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Employee owned businesses deserve great leaders

Baxendale are delighted to announce the launch of a leadership programme, specifically designed for leaders in employee owned businesses.  This is very much a joint venture with Kellogg College's Centre for Mutual and Employee Owned Business based at Oxford University.  Details of the programme can be found here

Leadership is tremendously important in companies owned by their employees.  Indeed, if you look around the employee-owned community, there is a wealth of excellent leaders; Ali Parsa at Circle Health, Chris Parr at Tullis Russell,

Tullis Russell and Inveresk - the difference in ownership.

Yesterday, I met with Eileen Jarrett who chairs the Employee Ownership Board at Tullis Russell Papermakers based in Fife, Scotland.  She was telling me that despite the challenges currently facing the paper industry, Tullis Russell continues to hold its own. 
 

Building the international community of employee ownership

The annual conference of the National Center of Employee Ownership, the prominent members' organisation of co owned businesses in the United States, takes place in Minneapolis on April 20th - 22nd.  Details can be found here. I attended this event last year and it was tremendously stimulating and enjoyable.  The models of employee ownership may differ between the UK and US (and indeed there were Canadian and Australian delegates there last year, too) but essentially the uniting belief is that employee ownership is a better w