Mirroring the Institute’s Colorado setting—mountain views, outdoor recreation, and mining-town roots—Queenstown, New Zealand, provided the backdrop for the inaugural Aspen Institute New Zealand seminar. In February, business leaders, nonprofit heads, academics, legislators, and Aspen Zealand board members met in Queenstown for “Leadership, Sustainability, and the Good Society,” a textbased exploration led by the Institute’s Todd Breyfogle. With readings ranging from Plato to Janet Frame, the gathering also featured New Zealander and Māori authors and artists. “The seminar taught me that leadership is about staying true to a core set of values,” participant Archie Ritchie said. Aspen Zealand CEO Christine Maiden Sharp said the engagement from top leaders, including Institute Executive Vice President Elliot Gerson and Institute trustee Clare Muñana, was extraordinary. Sharp also noted the seminar’s timeliness: “Its focus on values, reasoned thinking, and leading in difficult times prepared leaders to confront challenges from Covid-19.”
Kiwis in the Lead
Publications Section 4: Strengthening Practices to Improve Job Quality
Tools: Employee Ownership
View tools and resources related to employee ownership.
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Centering Workers in Workforce Development
The Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance collaborates with employers and stakeholders to boost employment, earnings, and equity for local workers.
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Lessons and Leadership To Foster Economic Justice for Illinois Workers
LEP trains workers to promote equity, enforce rights, build unions, develop leaders, ensure workplace safety, and advance economic justice.
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Worker Owned and Worker Driven
While the rideshare apps have increased convenience, they’ve eroded job quality. See how the Drivers’ Cooperative is helping to end exploitative conditions.
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Creating Employee-Owned Businesses That Provide Good Jobs and Succeed
Through employee ownership, The Industrial Commons is building a new Southern working class that erases the inequities of generational poverty.
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Strengthening the Hidden Resilience Workforce
We see the effects of climate change, but we rarely see the people who help to rebuild — and they often lack safe conditions, decent pay, or benefits.
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Advancing a Pro-Worker, Pro-Climate Agenda in Texas
The Texas Climate Jobs Project advances a pro-worker, pro-climate agenda — helping to solve the climate crisis while creating millions of good jobs.
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Organizing and Coalition Building for Structural Change
LAANE, led by Job Quality Fellow Roxana Tynan, is fighting to build an economy rooted in good jobs, thriving communities, and a healthy environment.
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Organizing Unemployed and Underemployed Workers
UWU, led by Job Quality Fellow Neidi Dominguez, engages unemployed/underemployed workers, a population that has not been mobilized at scale since the 1930s.
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How Local Journalism Can Bring Communities Together
MIT Center for Constructive Communication Director Deb Roy explains how the caricatures Republicans and Democrats paint of each other diverge from reality, and the ways local newsrooms can leverage their “trust capital” and emerging technology to promote listening and understanding amid disagreement.