News & Stories
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.
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Broad-Based Employee Ownership: When Teams Row Together, Performance Follows, Even in Turbulent Times
As portfolio companies navigate disruption and longer hold periods, AlixPartners and Ownership Works explore how employee ownership can engage the workforce and strengthen value creation.
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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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McKinsey & Company: “From principles to practice: How McKinsey is helping Ownership Works scale employee ownership”
February 12, 2026 - Partner & Company Features, Reports & InsightsMcKinsey 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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Harvard Business Review: “The Management Practices That Make Employee Ownership Pay Off”
February 2, 2026 - News & Media, Reports & InsightsPreliminary 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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Your Work Friends Podcast: “When All Employees Own a Piece of The Upside with Anna-Lisa Miller”
December 9, 2025 - News & MediaOwnership 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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Ownership Works and Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth Announce Partnership to Advance Worker Financial Wellbeing
December 8, 2025 - AnnouncementsOwnership Works and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth are partnering to help companies use worker insights to build stronger financial wellbeing programs.
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The Ownership Advantage: Bringing Shared Ownership to the Middle Market
November 3, 2025 - Partner & Company Features, Reports & InsightsA white paper from Ownership Works and Investcorp's Strategic Capital Group gives middle-market GPs a practical roadmap for bringing shared ownership to their portfolios.
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Ownership Works Launches First International Affiliate in Japan, Marking the Start of a Global Shared Ownership Movement
October 20, 2025 - AnnouncementsOwnership Works launches its first international affiliate in Japan, backed by more than 20 partners ready to take shared ownership global.
Read MoreOwnership Works heads to Japan as the nonprofit works toward its goal of generating $20 billion in worker wealth by 2030 through employee ownership.
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Edge Empowers Employee-Owners with Financial Wellbeing Program
October 8, 2025 - Partner & Company FeaturesOwnership is about more than a stake in the company. It's about having the tools to plan for what comes next. At Edge, a new financial coaching program helps employees turn big goals into real steps forward.
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Japanese Software Provider Yayoi Launches Broad-Based Ownership Program
September 2, 2025 - Partner & Company FeaturesBe Open. Be Challenging. Be Professional. When Yayoi unveiled its new values, it paired them with a new promise: its employees would share in the company's success as owners through a new broad-based employee ownership program. Hear what that moment meant to the new employee-owners of Yayoi.
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Bushu Pharma Celebrates Milestone Broad-Based Company Ownership Program
September 2, 2025 - Partner & Company FeaturesFor the first time, every employee at Bushu Pharma is an owner. The moment was a first for Japan too: no company in the country backed by a private financial sponsor had extended ownership to all of its employees before. Hear what it means to the people living it.
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