Sargent: On Track Podcast

In this episode of the Sargent: On Track Podcast, President & CEO Eric Ritchie is joined by Vice President of Finance & CFO Tasha Gardner and Board Chair Herb Sargent in the Flywheel Studio to wrap up National Employee Ownership Month. Herb shares what he has learned since Sargent became employee-owned in 2013, including his advice to stop telling people what the ESOP will mean to them and to focus on what they mean to the ESOP. The group talks about how culture feeds the ESOP and how...

In this episode of the Sargent: On Track Podcast, guest host and Business Development Director Glenn Adams is joined by Cianbro's Corporate Director of Operational Human Resources Dan Coffey and Retirement Benefits and Organizational Development Manager Rachel Ervin in the Flywheel Studio for a special Employee Ownership Month conversation. Cianbro began its transition to employee ownership in 1979, when the founding brothers chose to pass the company on to the people who helped build it. Dan...

In this episode of the Sargent: On Track Podcast, guest host Business Development Director Glenn Adams is joined by Vice President and General Counsel Amy Tardiff and Chief Financial Officer Matt "Matty" Tardiff of J.S. McCarthy Packaging + Print for another National Employee Ownership Month conversation. The sibling pair explain how their Augusta-based family business became 100% employee-owned in 2019, a move with some history behind it. Along the way, they share how employee-owners have dr...

In this episode of the Sargent: On Track Podcast, President & CEO Eric Ritchie is joined remotely by Project Executive Peter Schaaf of Harkins Builders during National Employee Ownership Month. Peter explains how Harkins, founded in 1965 by Thomas Harkins, became an ESOP after former president Blaise Cook, who started with the company as a laborer, set up the plan in 2002 to secure the company's succession and give employees a real path to retirement. Harkins became 100% employee-owned in...

In this episode of the Sargent: On Track Podcast, Business Development Director Glenn Adams guest-hosts and is joined by DeBlois Electric CEO Mitch DeBlois and President Steve Morin in the Flywheel Studio for a conversation about employee ownership, just ahead of Employee Ownership Month in October. Mitch shares how the Lewiston, Maine company grew from a small, mostly residential shop started by his father in 1967 into a commercial electrical contractor of about 80 people. The two walk throu...