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CommunicationInterpersonal & team skills

Change Management Playbook: a 30-day framework for the shop floor
Paper · 30 min read; 30-day rollout · Zinata
Helps managers whose changes stall on the shop floor build belief and daily habits in 30 days, starting with the respected skeptics.
Empowered Owners Podcast
Podcast · 30-45 min per episode; 5+ seasons · Empowered Ventures
Helps employee owners hear how people like them think about ownership, through a CEO's interviews with employees at an ESOP-owned group of companies.
Free PowerPoint layout templates: white paper, trifold brochure, page grids
Worksheet / tool · 1-2 hours to produce a first piece · Marketing the Social Good
Helps small teams without a designer produce a clean white paper or brochure explaining their mission, using free PowerPoint templates.
How Profit-Sharing Works in an Employee Ownership Trust
Article · 10 min read · Common Trust
Helps employee owners and leaders in EOT companies understand where the profit-sharing pool comes from, when it's paid, and why it differs from a bonus.
Leadership Book Club: The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Facilitated workshop · 5 sessions of 90 min, every two weeks · Zinata
Helps leaders work on their own defensiveness, candor and responsibility in a five-session book club, with free handouts for running your own.
The Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Leading Organizational Change
Book · Book, about 8 hours · TiER1 Performance
Helps leaders and facilitators run change people can absorb, using brain science on threat, status and belonging at work.

ConflictInterpersonal & team skills

Facilitation for governance bodies: boards, shareholder meetings and committees
Program · Custom engagement · Full Circle Team
Helps owner groups and boards that are stuck or in conflict make decisions together again, with outside facilitation of their governance meetings.

Emotional intelligenceInterpersonal & team skills

Leadership Book Club: The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Facilitated workshop · 5 sessions of 90 min, every two weeks · Zinata
Helps leaders work on their own defensiveness, candor and responsibility in a five-session book club, with free handouts for running your own.
Metamorfosis: leadership program
Program · 6 full days, in person in Barcelona · Full Circle Team
Helps managers moving into a self-managing company rethink how they lead, through a six-day in-person program focused on self-awareness.
The Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Leading Organizational Change
Book · Book, about 8 hours · TiER1 Performance
Helps leaders and facilitators run change people can absorb, using brain science on threat, status and belonging at work.

MeetingsInterpersonal & team skills

Self-Managed Teams for manufacturing
Program · Multi-month engagement with workshops, coaching and daily huddles · Zinata
Helps factory teams fix daily disruptions themselves instead of waiting for managers, with a root-cause and rapid-decision routine and daily huddles.

Team values and agreementsInterpersonal & team skills

Create Your Own Teal Team
Worksheet / tool · 30 min read, then ongoing · The Teal Team
Helps people who want to practise self-management start a small self-organizing team, using the steps The Teal Team followed to form itself.
Founder Spotlight with Brian Derfer: Culture, Values and Purpose
Article · 6 min read · Agile Six
Helps founders and owners see how stated values become daily practice, through a co-founder's account of building Agile Six.
Impact with Love: Building Business for a Better World
Book · Book, about 5-6 hours · TiER1 Performance
Helps owners and leaders build a people-centered company that still performs, using a founder's account of growing an employee-owned B Corp.
Obran Member Guide
Website / collection · 30 min to browse · Obran Cooperative
Helps new worker-owners understand their rights and how a co-op is governed, using a real cooperative's member handbook.

Customer relationshipsLeadership & execution

Case study: customer service recovery at a Canadian pharmaceutical plant
Case example · 10 min read (PDF) · Zinata
Helps operations leaders in a crisis see how prioritizing customers, lean flow and team restructuring turned around a failing plant in six months.
Prodacity Talks (video archive)
Video · 20-40 min per talk · Rise8
Helps leaders running large-organization change learn from practitioners' talks on putting users first and shipping working software.
With, Not For: Nonprofits and Client-Centered Design
Article · 15 min read · Marketing the Social Good
Helps teams that design services for others stop guessing what clients need, with a menu of research methods from surveys to client advisory boards.

