KKR's Pete Stavros on Shared Ownership and CEO Empathy

Pete Stavros, Co-Head of Global Private Equity at KKR, joins Jessica to talk about his work fostering shared employee ownership: reshaping companies so employees have a direct stake in the business itself. They dive deep on what is required to change the beliefs about leaders around shared ownership, the importance of empathy in leadership, and how employee ownership cuts through the thorniest problems of capitalism by creating a culture of accountability, which drives results to allow both employees and business to prosper. About Pete Stavros Pete Stavros joined KKR in 2005 and is Co-Head of Global Private Equity. This includes oversight of assets across Europe, Asia and the Americas and traditional large and mid-cap private equity, core and growth equity. Prior to this role, he served as Co-Head of the Americas Private Equity platform. He is a member of several investment committees at KKR and has also served as Co-Chair of the firm’s global Inclusion and Diversity Council. Prior to becoming Co-Head of Americas Private Equity, Stavros led the Industrials industry team where he pioneered an innovative employee engagement and ownership model. This approach has been successfully implemented at more than 50 KKR companies and has positively impacted more than a hundred thousand employees. Stavros is the Founder and Chairman of Ownership Works, a non-profit focused on building a worker ownership movement globally and enhancing the financial resiliency of the workforce. The goal of Ownership Works is to create more than $20 billion of wealth for working families over the next decade.  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-stavros-1b3a633/ https://www.kkr.com/ Host: Jessica Kriegel Website: jessicakriegel.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jessicakriegel Instagram: @jess_kriegel Culture Partners Website: culturepartners.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/culturepartners