Heidrick & Struggles’ global CEO & Board Practice recently held a virtual roundtable discussion on global best practices for CEO succession that boards can adopt to meet their strategic and longer-term succession planning goals as the roles of boards members and CEOs are expanding and new approaches to recruitment and selection and evaluation and development are required.

The following excerpts from the webinar feature Richard Huntingford, the chair of Unite Group plc and Future plc, and Vinita Bali, a non-executive director at SATS Ltd. and Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation and lead director at Syngene International.

In this first video, Richard Huntingford discusses global CEO succession best practices.

In this second video, Vinita Bali discusses overcoming CEO succession planning obstacles.

About the moderator

Kit Bingham (kbingham@heidrick.com) is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles’ London office and co-leader of the CEO & Board Practice in the United Kingdom.