Owners at Work

by Ohio Employee Ownership Center

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Interviews leading experts on issues pertaining to employee ownership including building an ownership culture, management practices, succession planning, economic development, and so much more.

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February 13, 2025

Building Employee Ownership Collaboration

<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW170031837 BCX0"> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW170031837 BCX0"> SUMMARY: </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW170031837 BCX0"> In this episode Chris Cooper sits down with Jim O’Brien founder and current President of Go2Partners, a 100% ESOP Company. We talk about the interesting way in which Go2Partners was founded and funded by the employees themselves, why employee ownership was an attractive choice for him and the founders of the company, and how becoming employee owned impacted the way in which the company was managed and run day-to-day. We also talk about EO-connection a new project that Jim is leading which enables employee-owned companies to connect and purchase goods and services from one another. </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW170031837 BCX0"> Guest INFO (bio): <a class= "Hyperlink SCXW170031837 BCX0" href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/obpartners/" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/in/obpartners/</a> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW170031837 BCX0"> Further Material (links) </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW170031837 BCX0"> Go2Partners Website: <a class="Hyperlink SCXW170031837 BCX0" href= "https://www.go2partners.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">https://www.go2partners.com/</a> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW170031837 BCX0"> EO-Connection Website: <a class="Hyperlink SCXW170031837 BCX0" href="https://www.eo-connection.com/Login" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">https://www.eo-connection.com/Login</a> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW170031837 BCX0"> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW170031837 BCX0"> SUPPORT THE SHOW: We make all episodes of Owners at Work free and never place them behind a paywall. But they take time and money to produce. Consider making a <a class="Hyperlink SCXW170031837 BCX0" href="https://secure2.convio.net/ksu/site/Donation2;jsessionid=00000000.app262a?2440.donation=form1&df_id=2440&NONCE_TOKEN=28DAFAA902A9B3BB79EC490684E0EE16" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><a class= "Hyperlink SCXW170031837 BCX0" href= "https://secure2.convio.net/ksu/site/Donation2;jsessionid=00000000.app262a?2440.donation=form1&df_id=2440&NONCE_TOKEN=28DAFAA902A9B3BB79EC490684E0EE16" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">DONATION</a> today to help keep our work going. </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW170031837 BCX0"> WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU: We are always looking for new employee ownership stories to tell. Please contact us with your story at <a class= "Hyperlink SCXW170031837 BCX0" href="mailto:[email protected]" target= "_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> </div>

September 12, 2024

How Direct Employee Ownership Created the Right Succession Plan, and Company Culture, at Cargas

<div class="SCXW155849632 BCX0"> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW155849632 BCX0"> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW155849632 BCX0"> SUMMARY: One of the exciting happenings in the world of employee ownership today is the proliferation of different models and methods for bringing employees into the ownership of a company. In this episode we discuss the Direct Stock Ownership model that Chip Cargas, Founder of Cargas Systems, implemented at his company. We also discussed where the model took him, and this next stage of his entrepreneurial journey, with the development of the Tandem Center for Shared Business Success, a nonprofit initiative offering pathways for business success through profit sharing and direct employee ownership. We also talk with Nate Scott, current President and CEO of Cargas Systems and discuss his journey from employee, to employee owner, and finally to his role as a leader of the company. Finally we talk with Drew Mousetis, the Executive Director of the Tandem Center and get the scoop from him on his plans to grow employee ownership using the Direct Stock Ownership model. </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW155849632 BCX0"> Further Material </div> <div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW155849632 BCX0"> <ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW155849632 BCX0" role="list"> <li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW155849632 BCX0" role="listitem" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props= "{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"> <a class= "Hyperlink SCXW155849632 BCX0" href="https://www.tandemcenter.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.tandemcenter.org/</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW155849632 BCX0"> <ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW155849632 BCX0" role="list"> <li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW155849632 BCX0" role="listitem" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props= "{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"> https://cargas.com/ </li> </ul> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW155849632 BCX0"> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW155849632 BCX0"> Guest INFO: </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW155849632 BCX0"> Chip Cargas is the Founder & Chair Emeritus at Cargas Systems, an employee-owned software company with nearly 200 employees. They provide software for accounting, operations, sales and marketing. Chip founded the company in 1988 with the purpose of creating a caring environment where people would love to work. He served as CEO from the founding until December 2017, Board Chair until October 2020, and Board Member until March 2022. He was named Chair Emeritus in 2022. Chip continues to nurture the company’s purpose of “Shared Success for employees, customers, owners, partners, and community.” Cargas Systems has earned the following national & regional awards for its values and growth </div> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW155849632 BCX0"> Nate Scott is President and CEO of Cargas Systems, joining in 2005 as a sales consultant. He eventually became manager of the Sales and Marketing team. When Cargas launched a new business unit centered around its proprietary Cargas Energy software, he became VP. During his tenure, the business unit doubled in staff and doubled in revenue. Scott also took advantage of annual career advancement meetings and asked to lead cross-company initiatives. In 2014 he became President, and added CEO four years later. </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW155849632 BCX0"> Drew Mousetis is Executive Director of the Tandem Center for Shared Business Success with a background in business management. Before joining Tandem, Drew was a lead consultant at Cargas, where he embraced the ethos of employee ownership within a dynamic culture of engagement and profit sharing at the employee owned company. Prior to Cargas, Drew was the Director of Finance & Development at The GateHouse. </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW155849632 BCX0"> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW155849632 BCX0"> SUPPORT THE SHOW: We make all episodes of Owners at Work free and never place them behind a paywall. But they take time and money to produce. Consider making a <a class="Hyperlink SCXW155849632 BCX0" href= "https://secure2.convio.net/ksu/site/Donation2;jsessionid=00000000.app262a?2440.donation=form1&df_id=2440&NONCE_TOKEN=28DAFAA902A9B3BB79EC490684E0EE16" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><a class= "Hyperlink SCXW155849632 BCX0" href= "https://secure2.convio.net/ksu/site/Donation2;jsessionid=00000000.app262a?2440.donation=form1&df_id=2440&NONCE_TOKEN=28DAFAA902A9B3BB79EC490684E0EE16" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">DONATION</a> today to help keep our work going. </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW155849632 BCX0"> WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU: We are always looking for new employee ownership stories to tell. Please contact us with your story at <a class= "Hyperlink SCXW155849632 BCX0" href="mailto:[email protected]" target= "_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW155849632 BCX0"> --------------------------------------------------------------------- </div>

