About this episode

Pete Stavros discusses KKR's approach to scaling employee ownership across numerous companies and its impact on performance.

In part two of our interview series, Pete Stavros shares how KKR has scaled employee ownership to 85 companies and 200,000 frontline workers — and why it can be a powerful performance lever when done right.

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Host: Hugh MacArthur

Guest: Pete Stavros

Topics covered

• employee ownership
• private equity
• performance leverage
• frontline workers
• business scaling

Keywords

• employee ownership
• KKR
• private equity
• business performance
• frontline workers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: KKR

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