Succession Development Planning: A Strategy Used to Help Future-Proof Your Workforce

With the development of the global marketplace and a looming labor shortage in the United States, the need for corporations to ready themselves for future workforce and economic pressures is greater than ever. Succession development planning is essential for any organization intent on survival.

Professional executive coach Douglas E. Fenner, EdD, is a leading expert in the field of succession development planning—especially as it applies to today’s multigenerational workforce. In Succession Development Planning: A Strategy Used to Help Future-Proof Your Workforce, he brings his twenty-five years of experience to bear on these important issues.

Starting with a brief, engaging overview of the history of succession planning, Dr. Fenner moves on to the paradigm shifts executives must face in order to cope with the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the need for adaptive functional organization models. He provides solutions for managing and leading an increasingly diverse, multigenerational workforce and offers insights on how a global perspective can help corporations develop critical employee competencies.

Dr. Fenner’s workforce competency assessment tool provides executives an accurate view of employee skill-set deficiencies, and his mind-set transformation framework assists in devising an effective succession development plan.

Insightful and practical, Dr. Fenner’s advice helps future-proof workforces in today’s—and tomorrow’s—rapidly evolving marketplace.

A leading expert in the field of succession development planning, Douglas E. Fenner, EdD, is the founder and president of the Fenner Consulting Group. A professional executive and corporate coach, he pioneered the Department of the Navy’s first succession-planning study.

Dr. Fenner’s academic credentials include a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, a master’s in computer resources and information management, and a doctorate in leadership and educational sciences. He is a thirty-three year retired federal civil servant, and is a veteran of the US Navy.

In addition to being a certified professional executive coach with the International Coaching Federation, Dr. Fenner holds multiple certifications related to corporate succession development, leadership development, and emotional intelligence.

A member of the National Defense Industrial Association and Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association, Dr. Fenner also belongs to the National Society of Black Engineers. In his personal time, he coaches youth league sports and enjoys reading, running, swimming and cycling.