Description
Overview
As the workforce continues to evolve—driven by retirements, skills shortages, hybrid work, and rapid change—organizations can no longer afford to treat succession planning as a once-a-year exercise. Effective succession planning is a strategic priority that ensures leadership continuity, protects institutional knowledge, and prepares organizations for the future.
This webinar provides leaders and HR professionals with practical strategies to build sustainable, future-ready leadership pipelines. Participants will learn how to identify critical roles, assess talent objectively, develop high-potential employees, and align succession planning with business strategy in a changing workforce.
Why you should attend
Many organizations struggle with leadership gaps, unplanned departures, and a lack of ready-now talent. Without a strong succession plan, these challenges can disrupt operations, morale, and long-term growth.
This session helps organizations move from reactive replacement planning to proactive leadership development.
By attending, you will learn how to:
- Reduce risk associated with leadership turnover
- Build a stronger internal talent pipeline
- Align succession planning with future skills and business needs
- Improve engagement and retention of high-potential employees
- Create a repeatable, transparent succession process
Who will benefit
This webinar is ideal for:
- HR Leaders and HR Business Partners
- Talent Management and Organizational Development Professionals
- Executives and Senior Leaders
- Department Heads and Functional Leaders
- Learning & Development Professionals
- Business Owners and Board Members
- Anyone involved in leadership development and workforce planning
Areas covered
- What succession planning really is—and what it is not
- Why traditional succession plans often fail
- Identifying critical roles and leadership risks
- Assessing talent and potential objectively
- Building leadership pipelines in a changing workforce
- Developing high-potential employees for future roles
- Integrating succession planning with performance and development plans
- Managing succession in hybrid and remote environments
- Avoiding bias and increasing fairness in succession decisions
- Measuring success and maintaining momentum
- Best practices and real-world examples of effective succession planning.
Meet your speaker
Amber Vanderburg
Amber Vanderburg is a multi-award winning international businessperson, keynote speaker, author, and founder of the international learning development company, The Pathwayz Group. This global organization has led 800,000+ learners in more than 75 countries in action-focused leadership and team development learning journeys.
Amber’s history in talent development includes acting as the only female, only American, and only blonde football coach for the Adidas Gameday Academy and Paris Saint Germain Academy in Bangalore, India, authoring top-reviewed online learning courses for platforms such as LinkedIn Learning, Lecturio, and PluralSight, and acting as HR Director of Paradigm Shift Leadership. In 2022, she published her ?rst business adventure book “Uniquely Better” about building higher team performance. Vanderburg has a MA in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Oklahoma and is on an ardent journey to ?nd the best ice cream in the world
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