Embedding employee ownership to strengthen your success
Experienced support to help set the foundations of active ownership in your business.
Employee ownership can be a better way of doing business – but only if done well. To realise its full potential requires sound foundations of strong leadership, culture and governance to be in place.
At Telos Partners, we know that the day you become legally employee-owned is just the start.
We help make embedding employee ownership easier for you, your employee owners, your leaders and your trustees.
Why work with us
130+ employee-owned businesses supported
Supportive team with hands-on knowledge of embedding EO governance and culture
Trusted to deliver value by employee owners, leaders and boards
How our help with embedding EO adds value
Using the EO Framework that we developed in partnership with the eoa, we work with you to embed your employee ownership and deliver better business results.
We help you to establish an effective trust board, leadership teams and representative bodies and/or employee voice groups.
Our practical support improves engagement and strengthens your ownership culture. We develop your employee owners to deliver employee ownership’s advantage – both for themselves and for you.
What we help you do
1. Put in place the key foundations that will enable employee ownership success
2. Strengthen your culture and employee ownership behaviours
Our consultants Adam and Alex explore the 'embed' phase of EO – watch the full podcast on our YouTube channel here.
3. Integrate employee voice into the natural planning cycle of your business
4. Successfully navigate leadership succession
How we support owners, leaders and trustees to embed EO
Owners
We coach and mentor exiting owners as their role transitions through the business becoming employee-owned.
We work with your employee owner voice groups to enhance their impact – in collaboration with your leadership and Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) board.
Leaders
We work with the new leader and their team to navigate leadership succession and embed a culture of active and responsible ownership.
We support them to develop purpose and vision; values, mindset and behaviours; and a renewed leadership approach.
Trustees
An effective trust board is key to the sound governance of your business.
We help you to assess and develop a productive working relationship between the trust board, company board and leadership team to enhance its impact and unlock the benefits of being employee-owned.
[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
