Case Studies

Executive Succession Planning

A successful company with a young, proactive CEO and nine offices in the US and Canada, selected Executive Management Systems to work with the CEO and board in executive succession planning. Over a period of 18 months, the board and the leadership team participated in a process which:

• Fully engaged 15 members of the leadership team, board and a talent pool
• Identified the five key areas of success for the CEO position
• Measured the talent pool against those five criteria

Results:

"Executive Management Systems helped us to identify and to understand the roles and responsibilities of our leadership team to manage the business in the future. This gave me, as CEO, a deeper understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of our leadership team and reinforced some of my earlier insights. We were able to identify gaps in our current leadership team compared to our future requirements."
– President & CEO

"Executive Management Systems quickly developed a pretty decent knowledge of our business model and what we wanted to accomplish in succession planning. Mel drew out the board’s thinking in a couple of board sessions and put structure to a thought process we had been tap dancing around for a year. The executive talent assessments were very useful. They not only helped us understand how talented the top levels were in our company – they helped us see where those talents can be best leveraged by the CEO in the future."
– Corporate Board Member