As Wisconsin faces a significant wave of business owner retirements over the next decade, often called the "silver tsunami," it is crucial to ensure the continuity and success of these enterprises. This webinar, hosted by WI CEO, will provide valuable strategies and tactics to maintain and grow businesses during this transition period, safeguarding both the companies and their employees. 

Join us to explore various employee ownership models and learn why effective succession planning is the cornerstone of business retention. Whether you're an economic developer looking to modernize your Business Retention and Expansion Program questionnaire, or you're working with an employer in need of succession planning resources, this course provides essential insights and alternatives to simply shutting down.

Attendees will gain knowledge about:  

  • How to include succession planning and employee ownership options in their business retention efforts 
  • Specific questions to ask business owners to prepare them for exiting their businesses 
  • The three main forms of employee ownership and which businesses can fit into each 
  • important resources in Wisconsin to provide business owners considering employee ownership as an exit strategy

Ryan Kauth, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Center for Employee Ownership (WICEO), a state center of The Employee Ownership Expansion Network (EOX) 

Ryan Kauth is a fractional executive, business coach, university lecturer, co-founder, and volunteer. He has additional background in community bank business lending. He is a former WEDA board member and volunteers with Progress Lakeshore, Two Rivers Main Street, ColorBold Business Association, Medicine Fish Corp, BizStarts, WWBIC, SCORE, Business Lending Partners, the Wisconsin chapter of The ESOP Association, FBLA, and Kimberly and Sheboygan South High Schools' INCubatorEdu entrepreneurship classes. He enjoys walking his dog and high school sports. 

WHAT:  WEDA Academy: The Navigator: A Strategies and Tactics Webinar on Retaining Businesses in Your Community Using Succession Planning and Employee Ownership Models

WHEN:  July 22, 2024 - 3pm - 4:30pm

WHERE: Webinar - Teams link will be sent the morning of the Academy.

COST:  WEDA Members $0.00 - Non-Members: $59.00

 

WEDA Academy: The Navigator: A Strategies and Tactics Webinar on Retaining Businesses in Your Community Using Succession Planning and Employee Ownership Models

  • July 22, 2024
  • Webinar