Identifying Critical Roles • 12/06/2025 Ceo succession planning: ensuring a smooth leadership transition
Creating Development Plans • 04/05/2026 The Ready-Now vs Ready-Later Divide: Development Plans That Actually Compress Time
Identifying Critical Roles • 20/07/2026 How a member at large strengthens succession planning for critical board roles Learn how a member at large on a board strengthens succession planning, identifies future leaders, and improves governance through clear responsibilities and voting rights. by Lena Fitzgerald
Identifying Critical Roles • 19/07/2026 How a national executive council secures leadership succession in critical roles Learn how national executive councils can treat succession planning as a strategic mandate, identify critical roles, and build resilient leadership pipelines for stable governance. by Armand Delacroix
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.
Identifying Critical Roles • 10/07/2026 Succession Planning Is Broken at Scale: Why Only 19% of Companies Have a Plan That Works Beyond the C-Suite Learn why succession planning often collapses below the C-suite and how to build an enterprise-wide, data-driven leadership pipeline using tiered governance, talent pools, and clear accountability for managers and boards.
Assessing Current Talent • 06/07/2026 AI-Driven Skills Intelligence for Succession Planning: From Job Titles to Real-Time Capability Signals Learn how AI-driven skills intelligence is transforming succession planning, talent pools, and leadership pipelines, with research-backed statistics, DEI safeguards, and a concrete implementation checklist for HR and business leaders.
Assessing Current Talent • 03/07/2026 Pre-Summer Talent Check: Resetting Your Readiness Ratings Before the H2 Talent Review Cycle Learn how a pre-summer talent readiness reset turns H2 succession planning into a forward-looking, evidence-based process, with practical templates, governance tips, and real-world examples for HR and business leaders.
The Single-Point-of-Failure CEO: Why Boards Need to Measure Key-Person Concentration Risk Identifying Critical Roles • 01/07/2026 The Single-Point-of-Failure CEO: Why Boards Need to Measure Key-Person Concentration Risk Practical guidance for boards on key person risk and succession planning, including a quantifiable key person concentration index, governance practices, and audit-ready evidence linking leadership continuity to business valuation.
Assessing Current Talent • 26/06/2026 Near-Zero Workforce Growth Is Here: What the Federal Reserve Data Means for Your Succession Strategy Discover how near-zero workforce growth makes internal succession planning non-negotiable, and learn practical ways to model demographic risk, assess talent, and build a robust internal leadership pipeline.
Assessing Current Talent • 19/06/2026 Summer Stress-Test: Using Vacation Coverage to Identify Your Real Succession Gaps Learn how to turn summer vacation coverage into a practical succession planning stress test, with acting roles, observation rubrics, and post-season reviews that strengthen your leadership pipeline.
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.
Creating Development Plans • 25/05/2026 Best Buy's Six-Month CEO Handover: How to Design a Transition Timeline That Protects Value Best Buy’s planned CEO handover offers a new benchmark for CEO transition timelines. Learn how boards can design structured succession plans, manage governance risk, and build ready-now CEO pipelines.
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.
Creating Development Plans • 07/05/2026 The 180-Day Ready-Now Development Plan: Twelve Measurable Milestones Learn how a 180 day ready now development plan reduces succession risk, shortens time to readiness, and increases internal leadership appointments with clear milestones, metrics, and HRBP governance. by Lena Fitzgerald
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
Assessing Current Talent • 29/04/2026 Cielo's AI Readiness Model and Why Your Succession Pipeline Needs One Too Learn how to apply Cielo’s nine‑stage AI readiness model to succession planning, build a rigorous talent assessment framework, and use data driven indicators to reduce time to hire and strengthen your leadership pipeline. by Alexandre Duval
Identifying Critical Roles • 28/04/2026 Succession Beats AI as the Top 2026 Board Priority: What It Means for CHROs How the Harvard Law School Forum’s latest data is reshaping board governance succession planning for 2026, with practical scorecard ideas, critical role mapping, and investor-ready governance evidence. by Griffin St. Clair
Communicating the Plan • 27/04/2026 Proxy Season Is Here: What to Put in Your Board Succession Report Learn how to strengthen board succession reports for proxy season, improve CEO and C-suite succession disclosure, align metrics with compensation, and meet rising investor and regulatory expectations. by Griffin St. Clair
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