DelegationLeadership & execution

Goals and performance metricsLeadership & execution

Case study: customer service recovery at a Canadian pharmaceutical plant
Case example · 10 min read (PDF) · Zinata
Helps operations leaders in a crisis see how prioritizing customers, lean flow and team restructuring turned around a failing plant in six months.
Change Management Playbook: a 30-day framework for the shop floor
Paper · 30 min read; 30-day rollout · Zinata
Helps managers whose changes stall on the shop floor build belief and daily habits in 30 days, starting with the respected skeptics.
Clegg Auto: Driving Growth with Employee Ownership
Case example · 10 min read · Common Trust
Helps owners and managers see what an EOT looks like in a small service business: deal structure, shop-level profit sharing, and first-year results at Clegg Auto.
Mission O/S
Online course · 16 episodes, released every other week · Rise8
Helps leaders inside large, rule-bound organizations stop fighting the system and ship outcomes, via a free 16-episode video course from Rise8's founder.
Orchid Health 2025 Community Impact Report
Case example · 20 min read · Orchid Health
Helps leaders see how a small clinic network reports results to its community, including staff retention and engagement alongside patient care.
Utah County auto shop's unique business model (KSL News)
Case example · 8 min read · Clegg Automotive
Helps owners weighing an employee ownership trust see one repair shop's results: profit sharing grew tenfold without raising prices.

StrategyLeadership & execution

2025 Employee Ownership Capital Roadmap
Paper · 1-2 hour read · Ownership Capital Lab
Helps investors, funders and EO advocates see how employee ownership could be financed at scale, and what each of them can do about it.
Case study: customer service recovery at a Canadian pharmaceutical plant
Case example · 10 min read (PDF) · Zinata
Helps operations leaders in a crisis see how prioritizing customers, lean flow and team restructuring turned around a failing plant in six months.
EO Capital Roadmap Launch Event (recording)
Video · About 1 hour · Ownership Capital Lab
Helps people new to employee ownership finance get the Roadmap's main ideas in an hour, with practical next steps for investors, fund managers and advocates.
Employee Ownership Investing Course for Foundations
Online course · 4 sessions over 6 weeks · Ownership Capital Lab
Helps foundation staff and philanthropic advisors learn how to invest in employee ownership as a way to close racial and gender wealth gaps.
How to Raise Mission-Aligned Capital (self-study)
Online course · 9-16 hours, self-paced · LIFT Economy
Helps founders raise money without giving away control of their mission, covering security structures, investor fit and power dynamics.
Krisos: A New Kind of Investment, A New Kind of Company
Article · 10 min read · Krisos
Helps owners and investors understand an acquisition model that converts companies to self-management and steward ownership, and its conditions.
Mission O/S
Online course · 16 episodes, released every other week · Rise8
Helps leaders inside large, rule-bound organizations stop fighting the system and ship outcomes, via a free 16-episode video course from Rise8's founder.
Next Economy MBA (live cohort)
Program · 9 months, cohort-based · LIFT Economy
Helps founders and managers of mission-driven businesses learn strategy, finance and shared ownership over nine months with a peer cohort.
Prodacity Talks (video archive)
Video · 20-40 min per talk · Rise8
Helps leaders running large-organization change learn from practitioners' talks on putting users first and shipping working software.
Social CEOs
Program · About 6 months of matching, then a full-time role · Obran Cooperative
Helps experienced executives move into leading a worker-owned company, through Obran's matching and acquisition process.
Succession Planning Toolkit
Worksheet / tool · 1-2 hour read, plus planning time · Project Equity
Helps owners planning an exit compare selling to employees with a third-party sale, with a five-step readiness checklist and a timeline.
The Next Economy MBA (book)
Book · Book, about 8-10 hours · LIFT Economy
Helps founders and owners rethink ownership, finance and strategy for a mission-driven business, from LIFT Economy's MBA course.

Open-book managementOwnership & business literacy

Let's talk about profit sharing, salary balance and transparency (blog #14)
Article · 10 min read (Spanish) · Full Circle Team
Helps owners planning profit sharing or open salaries anticipate the tensions, from client stories about what went wrong and what helped.
No Managers, No Problem? Indaero after 12 months
Case example · 10 min read · Krisos
Helps owners weighing a bossless model see real first-year numbers (revenue, profit, pay, participation) and the problems from an acquired factory.

