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Every shared ownership program starts with a decision to do business differently — and that’s a story worth telling. Read about the employee-owners and business leaders showing what’s possible when more workers have a stake in the success they help create. 

Explore original stories, announcements, media coverage, and other updates highlighting Ownership Works and the growing impact of employee ownership.

Featured Stories

Last Year, The Parking Spot Made Every Staff Member an Owner: Here’s One Employee-Owner’s Experience

Once a restaurant owner who felt like a team of one, Area Manager Angelique Ford is now one of 2,000 employee-owners at The Parking Spot. Read her story, and how she's using employee ownership to take her team's owner mindset to the next level.

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Employee Ownership Month 2026: Meet the Leaders Bringing Shared Ownership to Life

What drives leaders to bring shared ownership to their companies? Hear from members of the Ownership Works Coalition about why employee ownership matters to them.

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The people who help build Landscape Workshop now have the chance in the company's success. Hear from employee-owners at Landscape Workshop about what employee ownership means to them.

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At CoolIT Systems, more than 600 employees shared in the value they helped create through the company's employee ownership program, with payouts averaging $240,000.

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CoolIT Systems' 600 employees are reaping the rewards of KKR's $4.75 billion sale of data-center cooling business CoolIT to Ecolab, with average payouts of $240,000.

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Parts Town Unlimited CFO Lori Sherwood shares how she helped build an ownership program that lets every employee share in the company's success, with support from Ownership Works.

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The sale of ISC meant nearly 400 employees would share in the company’s success, with payouts ranging from three to 30 months of annual pay. Watch employee-owners react to the news and hear company leaders reflect on the company’s ownership journey.

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From the U.S. to Poland, Germany, and the U.K., the news was the same: every one of Vomela's 2,100 employees was now an owner, thanks to the company's new employee ownership program. This is what that moment looked like.

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Every leader makes a few decisions that define their career. For the investors and executives in this video, sharing ownership with every employee was one of them, and they call it the best decision they ever made.

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McKinsey partnered with Ownership Works to turn proven ownership principles into a scalable playbook, helping leadership teams build ownership culture, strengthen employee engagement, and support hundreds of companies on their equity journey.

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Preliminary data from Ownership Works shows that employee ownership programs can drive operational improvements by "cracking the code on the ownership mindset.”

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Ownership Works' Anna-Lisa Miller joins Your Work Friends to unpack how broad-based employee ownership turns everyday jobs into real wealth, paying off debt, buying homes, and building an ownership culture that boosts engagement.

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