KENT, Ohio -- The 26th Annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference is scheduled for April 30. The keynote speaker is Joseph Blasi, of the Robert J. Beyster Professorship of Employee Ownership School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University.
The conference will be held at the Akron/Fairlawn Hilton in Akron. The theme is "Employee Ownership: A Better Way of Doing Business.
Among the topics covered at this year's conference are Fundamentals of Ownership for Employee Owners, Building an Ownership Culture, ESOP Technical Issues, Selling to Your Employees Through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), Cooperatives 101: How to Sell your Company to Your Employees Through an Employee-Owned Cooperative, ABCs of ESOPs for Employee Owners and The ABCs of Employee-Led Buyouts.
Sponsors include SES Advisors, Apple Growth Partners, Crowe Horwath, McDonald Hopkins, Blue Ridge ESOP Associates, ComStock Advisors, ESI, ESOP Economics, ESOP Plus, GBQ Consulting, Kegler Brown Hill & Ritter, Maloney-No9votny LLC, The Menke Group, PTCFO Inc., Reliance Trust, Stout/Risus/Ross and Val Olson Law Firm LLC.
Those who register before April 6 can get the Early Bird Special rate of $125 per person. Thereafter, the cost is $150. For information, call 330 672 3028.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.