Creating Engaged, Informed Employee Owners
Employee ownership can bring a tremendous positive impact on performance, but only if employee owners appreciate ownership, understand their role, and know how they can make a difference.
What we can do for you
Make the most of shared ownership
Each of our associates brings a depth of experience in the challenges creating a strong employee-owned business.
We draw upon our field-tested approaches to bring the right service to each client.
We are national leaders in the employee ownership community.
Our featured blog articles
Preserving Human Connections at Equity Engineering Group
“It looked like we were going to kick off a year of talking about our company's core beliefs," says Theresa Riley HR Director for Equity Engineering Group. And then, the pandemic hit. Any hope for face-to-face conversations were dashed. “We had a new reality in which employees would have to transition to nearly 100% remote work.”
Transforming Employees into “CEOs”
Are you communicating and training effectively to make the most of being employee-owned? MyPath faced the challenge of educating more than 2,000 employee owners spread across two states in nine different companies about what it means to be an owner. The human services company’s innovative, successful solution: the creation of a Certified Employee Owner (CEO) education program.
Building Your Ownership Culture When Holding Meetings is a Challenge
Since March, in-person ESOP meetings have been difficult to conduct. Given the current situation, here are two strategies ESOP companies have used successfully with Workplace Development’s help to engage employees as owners. Click here to read the full article.

Our leadership role
We actively support and share our expertise with the community including speaking at the ESOP Association, Gathering of Games, the Ohio Employee Ownership Center, and the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) events. We are committed to enhancing the impact of employee ownership because it sustains great companies, transforms lives, and contributes to a thriving American economy.