From CEO replacement to reinvention - INSEAD Professor Stanislav Shekshnia

CEO succession is more than a replacement exercise. It is an opportunity for reinvention — a decision that shapes the organisation's next chapter.

Yet in most boardrooms, succession is treated as an emergency response rather than an ongoing strategic discipline. And when the moment arrives, boards discover that the decision is rarely as rational as they had assumed: it is shaped by relationships, bias, timing, and the quiet dynamics between board and CEO.

What questions should boards be asking long before a transition is on the table? What separates succession processes that strengthen an organisation from those that quietly weaken it?

Join us for an Executive Board Forum with Stanislav Shekshnia, Senior Affiliate Professor at INSEAD and author of 21 Questions About CEO Succession. Drawing on more than 25 years of research and advisory work with boards across the world, Stanislav will challenge the conventional playbook and share what leading boards do differently — from identifying the CEO the organisation will need next, to managing bias in assessment, to guiding the transition long after the appointment is made.

Programme:

09:30: Arrival & networking

10:00: Welcome by Scandinavian Executive Institute and Kromann Reumert

10:30: Keynote by Stanislav Shekshnia: Rethinking CEO Succession — From Replacement to Reinvention

11:15: Panel discussion with Stanislav and Danish chairs / senior board members, exploring how these principles play out in a Nordic board context + Q&A — your opportunity to bring your own boardroom dilemmas into the conversation

11:45: Networking and light lunch