Book a session to learn more about employee ownership and converting to a worker cooperative business model.
Are you a business owner thinking about succession planning, moving on from your business and/or the next chapter?
Have you considered employee ownership as a way to pass on your business while trusting it to stay in good hands with the people who know it best?
During this consultation, DAWI will help you understand the details of the employee ownership options, and your feasibility and readiness to explore them further, with actionable next steps.
Get advice on:
The differences between ESOPs, Worker Co-ops, and EOTs.
The current status of your business's profitability and feasibility for a conversion.
Your readiness as an owner to transition the business to the employees.
The readiness of your employees to become owners and governance for the business.
What your role could be post-conversion.
How long a conversion might take and what are the stages.
Finding Subject Matter Expert technical assistance providers and financing options.
Walk-ins welcome, but we suggest booking a slot to guarantee timing.
Meet the expert: Anh-Thu Nguyen
Anh-Thu Nguyen is Director of Strategic Partnerships at Democracy at Work Institute. She leads DAWI’s NYC work through the NYC Council supported Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative, offering consulting, education and technical assistance on worker-ownership. Her work has encompassed international human rights law and policy, social enterprise, and sustainable fashion. She began her career with the UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials and the International Center for Transitional Justice before pivoting to social enterprise. She launched and has consulted on several sustainable brands in the prestige beauty and contemporary fashion spaces, including being on the founding team of MAKE Beauty. She was previously named a 2022-2023 Coro New York Immigrant Civic Leadership Fellow.
About Democracy at Work Institute:
The Democracy at Work Institute (DAWI) is dedicated to building and resourcing worker cooperative businesses at scale throughout the country. Through our Workers to Owners Collaborative, we support businesses and small business services providers to explore worker ownership as a succession strategy and as a means to sustainably build community wealth. Learn more about our work on succession planning at http://www.becomingemployeeowned.org.