August 16, 2024

The State of Sector: Worker Cooperatives

<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0"> Guests: </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0"> Olga Prushinskaya and Jamie Pockrandt, Democracy at Work Institute </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0"> Summary: The second most common form of employee ownership in the United States is the worker cooperative where workers participate in both the financial success and governance of the firms. Today there are over 750 worker cooperatives in the United States, which is triple the amount that existed in 2012. How do we know these numbers? Unlike the number of ESOPs which can be tracked using publicly available data generated by the government, there is no public entity that tracks worker cooperatives. Instead, it has been nonprofit groups that have filled in this gap in knowledge. On this episode I speak with Olga Prushinskaya and Jamie Pockrandt of the Democracy at Work Institute, a national organization committed to worker cooperative development – which includes gather data on worker cooperatives. We talk about their soon to be released State of the Sector report and what it found regarding worker cooperatives as well as other projects they have been working on which aim to better understand the impact that employee ownership is having on workers, companies, and communities. </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0"> Further Material </div> <div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW72559472 BCX0"> <ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW72559472 BCX0" role="list"> <li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0" role="listitem" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="6" data-list-defn-props= "{"335552541":1,"335559683":0,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"> Learn about DAWI’s work here: <a class="Hyperlink SCXW72559472 BCX0" href= "https://institute.coop/" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">https://institute.coop/</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW72559472 BCX0"> <ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW72559472 BCX0" role="list"> <li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0" role="listitem" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="6" data-list-defn-props= "{"335552541":1,"335559683":0,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"> Existing datasets mentioned in the show: <a class="Hyperlink SCXW72559472 BCX0" href="https://institute.coop/core-research" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">https://institute.coop/core-research</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0"> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0"> Guest Info: </div> <div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW72559472 BCX0"> <ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW72559472 BCX0" role="list"> <li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0" role="listitem" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="8" data-list-defn-props= "{"335552541":1,"335559683":0,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"> Jamie Pockrandt, Data Architect, Democracy at Work Institute: </li> </ul> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0"> Email: <a class= "Hyperlink SCXW72559472 BCX0" href= "mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> | Phone: (415) 379-9201 Ext. 19 </div> <div class="ListContainerWrapper SCXW72559472 BCX0"> <ul class="BulletListStyle1 SCXW72559472 BCX0" role="list"> <li class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0" role="listitem" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="8" data-list-defn-props= "{"335552541":1,"335559683":0,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"> Olga Prushinskaya, Metrics and Impact Analyst </li> </ul> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0"> Email: <a class= "Hyperlink SCXW72559472 BCX0" href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> | Phone: (415) 379-9201 Ext. 17 </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0"> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0"> SUPPORT THE SHOW: We make all episodes of Owners at Work free and never place them behind a paywall. But they take time and money to produce. Consider making a <a class="Hyperlink SCXW72559472 BCX0" href= "https://secure2.convio.net/ksu/site/Donation2;jsessionid=00000000.app262a?2440.donation=form1&df_id=2440&NONCE_TOKEN=28DAFAA902A9B3BB79EC490684E0EE16" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><a class= "Hyperlink SCXW72559472 BCX0" href= "https://secure2.convio.net/ksu/site/Donation2;jsessionid=00000000.app262a?2440.donation=form1&df_id=2440&NONCE_TOKEN=28DAFAA902A9B3BB79EC490684E0EE16" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">DONATION</a> today to help keep our work going. </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0"> WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU: We are always looking for new employee ownership stories to tell. Please contact us with your story at <a class="Hyperlink SCXW72559472 BCX0" href= "mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">[email protected]</a> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0"> --------------------------------------------------------------------- </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0"> </div> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW72559472 BCX0"> </div>

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