Ownership mindsetOwnership & business literacy

Clegg Auto: Driving Growth with Employee Ownership
Case example · 10 min read · Common Trust
Helps owners and managers see what an EOT looks like in a small service business: deal structure, shop-level profit sharing, and first-year results at Clegg Auto.
Empowered Owners Podcast
Podcast · 30-45 min per episode; 5+ seasons · Empowered Ventures
Helps employee owners hear how people like them think about ownership, through a CEO's interviews with employees at an ESOP-owned group of companies.
Impact with Love: Building Business for a Better World
Book · Book, about 5-6 hours · TiER1 Performance
Helps owners and leaders build a people-centered company that still performs, using a founder's account of growing an employee-owned B Corp.
Let's talk about profit sharing, salary balance and transparency (blog #14)
Article · 10 min read (Spanish) · Full Circle Team
Helps owners planning profit sharing or open salaries anticipate the tensions, from client stories about what went wrong and what helped.
Metamorfosis: leadership program
Program · 6 full days, in person in Barcelona · Full Circle Team
Helps managers moving into a self-managing company rethink how they lead, through a six-day in-person program focused on self-awareness.
Ownership Stories
Case example · 5-10 min per story · Project Equity
Helps anyone considering employee ownership see how real small businesses made the switch, and what changed for the people working there.
Sixer Spotlight with Sara Quagliaroli: The Power of Self-Management
Article · 5 min read · Agile Six
Helps individual contributors picture growing a career inside a self-managed company, through one employee's account.

