Description
In this session from the 2025 Employee Ownership Ideas Forum, we hear five thought leaders discuss their new ideas and fresh takes on the role of employee ownership in our economy and society and what we can do to help it grow.
Speakers
- Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development, Department of Africana Studies, John Jay College, City University of New York
- Tammy Miller, Former Lieutenant Governor, State of North Dakota
- Phil Reeves, Founding Partner, Apis and Heritage
- Jesse Walker, Book Editor, Reason Magazine
- Leslie Wilson, Dean, Wilson College of Business, University of Northern Iowa
Related Resources
- A Bold Path to an Inclusive, Thriving Economy: Employee Ownership (rockefellerfoundation.org)
- Academic Center for Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing | David W. Wilson College of Business
- APIS & HERITAGE | 2025 Skoll Award for Social Innovation
- “Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice,” by Jessica Gordon Nembhard
- From Border States to State House … Tammy Miller – Electrical Trends
- Jesse Walker, Author at Reason.com
About the Employee Ownership Ideas Forum
This video comes from the third Employee Ownership Ideas Forum, hosted by the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program and the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing. Our 2025 forum, “From Workers to Owners,” highlighted how the experience of ownership changes the reality of work for workers. The forum featured companies in a range of business sectors and explored how employee ownership fits their business strategy and approach to business leadership. The particular role employee ownership can play in supporting business success was discussed , and the role institutional investors can play in improving capital access for employee ownership conversions and expansions was also considered.
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