Special Topics Webinars

We host free webinars offered by co-operative sector leaders on special topics in business, management, governance, economics and social movements.

Upcoming Webinars

We are currently planning for winter 2024 so if you would like to share your ideas,  we welcome new speakers and topics! Please reach out to cme@smu.ca to explore further.

Enjoy Our Webinar Recording Library 

• Accelerating Worker Ownership: A Strategy Session on Co-op Development in the Digital Economy and Beyond with researcher-practitioner Emi DoAman Bardia (Platform Cooperativism Consortium), Matt Kendon,  (CoTech, Space4, Outlandish), Tara Merk (Exit to Community Collective), Katie Michels (Start.coop), Ludovica Rogers (UnFound Accelerator), and Jonny Sopotiuk (Union Co-operative Initiative) held June 29, 2023. The event has also served as a launch event for Co-operatives, Work, and the Digital Economy: A Knowledge Synthesis Report, by Greig de Peuter, Gemma de Verteuil, and Salome Machaka, which is freely available here. Find more details on the event and speakers here.
• Co-operatives in the Digital Age: Digital maturity, data and transition with Deborah Moore and Bob Yuill held May 26, 2022
• Isthmus Engineering: A Case Study on Worker Co-op Governance with Ole Olson (worker/member) and Margaret Lund (researcher) held March 1, 2022. Read the case study here.
• Global Research on Environment and Co-ops (ICA-EU Partnership) with Jeffrey Moxom, Simren Singh and Melvin Khabenje held October 18, 2021. Read the Cooperation for the Transition to a Green Economy (2021) report here.
• Digging into the Global Research on Youth and Co-ops with Jeffrey Moxom, Simren Singh and Melvin Khabenje, March 2021
• A Broader History of Co-operation: from Europe to the World with Nazik Beishenaly, February 2021
• How Inter-cooperation Strengthens Co-operatives, Economies, and Communities facilitated by Karen Miner, Cory Munden, Kelly Storie and Colette Lebel and hosted by Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada, February 2021
• Indigenous Rights and Inclusion in Co-operatives with Mary Nirlungayuk, Joanne Stone-Campbell and Lisa Clatney, November 2020
• Indigenous Rights and Inclusion in Co-operatives with Dr. Priscilla Settee & Dr. Isobel Findlay, November 2020
• Passing the Torch - Propelling Co-ops Forward with Erin Hancock, Iva Jankovic, Josh Noble, and Tim Ross hosted by Canada's Emerging Co-operators, Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada, November 2020 
• The Co-operative Advantage with Dr. Daniel Côté, November 2020
• Co-operatives and New Economic Paradigms with Dr. Sonja Novkovic  October 2020
• The Co-operative Model - Its Contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and New Economic Paradigms with Sonja Novkovic, hosted by the ICA Coop Academy #coops4dev), October 2020
• Another Way? How about Business Conversions to Co-operatives with Dr. Marcelo Vieta and Dr. Fiona Duguid hosted Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada, September 2020
• Lessons from Argentina's Worker Recuperated Enterprises: Co-operatives in Times of Crisis with Dr. Marcelo Vieta, May 2020
• Break Free from Our Systems Prison - A Human-Centred Way of Thinking About and Managing Co-operatives with Bob Cannell, April 2020
• Co-operation and the Preston Model: Beyond 'Urban Regeneration' with Julian Manley, March 2020
• Learn What Content Marketing and the Fifth Co-operative Principle have in Common (and how to leverage it) with Michael T. Jackson, March 2020
• Living our Co-op Values: Applying an Intercultural Development Model to Achieve Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion with LaDonna Redmond, February 2020
• What Does Ethical Banking and Finance Look Like? with Goran Jeras, April 2018
• CUSO Wealth Strategies, with Jay Corrado, a peer-to-peer webinar hosted in collaboration with the Co-operative Management Education Alumni and Student Co-operative, February 2018
• Modo Carshare Co-op, with Patrick Nangle and William Azaroff, a peer-to-peer webinar hosted in collaboration with the Co-operative Management Education Alumni and Student Co-operative, January 2018