I saw an exciting opportunity to create an offering that hadn’t been fully developed. Bear in mind that when I started working in the employee share plan field around 1990 no one would have known what you meant if you said you were a ‘share plan practitioner’. They do now!
The people I work with, the huge variety of work, and the intellectual challenge.
It helps employees to relate with their companies, engage with them and to better understand their dynamics. Importantly, it also means they benefit from the fruits of their labour.
By shouting from the rooftops about its great successes, all too often knowledge of which seems to remain within the industry. I’m thinking of the fantastic BT story, but there are also many, many more.
It’s complexity – in legislation and administration, both perceived and actual.
Coming out of the shadows and into the spotlight. Businesses are aware of employee share plans in a way they just weren’t when I started out in the industry.
Golf
Employee share schemes by David Pett!
Bill Clinton
When I started off as a share plan practitioner, around 1990, I attended a Centre conference – in the south of France I think. That Esop Centre conference was a seminal moment in my career, all the “big guns” of the day were there and they welcomed me into the share plan community.