Make employee ownership work for your business
Leaders, owners and trustees benefit from Telos Partners’ practical support to increase ownership and improve the performance of their business.
Discover the support we offer
We have helped more than 130 businesses to successfully transition and realise the benefits of employee ownership.
Exploring employee ownership
We help you decide if selling your business to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) or choosing another employee ownership model is right for you.
If it is, we can smooth the EOT transition process by: connecting you with trusted legal and financial advisors; shaping your EOT roadmap and planning; and enabling you to successfully transition with your people, customers and suppliers.
Already employee-owned
We help you establish key foundations to nurture the success of your employee ownership.
Our support enables you to strengthen your employee ownership culture and behaviours; integrate employee voice into the planning cycle of your business; and successfully navigate leadership succession with your team.
Business doesn’t stand still – and neither does employee ownership.
We can help your people and employee-owned business prepare for and successfully navigate leadership succession; maintain your culture through uncertainty and change; adapt ownership, governance, leadership and employee voice as your business evolves.
Being employee-owned brings a different level of responsibility.
We enable those in key employee ownership leadership and governance roles to regularly network, discuss common issues and share best practice in a safe online space – through our confidential EO Connect peer support groups (invite-only and free for our clients).
Our consultants Adam and Jeremy discuss our EO transition support
At Telos Partners, we can help
Through our merger with JGA, we enable you to establish the key elements that realise shared ambition and business potential through employee ownership. Working together, we help you to unlock the active ownership that creates – and sustains – your success.
As an employee-owned business, we are also proud of the leading role we have played in the development of the eoa’s framework for Great EO.
Realising your potential through successful EO
There are many reasons businesses choose to become employee-owned (EO) but there’s more to it than a piece of paper.
Ensuring you, your leaders, trustees and teams understand your role in realising employee ownership’s potential takes time, thought and energy to achieve.
Client story – smoothing the transition
What inspires a business to become employee-owned? For the co-founders of an international award-winning animation studio, it was the desire to ensure their legacy and success could continue after they stepped back from their day-to-day responsibilities.
They approached JGA (now merged with Telos Partners) to help create and implement a successful employee ownership transition plan. Our support included the creation – and facilitation – of key EO representative groups and engagement programmes to empower the studio’s co-founders, board members and employees to deliver the new model. The focus was to ensure roles and responsibilities were clearly defined, and to improve two-way communication.
‘It really eased the burden having [your] wealth of knowledge to draw from,’ they recall. ‘We were able to pre-empt (and avoid) common pitfalls and – most importantly – were kept on track throughout, enabling us to move forward quickly and efficiently.
‘Thanks to [your] deep expertise and insight, the whole process was wrapped up within a year of making the announcement to our employees.’
[You] are… great people to work with. [You] helped to get our culture and values aligned to make our employee ownership transition smooth and positive for all. And it was fun having [you] on the journey.’
EO transition support
Founder, employee-owned niche tech supplier
‘[You] were enthusiastic and professional. [You] shortened the EO transition stage for us… and narrowed our focus to identify the actions required to get us through. If I needed [future] advice or intervention, [you] would be my first port of call.’
EO transition support
CEO, employee-owned waste management software company
‘We underestimated the amount of work involved in making our business employee-owned. There was a temptation to not use [your] skills but we could not have done it ourselves.... As a small business, it makes a real difference to have that outside voice advising you.’
EO transition support
Co-founder, employee-owned sales tech company
‘[You] delivered a bespoke day of training for our new EO Trustee Board and it was clear [you’d] thought deeply about what we needed. [You] were precise, attentive and did what we asked [you] to do – and did it really well.’
Building an effective EO Trust Board
MD, employee-owned environmental consultancy
‘We wanted [an Independent Trustee] who had already sat on an EOT Board and knew what was required. Immediately we started working [together], I felt I was in the hands of people who knew what they were doing. [You] delivered maximum results with minimum disruption.’
Independent Trustee resourcing for EO Trust Board
Co-founder and MD of employee-owned tech company
