Succession planning could be they need help developing a predictable succession of board officers. It could be that the executive director has just announced her retirement plans, and they aren't sure how to prepare the organization. Or it could be they've experienced a sudden departure of a key staff member and are trying to recover and launch a search. In the Annie E. Casey Foundation monograph, "Building Leaderful Organizations," Tom Wolfred offers three different ways in which organizations engage in succession planning: strategic leader development emergency succession planning