Growing Successors: Effectively Building the Next Generation of Leaders

For many executives, leadership development and succession planning can feel overwhelming and daunting, leading them to avoid it altogether and bank on hiring a carbon copy of themselves. This is a risky approach, but we have a better and simpler program to develop the skills needed for an impactful succession plan while empowering the employee-owners of your organization.

In this session, participants will explore how CEOs, CFOs, and HR leaders can collaboratively build a resilient leadership pipeline that supports business growth, ESOP engagement, and strong leadership competencies. We’ll dive into how to design a leadership development program that increases business knowledge, financial acumen, and ESOP literacy, even as it hones critical leadership skills (strategic thinking, influence, coaching, decision-making) within your current workforce at all levels of the organization.

This leadership development program increases employees' ESOP knowledge, financial acumen, business structure, and leadership skills. Collaboratively, we will identify current skill gaps that your program will address and identify a few experts to support your team's development. Through sharing our program, pitfalls, and successes, you’ll leave empowered with a practical and realistic framework for building up the next generation of leaders across your organization. This program allows employees to start being a leader in their current role while preparing for future growth.

NCEO Publication: Leadership Development and Succession