Meet-up: Anchor the Purpose Orientation of Your Company

Steward Ownership as a succession tool to carry your mission and sustainability forward?

This event is organised by Steward-owned and co-hosted by The Shift, The Belgian B Corp Movement and Chapter Zero.

How do you safeguard your vision and your company's purpose over the long term? Even after your active role comes to an end? While more and more businesses are embracing regenerative strategies and purpose-driven value creation, one essential question often remains untouched:

Who owns the company? And what pressures does that ownership create over time?

When companies face moments of succession, rapid growth, or crisis, conventional ownership structures often create structural pressure towards shareholder primacy and financial gravity, gradually pulling companies away from their original purpose.

Ownership is never neutral. It always follows a particular logic, often implicitly.

In traditional ownership models, power flows from capital or inheritance.
Steward Ownership introduces a third logic: responsibility based on ability and alignment.
It reframes ownership from a right to own into a responsibility to steward.

Steward Ownership is built around a simple idea: What if companies were built around two core principles?

1. The company's purpose is protected. Profit is a means, not an end in itself.
2. Control always remains in the hands of its stewards.

This meet-up invites you to explore how these principles of Steward Ownership could help your company in the future. It is a fast-growing international movement, with pioneers such as Patagonia, Bosch, Ecosia, Carlsberg, and many purpose-driven businesses leading the way.
You will gain a deeper understanding of how ownership structures influence long-term purpose, governance, resilience, and business succession.

Steward Ownership offers a way to align a regenerative value proposition with an ownership structure capable of protecting purpose over time. By design.

Join us for inspiring talks, testimonials from members of our communities, engaging dialogue, and networking over drinks afterwards.

"More than the design of specific products or services, what matters most is the deep design of the organisation itself." — Kate Raworth

Practical information

• November 12  – 4 - 6PM + network drink
• Language: Dutch
• Places are limited — please register in time.
• Location: Elements Showroom (The Barn), Boerenlegerstraat 236, Edegem
  (Distributor of outdoor brands such as Patagonia.)
• Approximately 20 minutes by bike from the railway station.

This event is organised by Steward-owned and co-hosted by The Shift, The Belgian B Corp Movement, and Chapter Zero, and is open to both members and non-members.