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Innovative Leadership

Building a High-Involvement Culture: Your Playbook for Engaging Employee-Owners and Driving a Winning Culture

Monday, April 6, 2026
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
Location: 104
CE: 3

Sponsored By 
CE Type: SHRM
Education Level: For All Levels
“If I could wave a magic wand, I would have every ESOP company make this its playbook.”
– Corey Rosen, Founder, NCEO
Though technology has evolved at hyper speed over the past 100 years, management styles have mostly stayed the same. The higher-ups make the decisions, and the employees grind it out, often without knowing the endgame. In 1983, Jack Stack created a new game: The Great Game of Business.
Get In the Game explains the rules of The Game: To win, you must get everyone at all levels of the business as informed, involved, and engaged as the owner.
In this pre-conference workshop, the authors of Get In the Game will guide you, step-by-step, on how to educate your team about the business, involve them in setting goals, have them hold one another accountable, and stake a claim in the company’s success.
Organizations in every industry around the world have benefited from The Game. Is yours ready?

NCEO Publication: Beyond Engagement: How to Make Your Business an Idea Factory

Learning Objectives:

  1. Learn why "the company is the product" and how to build a business made up of people who think, act, and feel like owners.
  2. Discover the 10 steps required to bring about rapid financial results and cultural change.
  3. Discover how improved business and financial literacy among your employee-owners can drive overall improvement.