Bret Keisling celebrates Alison Lingane and Hilary Abell, recently announced recipients of the prestigious Heinz Awards [www.heinzawards.org] which recognizes outstanding individuals in the economy, arts, and environment. Co-founders of Project Equity [project-equity.org], they were honored for “their leadership in the movement to create better jobs and a fairer economy by advancing employee ownership."

The Heinz Awards were created in 1993 to honor the memory of Senator John Heinz (R. PA). The prestigious award includes a beautiful medallion and $250,000 monetary award. It is not a lifetime achievement award, but rather an honor for those who continue to make a difference in their fields.

Get more information or read the full transcript of this episode on our website at https://www.theesoppodcast.com/post/mini-cast-204-heinz-awards-honors-hilary-abell-and-alison-lingane

Happy Employee Ownership Month from all of us that the EO/EsOp Podcast and EO Podcast Network. To celebrate, we're bringing back this episode that first aired in 2020, all about employee ownership in Colorado and the founding of the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center (RMEOC).

In this episode, Bret Keisling interviewed Dick Peterson and Bill Kirton, co-founders of the RMEOC, and also spoke with Jennifer Briggs on Colorado Governor Jared Polis's efforts to build EO.

The full transcript of this episode, which includes links to all of the topics mentioned, is available on our website at https://www.theesoppodcast.com/post/218-colorado-eo-the-rmeoc-revisited

Bret Keisling is joined by Hypertherm's Jesse Tyler, host of the Owner to Owner podcast, who shares what he learned at The NCEO Fall Forum, including ESOP "quit rates," how staff levels affect ESOP acquisitions, US median retirement savings, and symbiotic leadership.

The annual NCEO Fall Forum [forum.nceo.org] was held in St. Louis from September 26-28, 2022. Jesse particularly highlighted keynote speaker Jack Stack, The National Center for Employee Ownership's Tim Garbinsky and Dallan Guzinski, as well as his own presentation with Jon Sweigart of Praxis Consulting Group on continuous improvement.

Get more information or read the full transcript of this episode on our website at https://www.theesoppodcast.com/post/mini-cast-203-jesse-tyler-at-the-nceo-fall-forum.

Bret Keisling is joined by Sue Crockett, executive director of the Minnesota Center for Employee Ownership [www.mnceo.org], who discusses the founding of MNCEO by the Employee Ownership Expansion Network (EOX), its tri-fold approach to growing employee ownership through business owners, EO professionals, and economic developers, and all the ways they help spread the EO message.

Sue also shares her 30-year career in EO through MNCEO and before that, The ESOP Association, including her position as the first TEA Chapter administrator in history.

Further show notes, and all of our past episodes, are available on our website at https://www.theesoppodcast.com/post/217-sue-crockett-and-the-mnceo

Bret Keisling shares an excerpt from Episode 26 of the "Owner to Owner" podcast with Jesse Tyler, featuring Jon Sweigart of Praxis Consulting Group and Kim Gage of Hypertherm discussing how companies can start a Continuous Improvement program.

Read the transcript or watch the video of this episode on our website at https://www.theesoppodcast.com/post/mini-cast-202-continuous-improvement-from-o2o

The full "Owner to Owner" episode can be found here: https://www.ownertoownerpodcast.com/post/o2o-ep-26-continuous-improvement.

Jon Sweigart also appeared on Episode 216 of The EsOp Podcast, released earlier this week.

Bret Keisling is joined by Jon Sweigart, principal at Praxis Consulting Group [praxiscg.com], who discusses continuous improvement in employee-owned companies, instilling leadership at all levels of a company, and his presentation with Jesse Tyler at The NCEO Fall Forum in September 2022.

Further show notes are available on our website at https://www.theesoppodcast.com/post/216-continuous-improvement-eo-leadership-and-more

As we gear up for Employee Ownership Month, we're sharing an interview on the history of EOM. In this episode, Bret Keisling was joined by Michael Keeling, retired head of The ESOP Association, who shares how Employee Ownership month started with The NCEO and blossomed into the EOM we love today.

The full transcript of this episode, which includes links to all of the topics mentioned, is on our website at https://www.theesoppodcast.com/post/mini-cast-201-michael-keeling-the-origins-of-eom-icymi

Bret Keisling is joined by Corey Rosen, founder of The National Center for Employee Ownership (www.nceo.org) and coauthor (with John Case) of "Ownership: Reinventing Companies, Capitalism, and Who Owns What. " Corey discusses his new book, federal/state EO legislation, collaborations, and why this may be employee ownership's moment.

Corey's latest book officially releases on September 13, 2022. The NCEO is holding a virtual book release party on September 20 which will feature Corey and Michael Quarry of Web Industries who wrote a moving afterword for the book. You can purchase the book now here https://www.ravenbookstore.com/book/9781523000821

Further show notes, and all of our past episodes, are available on our website at https://www.theesoppodcast.com/post/215-corey-rosen-the-nceo-founder-and-coauthor-of-ownership

As we prepare for Season 6 to begin in September, we’re re-sharing some of our favorite episodes from this year.

In this episode, Bret Keisling was joined by Loren Rodgers, Jennifer Briggs, and Victor Aspengren. Each address why they believe that 2021 may be looked at as the year employee ownership began to coalesce into a movement. The reason: historic levels of collaboration.

You can read the full transcript on our website at https://www.theesoppodcast.com/post/mini-cast-200-hope-for-an-eo-movement-revisited

This episode was originally released on October 29, 2021 as "Mini-cast 158: Hope for an EO Movement!"

As we prepare for Season 6 to begin in September, we’re re-sharing some of our favorite episodes from this year.

In this episode, Bret Keisling was joined by Kerry Siggins, CEO of ESOP StoneAge, Inc., for a remarkable discussion on employee ownership, hackers, addiction, servant leadership, and why StoneAge is an incredible place to work.

Further show notes and all of our past episodes are available on our website at https://www.theesoppodcast.com/post/214-icymi-kerry-siggins-ceo-of-stoneage-inc

This episode was originally released on March 1, 2022, as "Episode 188: Kerry Siggins, CEO of StoneAge, Inc."