Helping Colorado Businesses Transition to Employee Ownership

Keep your business alive, protect jobs, and build community wealth through employee ownership. The RMEOC helps business owners, workers, and communities create lasting legacies.

Who We Work With

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For Business Owners

Looking to retire or sell? Transition your business to employees and keep your legacy alive.

For Workers

Turn your job into ownership. Learn how employee ownership creates stable jobs and wealth for workers.

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For Community Groups

Explore strategies to establish community-led enterprises, and building communal wealth through employee ownership.

OUR PATH

Steps To Employee Ownership

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Sourcing Solutions

We guide you through various employee ownership models, including Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), worker cooperatives, and more, to identify the optimal fit for your business and employees.

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Implementation

We help you structure the employee-owned entity, devise the logistics of the sale, and refer you to knowledgeable legal and financial advisors along the way to guide and close the deal.

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Education

We help employee owners understand their new roles to get the most out of the transition, and help create an ongoing culture of engagement for a more democratic and participatory workplace.

Featured Initiatives

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Imagine a world where 30% of businesses are employee-owned

According to a Harvard Review Study, “The share of wealth held by the bottom 50% of Americans would more than quadruple, jumping from just 1.4% of the total net worth of Americans to 6.4%.”

That’s why RMEOC is here to promote employee-owned businesses in the Rocky Mountain Region.

Schedule a free consultation to see if employee ownership is right for you.

Drive Change

Support the Drivers Cooperative Colorado

The Drivers Cooperative - Colorado exemplifies transformative change. It’s Ahmed’s story, an immigrant from Morocco who almost cried when he completed the first ride with the coop he had helped build from the ground up. It’s Mohammed’s story, a Sudanese native, who recruited drivers for two years hoping to create better opportunities for fellow drivers. It’s the story of over 500 member-owners, diverse individuals from all corners of the globe, all now calling Colorado home, all united to achieve what they deserve—better pay, dignity, and a say in their work. This isn’t just a ride-share company; it’s a movement built everyday by real people, for real people.

Employee ownership builds stronger businesses, creates better jobs, and helps develop more sustainable and resilient local economies — and it’s a powerful way to address racial and social inequality.

Bill Kirton

FOUNDER

Real Businesses. Real Impact.

Across Colorado, business owners and workers are proving that employee ownership works. From keeping local businesses open to creating fairer jobs, these stories show how RMEOC helps turn challenges into lasting community success.

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How Employee Ownership Helped Flyin’ Miata Preserve Its Culture and Legacy
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This Design Firm Found the Perfect Transition Strategy by Converting to a Worker Cooperative
How Employee Ownership Strengthened This Construction Company’s “Family First” Culture

Ready to get started?

The path to employee ownership starts here.

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