Organizations hire coaches to enhance the leadership skills of individual executives, high potentials, and diversity candidates. Given the investment of time and financial resources to provide coaching services to select individuals, it is likely that these individuals are slated for the organization’s succession plan or talent management process. Executive coaches with an understanding of succession planning and the organizational context impacting one’s career, have an edge in gaining credibility with senior management and their coaching clients.

Having insight into the “big picture” of managing leadership talent allows coaches to ask more powerful questions of their clients. Understanding the organizational context enables them to help their clients create developmental plans better aligned with the goals of both the individual and the organization. This presentation includes a panel who will share their insights and experiences in succession planning: Aerospace Corp’s. Stephen P. Presley, Director of Succession and Performance Mgt., and Deb Humphreys, Sr. Specialist, Succession and Performance Mgt., and Robert Hubbell, firm-wide Managing Partner of Heller Ehrman LLP, a 700 person law firm.

In tonight’s presentation you will learn:

• Key elements of succession planning
• Positioning of executive coaching within the succession planning process
• The 9-Block Performance/Potential Grid – what it is and how it suggests a focus for coaching
• Three most successful approaches for developing leadership talent and key questions to accelerate the learning process
• Entry points for coaches to add value and market their services

Beverly L. Weise, M.B.A., is President of Leadership Talent Solutions, a leadership consulting and coaching firm. With more than 25 years experience working domestically and internationally, she served as an HR executive in an aerospace company, executive director of an international organization, leadership coach, and O.D. consultant. Her areas of expertise include: succession planning, executive coaching, leadership development, change management and team development. To learn more about Beverly Weise, M.B.A., visit www.LeadershipTalentSolutions.com.