VEOC 2024 Conference Recordings
On the last day of May, VEOC held its annual conference at the University of Vermont’s Davis Center in Burlington. The event was a tremendous success with 25 sessions plus a morning keynote address to welcome our 250+ attendees and set the stage for the day.
Our 22nd annual conference attracted a growing audience of Vermonters as well as many from around the Northeast who are learning and teaching about employee ownership: local business owners, employees and employee owners at ESOP companies and worker-owned cooperatives, students and researchers, nonprofit professionals and allied service providers, entrepreneurs, and lenders, lawyers, and accountants aiming to learn how to better meet the needs of employee-owned companies.
We recorded video for the morning plenary as well as for one session from each of the four rounds. Please enjoy and share the videos in this selection as you please. If these topics inspire and interest you, be sure to look out for a date announcement for our 2025 annual conference later this summer! We typically aim to hold our conference in the first week of June, and this will likely hold true for next year.
Melissa Hoover, Director of Special Projects at the Democracy at Work Institute
Presenters: Jesse Tyler, Senior Associate Experience Specialist at Hypertherm; Mike Scanlon, Manager of Workforce Acquisition and Growth at King Arthur Baking Company; Kaitlyn Keenan, Senior Job Cost Engineer at PC Construction; Carolyn Stone, Director of Global Talent Acquisitions & People Operations at Hypertherm; Linda Kronoff, Director of People and Culture at Hallam-ICS.
Presenters: Cindy Turcot, Retired CEO and Corporate Board Member at Gardener’s Supply Company; Brendan Flannelly-King, Finance and Facilities Manager at Real Pickles Cooperative; Jeannine Pendergast, ESOP Client Advisor and Principal at Spinnaker Trust.
Presenters: Rob Brown, Director of Business Ownership Solutions at the Cooperative Development Institute; Elena Kuhn, Production Assistant at Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee; Tyler Sweeney, Administrative Assistant at Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee.
Seth Webber, Business Valuation Consultant at BerryDunn.