Ownership modelsOwnership & business literacy

2025 Employee Ownership Capital Roadmap
Paper · 1-2 hour read · Ownership Capital Lab
Helps investors, funders and EO advocates see how employee ownership could be financed at scale, and what each of them can do about it.
2025 State of the Employee Ownership Fund Marketplace
Paper · 45 min read · Ownership Capital Lab
Helps owners, advisors and investors understand who funds employee ownership deals in the US, how much capital exists and what kinds of funds offer it.
Certified Employee Ownership Advisor (CEOA) program
Online course · Up to 8 hours, self-paced (CPE credit) · Project Equity
Helps advisors who serve business owners learn ESOPs, worker co-ops and EOTs well enough to recommend and support an employee ownership sale.
Clegg Auto: Driving Growth with Employee Ownership
Case example · 10 min read · Common Trust
Helps owners and managers see what an EOT looks like in a small service business: deal structure, shop-level profit sharing, and first-year results at Clegg Auto.
EO Capital Roadmap Launch Event (recording)
Video · About 1 hour · Ownership Capital Lab
Helps people new to employee ownership finance get the Roadmap's main ideas in an hour, with practical next steps for investors, fund managers and advocates.
ESOP vs. EOT: A Comparison Guide
Article · 15 min read · Common Trust
Helps owners and advisors choose between an ESOP and an Employee Ownership Trust by comparing cost, complexity, governance and what employees receive.
Employee Ownership Investing Course for Foundations
Online course · 4 sessions over 6 weeks · Ownership Capital Lab
Helps foundation staff and philanthropic advisors learn how to invest in employee ownership as a way to close racial and gender wealth gaps.
Empowered Owners Podcast
Podcast · 30-45 min per episode; 5+ seasons · Empowered Ventures
Helps employee owners hear how people like them think about ownership, through a CEO's interviews with employees at an ESOP-owned group of companies.
Governing the Commons (blog series)
Website / collection · 31 posts, 5-10 min each · Marketing the Social Good
Helps people running a shared resource or co-owned business think about rules, pricing and who decides, through real commons-governance cases.
How Our ESOP Works
Article · 10 min read · Empowered Ventures
Helps new employee owners understand their ESOP account: how shares get there, how they're valued each year, and how they're paid out.
How Profit-Sharing Works in an Employee Ownership Trust
Article · 10 min read · Common Trust
Helps employee owners and leaders in EOT companies understand where the profit-sharing pool comes from, when it's paid, and why it differs from a bonus.
How to Raise Mission-Aligned Capital (self-study)
Online course · 9-16 hours, self-paced · LIFT Economy
Helps founders raise money without giving away control of their mission, covering security structures, investor fit and power dynamics.
Krisos: A New Kind of Investment, A New Kind of Company
Article · 10 min read · Krisos
Helps owners and investors understand an acquisition model that converts companies to self-management and steward ownership, and its conditions.
Next Economy MBA (live cohort)
Program · 9 months, cohort-based · LIFT Economy
Helps founders and managers of mission-driven businesses learn strategy, finance and shared ownership over nine months with a peer cohort.
Next Economy Now (podcast)
Podcast · About 1 hour per episode · LIFT Economy
Helps anyone curious about worker co-ops and shared ownership hear from people running them, through interviews on LIFT's podcast.
Obran Member Guide
Website / collection · 30 min to browse · Obran Cooperative
Helps new worker-owners understand their rights and how a co-op is governed, using a real cooperative's member handbook.
Ownership Stories
Case example · 5-10 min per story · Project Equity
Helps anyone considering employee ownership see how real small businesses made the switch, and what changed for the people working there.
PowerShift agreement templates (Ratification Agreement, Operating Agreement)
Worksheet / tool · Several hours with legal counsel · encode.org
Helps owners make self-management legally binding by adopting a governance constitution through a ratification or operating agreement.
Secure Your Legacy: selling your business to its workers
Program · Months; starts with a conversation · Obran Cooperative
Helps retiring owners sell their company in a way that keeps it local and turns employees into owners.
Social CEOs
Program · About 6 months of matching, then a full-time role · Obran Cooperative
Helps experienced executives move into leading a worker-owned company, through Obran's matching and acquisition process.
Succession Planning Toolkit
Worksheet / tool · 1-2 hour read, plus planning time · Project Equity
Helps owners planning an exit compare selling to employees with a third-party sale, with a five-step readiness checklist and a timeline.
The 2026 EOT Playbook
Paper · 1-2 hour read · Common Trust
Helps business owners weighing succession understand how an Employee Ownership Trust works, how it compares to an ESOP or co-op, and what to do after closing.
The Bucket List: 200+ workplace pioneers
Website / collection · Browse; each profile 5-15 min · Corporate Rebels
Helps leaders and facilitators find a real company like theirs that already runs without bosses, from a searchable list of 200+ visited pioneers.
The Next Economy MBA (book)
Book · Book, about 8-10 hours · LIFT Economy
Helps founders and owners rethink ownership, finance and strategy for a mission-driven business, from LIFT Economy's MBA course.
TiER1 Is 100% Employee Owned
Case example · 5 min read · TiER1 Performance
Helps owners considering an ESOP see how one consulting firm moved from founder to employee ownership and what stayed the same.
Utah County auto shop's unique business model (KSL News)
Case example · 8 min read · Clegg Automotive
Helps owners weighing an employee ownership trust see one repair shop's results: profit sharing grew tenfold without raising prices.
Webinar recording: How We Buy Companies and Transform Them Into a Force for Good
Video · About 1 hour · Krisos
Helps owners considering a sale or transition hear a former owner, a young employee and the transformation lead describe a bossless conversion.
What Is an Employee Ownership Trust? (white paper)
Paper · 30-45 min read · Project Equity
Helps owners and advisors understand employee ownership trusts: how they hold shares for staff, and when they fit better than an ESOP or co-op.

