Beyond “Clone” CEO Succession: Developing Today’s Executives for Tomorrow’s CEO roles

Choosing the next CEO is one of the most impactful decisions a board will make, with implications that extend well beyond leadership continuity to strategy execution, stakeholder confidence, and long-term value creation. Effective succession planning, however, goes beyond the CEO role alone. It requires boards to take a broader, enterprise-wide view of leadership—assessing and developing the C-suite and multiple layers of potential successors—while aligning talent decisions with long-term business objectives.

This work demands intentional, multi-year preparation and close coordination between the board and management, yet many organizations approach succession too late—or with an overly narrow focus.

This on-demand webinar with Pearl Meyer and NACD explores how boards—and specifically their compensation committees—can strengthen succession outcomes by defining future-oriented leadership expectations and using executive compensation as a strategic lever to support leadership assessment, development, retention, and long-term organizational resilience.