Passionate employee owner wins inaugural award
What are you willing to do to connect with your colleagues?
Maybe you start a book club, join the company kickball team, or commit to never having lunch alone. But are you willing to learn a new language?
Congratulations, Lori!
Lori Atone, TVF’s Learning and Development Director, is learning Spanish to better communicate and connect with fellow employee owners. She’s that passionate about her role. But that’s not all. Lori also:
- Integrates principles of ownership into TVF’s learning modules, including how to exercise an ownership mindset in any job
- Communicates the value proposition of employee ownership
- Serves as an integral member of TVF’s employee ownership committee
- Participates as an active board member at the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)
- Shares her wisdom at work (and on the Empowered Owners podcast!)
We at Empowered Ventures created the EV Employee Owner of the Year Award to honor employee owners who embody the essence of an ownership mindset. It’s a celebration of those who improve workflows, impact their business, help others, solve problems, and put the team first. The EOYA recognizes EVers, nominated by their peers, who best represent employee ownership as a mindset, a culture, and a way of life.
Lori lives and breathes the ownership mindset – in her role, with colleagues, as an ambassador for NCEO, and in the community. She has undoubtedly earned the inaugural EOYA and we congratulate her!
We would also like to celebrate the top EOYA nominees from our other companies: Bryn Jones at Paramount Plastics and Kevin Rowan at Firstar Precision. (Our newest company, Benoure Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning, will jump into the competition next year.) Bryn and Kevin are all-in when it comes to championing employee ownership. We congratulate them on the well-deserved recognition and commend them as company leaders.
Congratulations to Paramount’s Bryn Jones (bonus points for showing off the extra hardware) and Firstar’s Kevin Rowan!
We’re so excited to see what the incredible employee owners at TVF, Paramount, Firstar, and Benoure have in store for the coming year. There’s going to be some serious competition for the next EOYA!
Learn more about Lori, or reach out if you’re interested in the power of employee ownership.
