Featuring Smeal alumna, Dara Klein ('87 Marketing) who is a national speaker on board and CEO succession. Dara is currently the Managing Director at Kaplan Partners, a retained executive search and board advisory firm. For the last 15 years at Kaplan Partners, she has leveraged her 25 plus years of leadership in talent advisory helping CEOs and Boards of Directors operate more effectively. Join Dara as she walks us through the succession planning processes covering benefits for both the employer and the employee and important factors to consider. Dara will also touch base on succession planning for family owned businesses.

"The succession planning process goes hand in hand with strategic planning. Both processes of strategic planning and succession planning are enterprise wide efforts, and should therefore be a trickle-down effect."
—Dara J. Klein