Reading financialsOwnership & business literacy

2025 State of the Employee Ownership Fund Marketplace
Paper · 45 min read · Ownership Capital Lab
Helps owners, advisors and investors understand who funds employee ownership deals in the US, how much capital exists and what kinds of funds offer it.
Certified Employee Ownership Advisor (CEOA) program
Online course · Up to 8 hours, self-paced (CPE credit) · Project Equity
Helps advisors who serve business owners learn ESOPs, worker co-ops and EOTs well enough to recommend and support an employee ownership sale.
How Our ESOP Works
Article · 10 min read · Empowered Ventures
Helps new employee owners understand their ESOP account: how shares get there, how they're valued each year, and how they're paid out.
How Profit-Sharing Works in an Employee Ownership Trust
Article · 10 min read · Common Trust
Helps employee owners and leaders in EOT companies understand where the profit-sharing pool comes from, when it's paid, and why it differs from a bonus.
How to Raise Mission-Aligned Capital (self-study)
Online course · 9-16 hours, self-paced · LIFT Economy
Helps founders raise money without giving away control of their mission, covering security structures, investor fit and power dynamics.
Next Economy MBA (live cohort)
Program · 9 months, cohort-based · LIFT Economy
Helps founders and managers of mission-driven businesses learn strategy, finance and shared ownership over nine months with a peer cohort.

Coaching and feedbackSelf-management curriculum

Leadership Book Club: The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Facilitated workshop · 5 sessions of 90 min, every two weeks · Zinata
Helps leaders work on their own defensiveness, candor and responsibility in a five-session book club, with free handouts for running your own.
Metamorfosis: leadership program
Program · 6 full days, in person in Barcelona · Full Circle Team
Helps managers moving into a self-managing company rethink how they lead, through a six-day in-person program focused on self-awareness.
Unveiling Self-Management at Agile Six
Article · 7 min read · Agile Six
Helps people new to self-management see what it asks of them day to day, in the words of a remote company's staff.

Community and collective governanceSelf-management curriculum

Facilitation for governance bodies: boards, shareholder meetings and committees
Program · Custom engagement · Full Circle Team
Helps owner groups and boards that are stuck or in conflict make decisions together again, with outside facilitation of their governance meetings.
Governing the Commons (blog series)
Website / collection · 31 posts, 5-10 min each · Marketing the Social Good
Helps people running a shared resource or co-owned business think about rules, pricing and who decides, through real commons-governance cases.
Krisos: A New Kind of Investment, A New Kind of Company
Article · 10 min read · Krisos
Helps owners and investors understand an acquisition model that converts companies to self-management and steward ownership, and its conditions.
Next Economy Now (podcast)
Podcast · About 1 hour per episode · LIFT Economy
Helps anyone curious about worker co-ops and shared ownership hear from people running them, through interviews on LIFT's podcast.
Obran Member Guide
Website / collection · 30 min to browse · Obran Cooperative
Helps new worker-owners understand their rights and how a co-op is governed, using a real cooperative's member handbook.
Our Social Nature: The Evolution of Cooperation
Article · 10 min read · Marketing the Social Good
Helps people skeptical of shared ownership see why cooperation is a winning strategy, using evolutionary research and Axelrod's game theory.
PowerShift agreement templates (Ratification Agreement, Operating Agreement)
Worksheet / tool · Several hours with legal counsel · encode.org
Helps owners make self-management legally binding by adopting a governance constitution through a ratification or operating agreement.
Rebel Cells peer network
Program · Ongoing membership; monthly sessions plus an annual meetup · Corporate Rebels
Helps companies partway into self-management solve implementation problems with peers who've done it, through local cells and monthly sessions.
Social CEOs
Program · About 6 months of matching, then a full-time role · Obran Cooperative
Helps experienced executives move into leading a worker-owned company, through Obran's matching and acquisition process.
The 2026 EOT Playbook
Paper · 1-2 hour read · Common Trust
Helps business owners weighing succession understand how an Employee Ownership Trust works, how it compares to an ESOP or co-op, and what to do after closing.
The PowerShift Primer
Article · 30 min read · encode.org
Helps leaders exploring self-management grasp the principles behind a constitution-based governance system before adopting one.
Vermuts Teal
Facilitated workshop · Informal session, about 2 hours · Full Circle Team
Helps owners curious about self-management hear from people already doing it, at an informal meetup before committing to anything.
What Is an Employee Ownership Trust? (white paper)
Paper · 30-45 min read · Project Equity
Helps owners and advisors understand employee ownership trusts: how they hold shares for staff, and when they fit better than an ESOP or co-op.
Why We Forked the Holacracy Constitution
Article · 15 min read · encode.org
Helps practitioners of Holacracy and similar systems see where a written governance constitution needed changing, and why.

