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Walter P. Paepcke, Aspen Institute Co-Founder
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Five Big Ideas for Employee Ownership
Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.
Join this session to listen in as 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, John Jay College at the 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
Thank you to our colleagues at the Ford Foundation, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Prudential Financial for their generous support of the 2025 Employee Ownership Ideas Forum. Rutgers University also appreciates the support of the Sorenson Impact Foundation for its support of this convening and other events in 2025.
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Join this session to listen in as 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, John Jay College at the 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
Thank you to our colleagues at the Ford Foundation, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Prudential Financial for their generous support of the 2025 Employee Ownership Ideas Forum. Rutgers University also appreciates the support of the Sorenson Impact Foundation for its support of this convening and other events in 2025.
For the benefit of workers, businesses, and our society, we need to build workplace heat safety into our culture, policies, and practices if we are to adapt to our warming planet. Join the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program on Wednesday, July 30, at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time, on Zoom to learn about how the warming climate is affecting workers, and what policymakers, businesses, and labor are doing to keep workers safe. This event is part of EOP’s Opportunity in America conversation series.
“The Future of Equal Opportunity,” will explore the current landscape, emerging challenges, and the strategies needed to protect and strengthen opportunity in the American workplace.
The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program will soon release a report, Fixing Work: Lessons from Job Quality Practitioners, based on in-depth interviews with more than 20 leaders across the country about the work they are doing to create good jobs that provide economic security, the opportunity to advance and grow, and a safe, dignified, and equitable workplace.
Hear from CDFIs about their approaches to building job quality advising into their work, and share your questions and comments. We are eager to hear what you think!
In addition to providing an overview of the nomination and application process, we’re pleased to welcome two Job Quality Fellows to this conversation — Neidi Dominguez Zamorano, founding executive director of Organized Power in Numbers, and Bo Delp, executive director of the Texas Climate Jobs Project — who will share their experience as members of the Fellowship.
