CEO Succession Planning & Talent Oversight Resource Center
One of the board’s key responsibilities is deciding to replace the CEO and selecting a new leader. This resource center provides guidance and tools that will ease the process of succession planning and ongoing talent oversight. For more information on compensating the CEO, see NACD’s Resource Center on the Compensation Committee.
Events
Virtual Director Professionalism®
The Art of Directorship: CEO Succession
Videos and Webinars
The Role of Talent in Creating a Healthy and Inclusive Culture
Talent Strategies for High-Growth Companies
Oversight of the Global Talent Pipeline
Understand the Links Between Talent, Strategy, and Risk
A Director’s Responsibility to the CEO
Succession Planning Presents Different Challenges For Private vs. Public Company Directors
A New Corporate Responsibility: Shaping Attitudes Toward Work
Four Considerations for Private Company CEO Succession
Considerations for Private Company Total Rewards in Response to the Great Resignation
Talent, Strategy, Risk: How Investors and Boards Are Redefining TSR—an Interview with Ram Charan and Dennis Carey
CEOs: Architects of Prosperity (Egon Zehnder)
Pandemic, Digital, and Talent Concerns Dominate 2021’s Top Risks
Boards Can Protect their Companies by Better Vetting Leadership
The Arc of Leadership
A Three-Level Approach to Better Board Oversight of Talent and Culture
Governance Challenges 2019: CEO Succession Planning
Board Oversight of Human Capital Strategy and Risks
Sample Risk Dashboard for Talent Development and Retention
Identify Key Talent Challenges
Director Essentials: Unionization on the Rise: What Boards Should Know
Five Steps to Making the Search for a New Director More Effective
A First-Hand View: How to Return to Work
War for Talent: Flexibility Creates Strength
The Great Resignation: How Did We Get Here, and What Can Our Companies Do to Adjust?
The Great Resignation and the Employee-Manager Disconnect
CEO Succession Strategies Shift Amid COVID-19, Social Unrest, and Other Disruptions
Business and Politics: When Should Companies Take a Public Position?
Finding the Right CEO During a Crisis
The Abrupt GC Departure: How to Avoid Being Blindsided
Blue Ribbon Commission Report on Talent Development
When CEOs Go Rogue: Director Oversight of Corporate Goodwill and Social Capital
Develop Effective Talent Oversight Processes
Workforces: A "Wicked Problem" Where Boards Can Help
Three Talent Oversight Misconceptions: Highlights From the 2022 NACD Summit
The Board’s Role in the Transformation of Work
Better Succession Planning Starts with Knowing Your CEO
What to Do With a Struggling CEO
The Battle for Talent Is Now a (Corporate) Culture War
Private Company Compensation Committees Are Following Public Firms’ Lead
Board Diversity FAQ
Ensuring a Strong Talent Plan: Looking Beyond the C-Suite
Maintaining a High-Value Board-CEO Relationship
When CEOs Speak Up
Innovative Development Approaches for the CEO Talent Pipeline
CEO Succession Planning Questions
Sample Talent Matrix for Identifying High-Potential Employees
Sample Readiness and Succession Charts
Sample CEO Succession Process
Executive Profile Template
Director FAQ: The Role of the Executive Chair
Foster a Successful Transition Process
Leading an Effective CEO Transition: It’s a Journey, Not an Event
An Interim CEO Could Be a Board's Blessing
Multiyear Board Succession Planning Matrix
The Healthy Departure: Considerations for Effective Off-Boarding
Johnson & Johnson’s CEO Succession Press Release
Five Reasons Why CEO Succession Fails, and How to Get It Right
ISS’ Proxy Voting Guidelines on CEO Succession Planning (p. 18)
CII’s Policy on CEO Succession Planning (Section 2.9)
Think CEO Progression, Not CEO Succession
Succession Planning Best Practices from Kimberly-Clark
Championing Successful CEO Succession
NACD Handbook on Success at the Top: CEO Evaluation and Succession
SEC Staff Legal Bulletin on Disclosure of CEO Succession Plans (Section C)