Rachel Bachmann

Founder of Akiri Consultants, an employee-owned management consulting firm, Rachel has been working for and with employee-owned companies since the age of 16. She was Chair of the board of Employee Ownership Canada from 2022 to 2024. During that time, she was also a member of the Canadian Employee Ownership Coalition, which successfully lobbied for new E.O. legislation that came into effect in 2024. She is now Head of Strategic Initiatives for the Institute for Economic Democracy based in Slovenia, where she is working on policy and research efforts in several European countries as well as at the E.U. level.