When a business transitions to employee ownership there will be varying levels knowledge of what that means. People will look to leaders, managers and their role models in the workplace for guidance. What does it mean? What is going to stay the same or change? How are they expected to change?

Role models are not always part of the leadership team, but they will have influence over the engagement that all people make with employee ownership, and they set the tone for what it might now mean to act like an ‘employee owner’.

Role models are therefore very important. But how do you become a role model for employee ownership? What does it mean to be considered a role model? Are there shared characteristics that they all possess and demonstrate?

In our next Employee Owners Knowledge Share we’re joined by a panel of role models: Hayley Russell, Sophie Yarworth and Gav Richards.

Hayley is Marketing Manager and EO Champion Lead at Matrix Booking, an employee-owned business since 2021; Sophie is a Principal Business Change Consultant and previous Employee Trustee at CMC Partnership Consulting, which is approaching their 5-year anniversary of employee ownership; and Gav is the Coaching & Culture Champion at Aber Instruments.

Following the Q&A we will then divide into breakout rooms.

Join us for our informal knowledge share if you are an employee trustee, on an employee council, an employee owner, or from an employee-owned business with a vested interest, question to ask, or best practice to share.

Please RSVP to: Sam Moles at s.moles@stephens-scown.co.uk