JGA and Telos – 5 things that link us both
‘Overwhelming – but in a good way’. This was how our MD Jeremy Gadd described the response to last November’s news of JGA’s planned merger with Telos Partners. All in all, it was quite a week.
Now with the process officially under way, here’s 5 things you might not know about Telos and JGA…
Some of JGA’s team enjoy meeting our new Telos colleagues in Windsor
1. We’ve worked together before
It’s how it started. Our paths crossed at Employee Ownership Association events, leading us to collaborate on key projects for the EOA. We now jointly provide two employee ownership (EO) leadership development programmes for them through EO Learn.
But that’s not all.
Last year we jointly supported the EOA’s ‘The Road to Succession’ research by carrying out the separate interviews with founders and successors in EO businesses on which it’s based.
Find out what you need to know about EO leadership succession here.
2. We both serve the employee-owned sector
While JGA specialises in supporting business founder/owners and their teams to realise the benefits of becoming EO, Telos is no stranger to the EO world.
It might have a proportionately smaller number of EO clients but it’s growing, with our merger strengthening the combined value to clients our teams can add.
Plus Telos itself has a direct employee ownership model.
3. We’ve built our teams in similar ways
Telos’s Managing Partner Adam Campbell (left) with Telos’s Alex Bloom and JGA’s Garry Davis
At Telos and JGA, our people make us different – always have done, always will. We’re proud that, individually, each brings something special to the mix.
We’ve also built our teams in similar ways. We both have employees and 'contractors', whose expertise and broader skills we can call upon to support our development as well as the clients we serve.
This mix keeps us open, agile and ensures our conversations have that added spark!
4. We both enjoy working in-person
A packed room at Telos’s session on leadership succession – EOA Conference 2023
It’s no secret that our JGA team loves working face-to-face with clients. The good news is that Telos does too…
Of course, delivering our services in person isn’t always practical or what’s required.
However, it does explain why we enjoyed teaming up at 2023’s Employee Ownership Association Conference in Liverpool – supporting each other’s sessions where we could.
Now we’re excited to start working with more clients together. Watch this space!
5. We both like cake!
JGA’s Katy Perceval gets baking ahead of our 2023 Autumn Update
At least we hope we do…
It might be early days in our merger process, but JGA has already established a clear track record in this area – with several of our team keen bakers of cake, buns and bread.
No pressure, Telos, but we’re looking forward to experiencing your baking skills very soon!
Read about our merger here and get in touch to see how JGA and Telos can support your employee-owned business to grow.