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October 7, 2026

ESOP Association 2026 Northeast Regional Conference

Engaging Employee-Owners in Shaping and Implementing Your Strategy
Linshuang Lu with Brian Lesinski, (EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc., PBC,)

A strategic plan can be a powerful guide for your company—it gives clear direction for what people need to be working towards to support the company’s success. Engaging employee-owners in developing, understanding and implementing your strategic plan can strengthen your ownership culture. Come to this session to learn how to develop, implement and monitor your strategic plan so that everyone in your company works towards its goals.

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Feedback: the Ownership Engine
Jon Sweigart with Mina Almengor (BL Companies)

ESOPs create owners, but everyday workplace experiences shape the trust, initiative, and extra effort that define strong ownership cultures. One of the strongest — and most overlooked — drivers of those behaviors is feedback.

This interactive workshop explores how feedback shapes performance, development, and culture. Using practical models of feedback and performance, participants will assess their own feedback practices and identify ways leaders at every level can use feedback to strengthen ownership behaviors.

Mina Almengor, Director of HR for BL Companies, will share practical examples of how BL integrates feedback into leadership development and everyday management practices.

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Stop Recruiting Directors. Start Building a Board.
Tom Bonner with Mike Rizzo (Admix, Inc.)

Most ESOP companies fill board seats one at a time. A vacancy opens, a name gets floated, the search begins. The result is a set of capable individuals who may not add up to the board the company needs.

We start from the other end. What work must your board do over the next five years, and what experience, judgment, and independence does that demand? We map that gap, then turn to what makes an ESOP board seat different, including the trustee relationship.

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