Description
Overview
Executive succession planning is one of the most critical strategic responsibilities of any organization. Leadership transitions—whether planned or unexpected—can significantly impact performance, culture, investor confidence, and long-term growth. Without a deliberate and well-structured succession strategy, organizations risk disruption, instability, and loss of institutional knowledge.
This webinar provides senior leaders, board members, and HR executives with a strategic framework for building strong executive leadership pipelines. Participants will learn how to identify high-potential leaders, assess readiness objectively, and create development pathways that ensure leadership continuity and organizational resilience.
Why you should attend
Executive turnover—planned or sudden—can create operational and strategic risk. A proactive succession plan strengthens stability, protects stakeholder confidence, and ensures long-term success.
This session provides practical, board-level insights into building a sustainable executive succession strategy.
By attending, you will learn how to:
- Identify critical executive roles and succession risks
- Assess executive readiness and leadership potential
- Develop high-potential leaders for future C-suite roles
- Align succession planning with long-term business strategy
- Reduce disruption during leadership transitions
Who will benefit
This webinar is ideal for:
- CEOs and Senior Executives
- Board Members and Governance Committees
- CHROs and HR Executives
- Talent Management and Organizational Development Leaders
- Business Owners and Founders
- Senior Leaders preparing future executive pipelines
Areas covered
- Why executive succession planning is a strategic priority
- Common gaps and risks in executive succession processes
- Identifying mission-critical leadership roles
- Assessing leadership potential vs. performance
- Building executive readiness and development pathways
- The role of the board in succession planning
- Emergency succession vs. long-term planning
- Managing confidential and sensitive succession discussions
- Diversity, inclusion, and bias considerations in executive pipelines
- Communicating succession plans internally and externally.
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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