What is Succession Planning? • 12/06/2025 4 stages of succession planning: a roadmap to future leadership
What is Succession Planning? • 19/05/2025 Navigating the Complexities of Korn Ferry's Executive Search for Succession Planning
Key Components • 21/08/2026 FirstCash's Three-Year Chairman Bridge: Why Staged CEO Handovers Outperform Clean Breaks Analysis of FirstCash’s three year executive chairman bridge and why staged CEO handovers can outperform clean breaks when boards enforce clear authority and timelines.
Case Studies • 17/08/2026 Mobileye's Founder Steps Aside After 27 Years: How Boards Search for a Successor When the CEO Built the Company Mobileye’s founder CEO transition shows how boards can run a disciplined search, define a clear success profile, and manage succession planning when the CEO built the company.
Case Studies • 12/08/2026 Popular's Second CEO in 13 Months: How Cascading Promotions Saved a Leadership Crisis Popular’s second CEO in 13 months shows how rapid succession, cascading promotions, and deep benches can protect governance, risk management, and leadership continuity.
Succession Planning vs. Replacement Planning • 10/08/2026 What Cracker Barrel's External CEO Hire Reveals About the Real Cost of Pipeline Gaps Cracker Barrel’s external CEO hire exposes the real cost of weak succession pipelines and shows boards how to turn CEO succession from a scramble into a strategic choice.
Case Studies • 20/07/2026 Truist's First CEO Handover Since Its Merger: What Post-Merger Succession Demands Analysis of Truist’s external CEO appointment of Michael J. Lyons and what it reveals about post‑merger CEO succession planning, board governance, and building a repeatable leadership pipeline.
Key Components • 13/07/2026 How Cigna's 28-Year Insider Pipeline Produced a CEO: The Evanko Transition Model Analysis of Cigna’s executive chair CEO transition model and the Evanko succession plan, with governance lessons for CHROs and boards on de risking CEO succession.
Key Components • 16/06/2026 Workforce Planning Meets Succession: How to Connect Headcount Forecasting to Your Leadership Pipeline Learn how to connect workforce planning with succession planning to protect leadership continuity, close pipeline gaps, and turn headcount forecasts into actionable talent strategy.
Key Components • 12/06/2026 Designing the Executive Chairman Bridge: Transition Structures That Protect Organizational Value Learn how to design an executive chairman bridge, compare transition structures, and build a robust succession plan that protects organizational value and governance.
Succession Planning vs. Replacement Planning • 12/06/2026 The Replacement Trap: Why Most Succession Plans Protect Jobs Instead of Capabilities Why most succession plans protect job titles instead of capabilities, and how CHROs can redesign succession planning capabilities vs roles to safeguard critical skills.
Key Components • 29/05/2026 The Succession Planning Process in 2026: A Step-by-Step Framework That Scales From 500 to 50,000 Employees Learn how to run a modern succession planning process as a continuous cycle, from identifying critical roles to assessing potential, developing future leaders, and managing leadership transitions at scale.
Succession Planning vs. Replacement Planning • 27/05/2026 BP's Board Chose an Industry Outsider to Break the CEO Revolving Door: When External Succession Wins Analysis of BP’s move toward an external CEO, using Meg O’Neill as a case example, and what it teaches boards about CEO succession planning, governance, and when to choose an outside candidate over internal leaders.
Case Studies • 20/05/2026 Spring 2026's CEO Succession Surge: What the Data Says About Building Internal Pipelines That Deliver Explore CEO succession trends for 2026, why internal CEO promotion now dominates, and how boards use structured pipelines, success profiles, and external benchmarking to balance internal and external candidates.
Case Studies • 18/05/2026 What Apple's Cook-to-Ternus Transition Teaches Every Board About 25-Year Pipeline Investments Apple’s long-term CEO succession approach, including John Ternus’s development and Apple’s governance design, offers practical lessons boards, small businesses and nonprofits can adapt to build resilient leadership pipelines.
Key Components • 14/05/2026 The DEI-Succession Integration: Stop Segregating Your Talent Reviews Why CHROs must replace segregated DEI and succession reviews with one integrated, evidence based process that strengthens leadership pipelines, bench strength, and board reporting.
Key Components • 11/05/2026 Mid-Year Pipeline Stress Test: Seven Checks Before Your June Board Packet Use seven mid-year stress tests to keep your succession planning grounded in critical roles, realistic coverage ratios, and board-ready insights, with a practical one-page output.
Importance of Succession Planning • 08/05/2026 M&A Leadership Continuity: Mapping Successors Before the Integration Signs Learn how to turn M&A leadership continuity into a repeatable discipline, with pre-signing leadership mapping, a 1–5 risk matrix, sample retention term sheet elements, and a practical CHRO checklist for succession planning in mergers and acquisitions.
Succession Planning Template: A Four-Layer Stack Your Audit Committee Will Accept Key Components • 07/05/2026 Succession Planning Template: A Four-Layer Stack Your Audit Committee Will Accept Learn how to build a succession planning template that goes beyond a simple grid, with four layers of critical role inventory, successor maps, development plans, and governance, plus sample artifacts, statistics, and a concise case study. by Sofia Martinez
Succession Planning vs. Replacement Planning • 06/05/2026 Emergency CEO Coverage: The 30-Day Playbook Boards Should Have on Hand Practical 30-day emergency CEO succession planning guide for boards, with real data, governance checklists, interim CEO mandate design, and disclosure considerations in US and UK markets. by Lena Fitzgerald
Case Studies • 03/05/2026 Constellation's Fink Handover and the Board-Director-to-CEO Playbook Analysis of Constellation Brands’ board director to CEO succession, the governance trade offs, and safeguards boards need when a director becomes chief executive. by Morgan Thompson
Key Components • 23/04/2026 Stop Calling It a Pipeline: Why Continuous Succession Beats Annual Reviews Evidence-based guide to succession planning best practices in a high-churn leadership market, with benchmarks, governance metrics, and practical guidance for CHROs and boards. by Lena Fitzgerald
