What is Succession Planning? • 12/06/2025 4 stages of succession planning: a roadmap to future leadership
What is Succession Planning? • 12/06/2025 How to Handle Succession Planning for Family-Owned Businesses
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
Case Studies • 21/04/2026 What Dow's Multi-Year Carter Succession Tells You About Pipeline Discipline Use Dow’s March 20, 2024 CEO succession as a benchmark to build audit-ready CEO succession plans, strengthen internal pipelines, and reduce time to fill and transition risk. by Alexandre Duval
What is Succession Planning? • 11/04/2026 How a certificate of personal effectiveness strengthens succession planning for young professionals Learn how a certificate of personal effectiveness builds key skills, supports young people, and strengthens succession planning and professional development strategies. by Darius Nejem
What is Succession Planning? • 10/04/2026 How the industrial relations ordinance shapes succession planning in modern workplaces Explore how the industrial relations ordinance shapes succession planning, collective bargaining, legal risk, and leadership continuity in modern workplaces. by Jean-Luc Moreau
What is Succession Planning? • 10/04/2026 How to define commercial acumen for stronger succession planning Learn how to define commercial acumen for succession planning, assess it in leaders, and embed it in development to strengthen future leadership pipelines. by Morgan Thompson
What is Succession Planning? • 10/04/2026 Thought leadership hiring advantage method for succession planning excellence Learn how a thought leadership hiring advantage method transforms succession planning by aligning content, marketing, and executive strategy to attract and assess leaders. by Darius Nejem
What is Succession Planning? • 10/04/2026 What is a staff appraisal and how it shapes effective succession planning Understand what a staff appraisal is, how performance reviews work, and why they are essential for effective succession planning and leadership development. by Alexandre Duval
What is Succession Planning? • 18/03/2026 How small businesses succeed with employees through thoughtful succession planning Learn how small businesses succeed with employees through practical succession planning, strong culture, and engagement strategies that reduce turnover and build leaders. by Jean-Luc Moreau
Case Studies • 10/03/2026 How a mentor network email strategy strengthens succession planning Learn how a structured mentor network email strategy strengthens succession planning, protects privacy, and turns mentoring data into reliable leadership insights. by Armand Delacroix
What is Succession Planning? • 07/03/2026 Writing a meaningful thank you letter to a mentor who shaped your path Learn how to write a meaningful thank you letter to a mentor, choose the right format, and support strong mentoring cultures that sustain succession planning. by Evangeline Carter
