Board, CEO and staff succession planning are essential to ensuring tomorrow’s purpose-driven organization. Change in personnel is inevitable for all organizations. Such change can often be a challenging time, especially when vacancies occur in leadership positions. This course focuses on the board’s responsibility and role in assuring that the cooperative has a succession plan in place for the CEO and itself. Also discussed is the board’s role in ensuring that the CEO has a process in place to ensure ongoing development of the organization’s workforce potential and a plan to assure continuity and quality in leadership