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Anchor the Purpose Orientation of Your Company

How do you safeguard your vision and your company’s mission in the long term? Even when you are no longer actively involved? Who has the ultimate control? And what pressures does that ownership structure create over time?
Language: Dutch

Contact Person

Adrienne Nizet

adrienne.nizet@theshift.be

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Date

12/11/2026
16:00 - 18:00

Location

Elements Showroom (The Barn), Boerenlegerstraat 236, Edegem

What to expect?

Ownership is never neutral. It always follows a certain logic, often implicit. In traditional models of ownership, power derives from capital or inheritance.

Steward Ownership introduces a third logic: responsibility based on competence and commitment. It redefines ownership from a right to possess to a responsibility to act as a steward. The model is built around two core principles:

The company’s mission-driven focus is central. Profit is a means, not an end in itself.

Control always remains in the hands of the stewards.

It is a rapidly growing movement with pioneers such as Patagonia, Bosch, Ecosia, Carlsberg and numerous other impact-driven companies. Steward Ownership offers a way to link a sustainable value proposition with an ownership structure that safeguards the mission in the long term. By design.

At this event, you can discover how the principles of Steward Ownership can benefit your business in the future:

You’ll gain a better understanding of how ownership structures influence a company’s long-term objectives, governance and resilience

You’ll discover the impact of this model through inspiring testimonials directly from the community

You’ll network with peers over drinks

Programme

You can look forward to inspiring talks, testimonials from the community, fascinating discussions and networking over drinks afterwards.

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Who is this for?

For entrepreneurs, directors, investors and professionals who wish to contribute to a value-driven and future-proof economy through an alternative ownership structure

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