Culture of experimentationSelf-management curriculum

Mission O/S
Online course · 16 episodes, released every other week · Rise8
Helps leaders inside large, rule-bound organizations stop fighting the system and ship outcomes, via a free 16-episode video course from Rise8's founder.
Prodacity Talks (video archive)
Video · 20-40 min per talk · Rise8
Helps leaders running large-organization change learn from practitioners' talks on putting users first and shipping working software.
Rebel Cells peer network
Program · Ongoing membership; monthly sessions plus an annual meetup · Corporate Rebels
Helps companies partway into self-management solve implementation problems with peers who've done it, through local cells and monthly sessions.

Decision makingSelf-management curriculum

Facilitation for governance bodies: boards, shareholder meetings and committees
Program · Custom engagement · Full Circle Team
Helps owner groups and boards that are stuck or in conflict make decisions together again, with outside facilitation of their governance meetings.
PowerShift agreement templates (Ratification Agreement, Operating Agreement)
Worksheet / tool · Several hours with legal counsel · encode.org
Helps owners make self-management legally binding by adopting a governance constitution through a ratification or operating agreement.
Self-Managed Teams for manufacturing
Program · Multi-month engagement with workshops, coaching and daily huddles · Zinata
Helps factory teams fix daily disruptions themselves instead of waiting for managers, with a root-cause and rapid-decision routine and daily huddles.
Teal salary model readiness self-diagnostic
Assessment · 20 min · Full Circle Team
Helps owners judge whether now is the right time to let employees help set pay, with a short self-check on risks and readiness.
Unveiling Self-Management at Agile Six
Article · 7 min read · Agile Six
Helps people new to self-management see what it asks of them day to day, in the words of a remote company's staff.
With, Not For: Nonprofits and Client-Centered Design
Article · 15 min read · Marketing the Social Good
Helps teams that design services for others stop guessing what clients need, with a menu of research methods from surveys to client advisory boards.

Hiring, firing and transitionsSelf-management curriculum

Secure Your Legacy: selling your business to its workers
Program · Months; starts with a conversation · Obran Cooperative
Helps retiring owners sell their company in a way that keeps it local and turns employees into owners.
Succession Planning Toolkit
Worksheet / tool · 1-2 hour read, plus planning time · Project Equity
Helps owners planning an exit compare selling to employees with a third-party sale, with a five-step readiness checklist and a timeline.
Teal salary model readiness self-diagnostic
Assessment · 20 min · Full Circle Team
Helps owners judge whether now is the right time to let employees help set pay, with a short self-check on risks and readiness.
The 2026 EOT Playbook
Paper · 1-2 hour read · Common Trust
Helps business owners weighing succession understand how an Employee Ownership Trust works, how it compares to an ESOP or co-op, and what to do after closing.
TiER1 Is 100% Employee Owned
Case example · 5 min read · TiER1 Performance
Helps owners considering an ESOP see how one consulting firm moved from founder to employee ownership and what stayed the same.

Org structure: triangles to circlesSelf-management curriculum

An Introduction to Teal
Video · 15 min · The Teal Team
Helps anyone new to self-management get a first picture of Teal organizations and how they differ from traditional hierarchies, via diagrams and a short video.
Corporate Rebels: Make Work More Fun
Book · Full book; print, e-book or audiobook · Corporate Rebels
Helps anyone curious about self-management see what bossless, purpose-led companies actually do, through stories from 150 workplace pioneers.
No Managers, No Problem? Indaero after 12 months
Case example · 10 min read · Krisos
Helps owners weighing a bossless model see real first-year numbers (revenue, profit, pay, participation) and the problems from an acquired factory.
The Bucket List: 200+ workplace pioneers
Website / collection · Browse; each profile 5-15 min · Corporate Rebels
Helps leaders and facilitators find a real company like theirs that already runs without bosses, from a searchable list of 200+ visited pioneers.
The PowerShift Primer
Article · 30 min read · encode.org
Helps leaders exploring self-management grasp the principles behind a constitution-based governance system before adopting one.
The Teal Landscape Report 2026
Paper · 1 hour read · The Teal Team
Helps leaders and facilitators exploring self-management find real Teal organizations, including large and publicly traded ones, to learn from or partner with.
Webinar recording: How We Buy Companies and Transform Them Into a Force for Good
Video · About 1 hour · Krisos
Helps owners considering a sale or transition hear a former owner, a young employee and the transformation lead describe a bossless conversion.

