SU's Whitcomb Among U.S. Delegates at Oxford University Symposium on Employee Ownership
By SU Public Relations
SALISBURY, MD---Dr. Valerie Whitcomb, academic instruction program designer in Salisbury University’s Franklin P. Perdue School and two-time Employee Ownership Foundation and Rutgers University Louis O. Kelso Fellow, represented SU in England as a U.S. delegate at the Oxford University Symposium on Employee Ownership.
The annual event brings together an international class of 100 carefully curated leaders, stakeholders and government decision makers in the field of employee ownership to explore major issues and obstacles to participatory capitalism and employee ownership with the ambition to incubate ideas and policies to advance employee owned business models worldwide.
The invitation-only global gathering’s motivation is to collectively tackle obstacles and nurture pathways to grow employee ownership throughout the world.
She also recently presented “Critical Success Factors of Employee Ownership” at the 2024 Silicon Valley Employee Ownership Symposium, an institute for the study of employee ownership and profit sharing, and participated in the Aspen Institute’s 2024 Employee Ownership Ideas Forum featuring practitioners, finance experts, state government representatives, and leaders from federal government agencies.
Whitcomb’s long-term outreach and education as a practitioner in the field includes published works in the Curriculum Library of Employee Ownership at Rutgers University with Drs. Frank Shipper and Richard Hoffman, SU faculty emeriti; and panel discussions during the Mid-Year Kelso Fellows Workshops.
In 2022 and 2023, she presented her collection of teaching cases at several Fellowship conferences, each of which were published at the Curriculum Library of Employee Ownership (CLEO). Her case “Putting the ‘High Performance’ in Workforce Development,” designed for business students, has been accessed over 250 times.
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