##  [Succession Planning for Southwestern Ontario Businesses](/event/succession-planning-southwestern-ontario-businesses) 

####  Dates 

Oct 29, 2020 3:00:pm - Oct 29, 2020 4:00:pm

 

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The [Community Ownership Collaborative](https://www.inclusiveeconomylondon.ca/community-ownership-collaborative) is a new initiative focused on supporting London and region business owners transition to community or employee-owned enterprises.

Along with our partners [Libro Credit Unio](https://www.libro.ca/)n, the [Ontario Cooperative Association](https://ontario.coop/), and [Lerners LLP](https://www.lerners.ca/), we are pleased to invite you to a Zoom information session to learn more about the power of employee ownership. You will learn:

- How business owners can leave a lasting legacy through employee ownership;
- How business conversions work;
- Current Canadian landscape;
- Available supports to facilitate business transitions.

**Featuring our presenters:**

**Ian Shewan, lawyer,** [**Lerners**](https://www.lerners.ca/lawyers/?lawyersinlondon=on&nameorterm=ian+shewan&experienceorexpertise=)**, and Terry Off, chair, Community Ownership Collaborative—a project of Inclusive Economy London and Region.** The Community Ownership Collaborative of Southwestern Ontario facilitates the conversion of businesses, or components of those businesses, to more inclusive ownership in the form of cooperatives and not-for-profit social enterprises.

**Meg Ronson, project manager,** [**Legacy Leadership Lab**](https://uwaterloo.ca/legacy-leadership-lab/about/people/meg-ronson)**, University of Waterloo.** The purpose of the L3 Community is to assemble and activate a national community of professionals and organizations that will support and advance of the strategy we call Social Acquisitions for Business Recovery (SABR), or the practice of converting a conventional enterprise into a co-operative or social enterprise or another social purpose form in order to revive and sustain it through an unplanned disruption like the COVID-19 crisis or a business succession/ownership transition.

**Hilary Abell, co-founder,** [**Project Equity**](https://project-equity.org/about-us/)**.** Headquartered in San Francisco, Project Equity is a national leader in the movement to harness employee ownership to maintain thriving local business communities, honor selling owners’ legacies, and address income and wealth inequality.

**Be a part of local economic innovation. Join us!**



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