Psychological safetySelf-management curriculum

Change Management Playbook: a 30-day framework for the shop floor
Paper · 30 min read; 30-day rollout · Zinata
Helps managers whose changes stall on the shop floor build belief and daily habits in 30 days, starting with the respected skeptics.
The Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Leading Organizational Change
Book · Book, about 8 hours · TiER1 Performance
Helps leaders and facilitators run change people can absorb, using brain science on threat, status and belonging at work.
Wellbeing-First Operating Model Fellowship
Program · Cohort program; length not published · Orchid Health
Helps health care leaders redesign their organization around staff wellbeing and caregiver autonomy, using Orchid's rural clinic model.

PurposeSelf-management curriculum

An Introduction to Teal
Video · 15 min · The Teal Team
Helps anyone new to self-management get a first picture of Teal organizations and how they differ from traditional hierarchies, via diagrams and a short video.
Corporate Rebels: Make Work More Fun
Book · Full book; print, e-book or audiobook · Corporate Rebels
Helps anyone curious about self-management see what bossless, purpose-led companies actually do, through stories from 150 workplace pioneers.
Founder Spotlight with Brian Derfer: Culture, Values and Purpose
Article · 6 min read · Agile Six
Helps founders and owners see how stated values become daily practice, through a co-founder's account of building Agile Six.
Free PowerPoint layout templates: white paper, trifold brochure, page grids
Worksheet / tool · 1-2 hours to produce a first piece · Marketing the Social Good
Helps small teams without a designer produce a clean white paper or brochure explaining their mission, using free PowerPoint templates.
Impact with Love: Building Business for a Better World
Book · Book, about 5-6 hours · TiER1 Performance
Helps owners and leaders build a people-centered company that still performs, using a founder's account of growing an employee-owned B Corp.
Orchid Health 2025 Community Impact Report
Case example · 20 min read · Orchid Health
Helps leaders see how a small clinic network reports results to its community, including staff retention and engagement alongside patient care.
Our Social Nature: The Evolution of Cooperation
Article · 10 min read · Marketing the Social Good
Helps people skeptical of shared ownership see why cooperation is a winning strategy, using evolutionary research and Axelrod's game theory.
The 8 Trends: lessons from 200+ self-managed organizations
Article · 30-40 min read · Corporate Rebels
Helps teams get a one-sitting overview of how progressive companies differ, from purpose over profit to transparency, with practices and examples for each.
The Next Economy MBA (book)
Book · Book, about 8-10 hours · LIFT Economy
Helps founders and owners rethink ownership, finance and strategy for a mission-driven business, from LIFT Economy's MBA course.
Utah County auto shop's unique business model (KSL News)
Case example · 8 min read · Clegg Automotive
Helps owners weighing an employee ownership trust see one repair shop's results: profit sharing grew tenfold without raising prices.
Wellbeing-First Operating Model Fellowship
Program · Cohort program; length not published · Orchid Health
Helps health care leaders redesign their organization around staff wellbeing and caregiver autonomy, using Orchid's rural clinic model.

Roles and team chartersSelf-management curriculum

Create Your Own Teal Team
Worksheet / tool · 30 min read, then ongoing · The Teal Team
Helps people who want to practise self-management start a small self-organizing team, using the steps The Teal Team followed to form itself.
Sixer Spotlight with Sara Quagliaroli: The Power of Self-Management
Article · 5 min read · Agile Six
Helps individual contributors picture growing a career inside a self-managed company, through one employee's account.
Why We Forked the Holacracy Constitution
Article · 15 min read · encode.org
Helps practitioners of Holacracy and similar systems see where a written governance constitution needed changing, and why.

