Hello wonderful list,

Do any of you have curriculum or materials related to succession planning that you would be willing to share? Or any really successful cases of succession planning you're aware of? We've gotten a number of requests for such programming, and I would love to see what other folks have done as I'm planning the curriculum. I'll obviously cite and appropriately credit any shared sources if I use them.

Thank you!
Kate

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Kate Ragon, PhD (she/they, how to say my namehttps://www.name-coach.com/kate-ragon)

Labor Educator

Assistant Clinical Professor

The LABOR Schoolhttps://ler.la.psu.edu/outreach/labor-school/

School of Labor and Employment Relations

The Pennsylvania State University

kzr5520@psu.edumailto:kzr5220@psu.edu

Let's schedule a time to meet: https://calendly.com/kateragon/office-hours

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