership.

  • EOX’s executive director Steve Storkan was a guest at our spring event, too.

Go deeper:

• Check out the NCEO Fall Forum agenda here, and register here.