Review of 2024 – our Top 5 moments championing EO
2024 – what a year. Challenging, yes, but exciting too as our merger with Telos Partners continued and we launched our new joint EO (employee ownership) services offer in November.
Plus we marked a double-digit milestone for our business. Here’s our Top 5 of 2024…
1. Celebrating our 10th birthday milestone
Celebrating JGA’s 10th birthday at our ‘breezy’ Spring Conference
It’s official – on 31 January, JGA celebrated being 10 years old! Cue flowers, cake (of course) and a look at the 10 milestones that shaped our journey, after our MD Jeremy Gadd spotted a gap in the market he thought we could fill.
The gap? Supporting employee-owned (EO) businesses to unlock the benefits of employee ownership and so become successfully employee-owned.
That was 2014. Looking back, Jeremy describes JGA’s path as ‘exciting, challenging, exhilarating – the last 10 years have been all three.’
Read about JGA’s journey and what Jeremy’s learned as our founder in our 1oth birthday blog
2. Launching our new joint EO services offer with Telos
JGA and Telos’s Platinum Exhibitor stand at the eoa conference 2024
It’s not every day you get to launch a new joint proposition for clients who are exploring or transitioning to employee ownership (EO) as part of their succession planning and those who are already employee-owned.
So achieving this with Telos Partners in November was a real milestone in the merger of our two businesses which has been under way through 2024.
As Telos’s Alex Bloom says: ‘Our new joint proposition puts the client at the centre of what we do in a way that’s authentic to both Telos and JGA.’
Read about our new joint EO services offer with Telos here and get in touch to find out more.
3. Championing best practice employee ownership through our Connect services
Kathie gets set to host another Trustee Connect session in April
Launched in 2020, Trustee Connect reached more milestones this year with record attendances at our quarterly sessions and a new depth (and quality) of topic shared.
Host Kathie Robb was also delighted to welcome Trustee Connect’s first ever ‘guest speaker’ – Jim Smith, an Independent EOT Board Chair (thanks, Jim!).
Trustee Connect is our confidential online forum for Employee Trustees who want to network, share best practice and explore common challenges together.
Even better, it’s free to our current and previous employee-owned clients – and now to Telos’s EO clients too.
Read about Trustee Connect here and, if you’re a JGA and/or Telos client, look out for the second (invitation-only) Connect service we’ve just created. More on that in 2025…
4. Running our first in-person EO Accelerator workshop
Jeremy finds a wise ‘friend’ at our first EO Accelerator workshop
We love it when a plan comes together and that’s what happened in September when JGA and Telos got our first ever EO Accelerator programme off the ground.
It was a real joy to team up with EO financial and legal experts from Triodos Bank and TLT, and Yogita Johnston from the eoa, to launch the new in-person workshop at Triodos’ Bristol office.
We appreciated the positive feedback we had (plus it gave Jeremy a chance to try out this halo for size).
What is the EO Accelerator? It’s an immersive one-day workshop designed for company founder/owners who want to fast-track their understanding of employee ownership as a succession option.
Read about the EO Accelerator here and look out for our next one in 2025…
5. Platinum exhibiting with Telos at the eoa conference 2024
Our combined team enjoying the Gala Dinner at the eoa conference 2024
Not just the biggest but by far the best one yet – we’re still buzzing from November’s eoa conference in Telford on 26-27 November. It was fab!
Two days packed full of all things ‘employee ownership’ – listening, learning, sharing knowledge, insight and fresh ideas with 800-plus other delegates. All of us sharing a deep commitment to supporting the very best practice EO.
Our combined JGA and Telos team wasn’t just busy welcoming visitors to our Platinum stand.
We also enjoyed delivering three interactive EO workshops on building and maintaining an effective EO culture, EO leadership behaviours and understanding EO governance roles.
Plus a breakout session on leadership succession planning when your business is employee-owned. And supporting the eoa with the launch of the new EOQ tool.
Find out our key eoa conference 2024 takeaways here
Wishing our clients, trusted partners and employee-owned networks a relaxing festive break. JGA and Telos Partners look forward to working with you in 2025…
Want to know how we can support your employee-owned business? Get in touch.