1-15-25 How to Develop a Leadership Succession Plan

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Includes a Live Web Event on 01/15/2025 at 3:00 PM (EST)

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A comprehensive transition plan is a hallmark of a well-led, well-managed organization that is focused on its mission and the best interests of its staff, volunteers and community. 

Learn how to create and maintain an effective succession plan from Gary LaBranche, the author of The Association CEO Succession Toolkit, the first published book focused solely on planning for, managing through and completing an association CEO transition and succession -- and the book The Association's CEO, Jim Tedford, used when he wrote his own succession plan. 

Learning Objectives

Following this webinar, participants will be able to:

  • List some of the historical and trend data about leader tenure, transition, and search
  • Outline three types of transitions and six common transition scenarios
  • Discuss key elements of a Transition and Continuity Plan
  • Summarize the roles of an organization’s staff, board, general counsel, auditors, insurance agents, and others play in the transition process
  • Describe the relationship of succession to strategy

This webinar is especially intended for CEOs, board members, and HR leadership who need to understand how to develop and maintain a transition and continuity plan.

This webinar has been pre-approved for:

  • 1 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credit
  • 1 NACA CE
  • 1 CE towards ACO CE requirements per Ch. 829 of the Texas Health and Safety Code by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS)

Gary LaBranche, FASAE, CAE

Author

Gary LaBranche is the author of “The Association CEO Succession Toolkit” published by ASAE in 2018. An association professional for 42 years, Gary is currently CEO of RIMS, the Risk Management Society. Previously, LaBranche has served as CEO for five associations, and he was a senior executive at the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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