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282: Ownership at Work's Campbell McDonald, Part 2


The EsOp Podcast with Bret Keisling: Ownership at Work's Campbell McDonald, Part 2

Part 2. Bret Keisling is joined again by Campbell McDonald, chief executive of Ownership at Work, a UK-based charitable think tank, and a research fellow at the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing. They discuss the interplay between employee ownership and company “best practices;” the international growth of employee ownership; and Campbell gives a shout out to the Oxford Symposium on Employee Ownership, and the work performed by Graeme Nuttall in growing EO internationally.

 

They also discuss board of director differences between EO and non-EO companies, and how many EO boards need to get better equipped on addressing business challenges of their companies. Listeners may want to listen to part 1 of the conversation (Ep. 281) for context before listening to this episode.



... or watch the video below.


 

Episode 282 Show Notes


About Campbell McDonald


Campbell is Chief Executive of independent charitable think tank Ownership at Work which promotes the impact of sharing ownership and participation in the workplace, and recently published ground-breaking new evidence of the social and economic impact of employee ownership (EO) in the UK. Campbell is an independent Trustee Chair at four EO owned businesses and works as a consultant supporting EO Boards and leadership teams before and after transition. He is an Executive Fellow at Rutgers University’s School of Management and Labour Relations’ Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing. Previously Campbell spent two years as a consultant to the Board of the John Lewis Partnership (2008-10), before founding and running a specialist management consultancy (Baxendale Advisory, 2011-18). Recognised by the Financial Times as one of the UK’s highest performing small consultancies, and ranked a Best in the World B Corp, Baxendale delivered EO transitions and was itself 100% employee owned by a Trust.


About Ownership at Work

In their own words via Ownership at Work, Who We Are.


"Launched in 2019, Ownership at Work (OAW) is an independent charitable think tank. 

OAW’s mission is to promote greater understanding of the role industrial democracy and employee ownership can play in the UK economy. We focus on the social and economic impact of sharing meaningful ownership and participation with employees and workers in organisations of all kinds.


We have four strategic objectives: 


1. To generate evidence of the outcomes and impact of employee and worker ownership across economic, social and environmental measures

2. To generate fresh thinking and new ideas based on insights from employee and worker ownership

3. To generate data and insight to support best practice in employee and worker owned organisations

4. To apply insights and ideas to support a fair and inclusive economy in which more individuals have the opportunity to share ownership and participation in their organisations


OAW is a research partner to the Employee Ownership Association and works closely with Co-operatives UK and other organisations interested in promoting understanding of shared ownership models."

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