Fresh off a Gold Brandon Hall Group Human Capital Management Excellence Award®, Leading in an Ownership Setting™ will soon open registration for its 2027 cohorts, giving ESOP executives a proven, independently recognized, path to sharper leadership. Enrollment is limited.
Leading in an Ownership Setting™
The Employee Ownership Foundation in partnership with the University of Virginia Darden Executive Education and Lifelong Learning
The two-week intensive uses Darden's signature case-method approach to focus on the realities of leading an employee-owned company: valuation, finance, M&A, growth and innovation, disruption, succession planning, governance, legal considerations, and AI and data analysis. Presidents, CEOs, CFOs, senior finance leaders, and their designated successors work through curriculum built specifically around the challenges of leading at the top of an ESOP company, at a moment when those challenges are only getting more complex, as AI and economic change reshape how businesses operate and ESOPs move further into the spotlight with policymakers in Washington.
“The caliber of professors is really top notch. I’ve never been a part of any sort of learning that’s had this level of innovation and also timely challenging subjects, and I think the combination of that and catering towards the employee-owned companies has made this a really unique subject.”
Matt Elhadad, President & CEO
Nelson-Rudie & Associates, Inc.
The curriculum is only half the value. Participants leave with a network of fellow executives who understand the specific pressures of leading an employee-owned company, connecting not just with classmates but with alumni from prior and future cohorts. That network becomes a lasting resource for discussion, brainstorming, and idea sharing long after the two weeks end.
Two separate, stand-alone 2027 cohorts will open for registration, each complete on its own: a President/CEO cohort, running June 20-24 and December 5-9, and a CFO cohort, running July 25-29 and October 17-21. Registration is opening soon.
Learn more at esopleadership.org.
