Developing Your

Succession Planning Program

Succession planning is a powerful tool that increases employee engagement and retention, ensures business and leadership continuity, promotes knowledge transfer, and provides skill and career growth opportunities for your staff. In this session we'll explore a step-by-step model that applies to any size organization, key roles and responsibilities, and the success factors that will help you avoid the most common pitfalls. 

This training will be presented by Kammy Haynes, PhD., and Chris Atkinson, Principal Consultants at CPS HR Consulting. 

We look forward to you joining us via Teams from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.

About your Presenters

                                  Kammy Haynes                                   

Dr. Haynes is the CEO of her own company and a Project Consultant and Trainer with CPS HR Consulting with more than 25 years of public, private, and non-profit experience with enhancing organizational success with practical solutions. She specializes in employee engagement, succession planning, performance management, survey development, improving managerial and leadership capabilities, and strategic planning. 

Chris Atkinson

Mr. Atkinson has over 13 years of experience working in private sector consulting, local government, and in internal consulting capacities. He specializes in organizational performance assessment, and its several focus areas. These include organizational assessment, organizational structure and staffing, succession planning, business process improvement, and workload analysis. He has assisted numerous organizations to assess problem areas and make recommendations for improvement so that they can target resources and achieve significant performance improvement. His work experience also includes fee studies, job analyses, test development and validation, recruitment and selection, and employee engagement.