Self-management overviewSelf-management curriculum

An Introduction to Teal
Video · 15 min · The Teal Team
Helps anyone new to self-management get a first picture of Teal organizations and how they differ from traditional hierarchies, via diagrams and a short video.
Corporate Rebels: Make Work More Fun
Book · Full book; print, e-book or audiobook · Corporate Rebels
Helps anyone curious about self-management see what bossless, purpose-led companies actually do, through stories from 150 workplace pioneers.
Create Your Own Teal Team
Worksheet / tool · 30 min read, then ongoing · The Teal Team
Helps people who want to practise self-management start a small self-organizing team, using the steps The Teal Team followed to form itself.
No Managers, No Problem? Indaero after 12 months
Case example · 10 min read · Krisos
Helps owners weighing a bossless model see real first-year numbers (revenue, profit, pay, participation) and the problems from an acquired factory.
Rebel Cells peer network
Program · Ongoing membership; monthly sessions plus an annual meetup · Corporate Rebels
Helps companies partway into self-management solve implementation problems with peers who've done it, through local cells and monthly sessions.
Self-Managed Teams for manufacturing
Program · Multi-month engagement with workshops, coaching and daily huddles · Zinata
Helps factory teams fix daily disruptions themselves instead of waiting for managers, with a root-cause and rapid-decision routine and daily huddles.
Sixer Spotlight with Sara Quagliaroli: The Power of Self-Management
Article · 5 min read · Agile Six
Helps individual contributors picture growing a career inside a self-managed company, through one employee's account.
The 8 Trends: lessons from 200+ self-managed organizations
Article · 30-40 min read · Corporate Rebels
Helps teams get a one-sitting overview of how progressive companies differ, from purpose over profit to transparency, with practices and examples for each.
The Bucket List: 200+ workplace pioneers
Website / collection · Browse; each profile 5-15 min · Corporate Rebels
Helps leaders and facilitators find a real company like theirs that already runs without bosses, from a searchable list of 200+ visited pioneers.
The PowerShift Primer
Article · 30 min read · encode.org
Helps leaders exploring self-management grasp the principles behind a constitution-based governance system before adopting one.
The Teal Landscape Report 2026
Paper · 1 hour read · The Teal Team
Helps leaders and facilitators exploring self-management find real Teal organizations, including large and publicly traded ones, to learn from or partner with.
Unveiling Self-Management at Agile Six
Article · 7 min read · Agile Six
Helps people new to self-management see what it asks of them day to day, in the words of a remote company's staff.
Vermuts Teal
Facilitated workshop · Informal session, about 2 hours · Full Circle Team
Helps owners curious about self-management hear from people already doing it, at an informal meetup before committing to anything.
Wellbeing-First Operating Model Fellowship
Program · Cohort program; length not published · Orchid Health
Helps health care leaders redesign their organization around staff wellbeing and caregiver autonomy, using Orchid's rural clinic model.
Why We Forked the Holacracy Constitution
Article · 15 min read · encode.org
Helps practitioners of Holacracy and similar systems see where a written governance constitution needed changing, and why.

TransparencySelf-management curriculum

Let's talk about profit sharing, salary balance and transparency (blog #14)
Article · 10 min read (Spanish) · Full Circle Team
Helps owners planning profit sharing or open salaries anticipate the tensions, from client stories about what went wrong and what helped.
Orchid Health 2025 Community Impact Report
Case example · 20 min read · Orchid Health
Helps leaders see how a small clinic network reports results to its community, including staff retention and engagement alongside patient care.
Teal salary model readiness self-diagnostic
Assessment · 20 min · Full Circle Team
Helps owners judge whether now is the right time to let employees help set pay, with a short self-check on risks and readiness.
The 8 Trends: lessons from 200+ self-managed organizations
Article · 30-40 min read · Corporate Rebels
Helps teams get a one-sitting overview of how progressive companies differ, from purpose over profit to transparency, with practices and examples for each.
Webinar recording: How We Buy Companies and Transform Them Into a Force for Good
Video · About 1 hour · Krisos
Helps owners considering a sale or transition hear a former owner, a young employee and the transformation lead describe a bossless conversion.