Building A Succession Pathway: The Coleman Health Services Case Study

Succession planning is a major challenge for every organization, and the answer is often complicated by ever-evolving executive team competency needs and unexpected executive departures. Every organization should have a succession pathway designed to provide maximum executive team bench strength. (For even more, check out last month’s newsletter, How To Build The Right Executive Team: The OPEN MINDS Management Newsletter, March 2026.)

The reality for every executive team is that executives leave for many reasons and often do so unpredictably. No leadership team should be built on the assumption that its members will stay forever. This means succession . . .