It’s hard to describe how exhilarated I feel right now.
The cohort for this Shared Ownership workshop is bringing together some of the most powerful & influential people I’ve met this past decade.
The workshop format integrates insights from some of the most influential experiences and learning spaces I’ve ever been a part of.
The deadline for applications to join us is tomorrow, July 21.
The cohort includes:
- leading shared ownership practitioners (i.e. Molly & Sarah co-founders of The Industrial Commons)
- top influential US cooperative movement leaders (i.e. Doug O’Brien, Paul Hazen, Nathan Schneider)
- investors that are re-shaping the way we think about risk & return as well as impact, legacy & a livable future (i.e. Marco Vangelisti, Essential Knowledge 4 Transition)
- cutting edge community development & community ownership leaders (i.e. Jennifer Bryant, Alison Powers, )
We’re also drawing in:
- young entrepreneurs taking the tools of private equity and applying it tackling the racial wealth gap through employee ownership (i.e. Phil & Todd from Apis & Heritage Capital Partners)
- movement leaders from Zebras Unite, who are countering existing startup and venture capital culture by creating alternatives.
- wise leaders from spiritual & religious traditions who are thinking on time horizons and scale of impact — that most of us are just starting to dream of (Myra Jackson, Sr. Corinne Floreck; Ryan Strode, Fr. Seamus Finn, Elizabeth Garlow)
The workshop brings together frameworks from movement organizing, cooperative economics, finance, leadership science & change-making & what’s at stake in this moment.
The Workshop Format
The format for this Shared Ownership workshop creates space to advance your own project and get feedback from generous peers reflecting back to you what they see.
We introduce frameworks for leadership & movements for change; but flip the traditional format. The vast majority of your time is interacting with peers and/or doing your most important work.
If you’re hungry to know how shared ownership companies work, legal structures, investment vehicles…. We will have prompts and reading lists that will point you towards those resources. However, the focus will be on creating an environment where you can interact with peers — who are some of the top leaders in their respective fields. In other words, the workshop isn’t about what technical knowledge you’ll obtain, but a deeper self-awareness of how the culture changes and what you need to learn next. It’s about how ideas spread and how change happens. We focus on how you can develop what you have to offer for even more transformative impact — because of the relationships & community we’re bringing together in this cohort.
Applications are due, tomorrow, July 21 by midnight.
Workshop runs August 1 through 29, 2020
Details here and here. Q&A video here or here.
Detailed invitation document
My invitation to you
Friends, as we face pandemics and economic crises, we also face an opportunity to do the work that could shape this decade and this century.
I believe you are the kind of leader we need at the center of this work.
Do you believe in yourself enough to take the leap and commit to your most important work?
We’re here for you when you’re ready.
List of Confirmed Workshop Participants
- Doug O’Brien, CEO, National Cooperative Business Association
- Paul Hazen, Executive Director, US Overseas Cooperative Development Council, former CEO, NCBA CLUSA
- Sarah Clark McBroom, Equity Officer at Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
- Sr. Corinne Floreck, former Portfolio Director, Religious Sisters Impact Fund
- Myra Jackson, United Nations Representative, Biosphere consultant
- Ryan Strode, Franciscan Sisters of Mary, formerly Arabella Advisors
- Marco Vangelisti, Impact Investor, Slow Money, EK4T
- Molly Hemstreet, Co-Executive Director, Opportunity Threads, Carolina Textile District
- Kevin Jones, Co-founder SOCAP, Co-founder, Faith+Finance
- Eli Andrews, Accelerate Change
- Fr. Seamus Finn, President, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
- Elias Crim, Solidary Hall, & US Economy of Francesco
- Kyle Johnson, Business Services Collective
- Alison Power, Capital Impact Partners
- Sara Chester, Co-Executive Director, The Industrial Commons
- Dr. Tina Facca-Miess, Inspired Foresight
- Jennifer Bryant, Washington Area Community Investment Fund
- Elizabeth Garlow, Deputy Director, New America’s New Practice Lab
- Phil Reeves, Partner, A&H Capital Partners, Board Member, DC Black Chamber of Commerce
- Todd Leverette, Democracy At Work Institute, Partner, A&H Capital Partners
“As a result of the authenticity and skill of the facilitation, I and every group member were surprised by how quickly we were able to drop into high-trust sharing and collaboration. The amount that we got “figured out” in a short amount of time was remarkable, life changing for many of us, and potentially world transforming.”
~ Sam Hummel, former CEO, Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (Participant in April 2020 Workshop)