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A guide to the best B2B podcast coverage of succession planning - the shows and 43 episodes that go deepest, ranked by substance, not downloads.

Succession planning requires managing multiple dimensions: legal and financial frameworks for departures, leadership development pipelines, retention strategies, and multi-generational wealth considerations. These episodes cover employee rights in retirement transitions, executive isolation during CEO transitions, talent acceleration under leaders like Nate Boaz, family wealth advising across generations, and the cultural retention drivers that Karlton Butts identifies as critical to keeping institutional knowledge intact during leadership changes.

Best shows on succession planning

Best episodes on succession planning

  1. Values-Driven Succession Planning: How to Leave Something You Love with Everett and Jack Dowling

    Building Unbreakable Brands · 2026-03-12

    80 / 100

    At that time, there weren't as many programs regarding family businesses or succession planning, and he loved what he did.

  2. The Pope's Selection and How Succession Planning (really) Happens in Companies. | S2 E2

    Here's the Deal · 2025-09-04

    77 / 100

    Uh, so what's the deal for today? Today's deal is about succession, specifically succession planning.

  3. The Man Who's Never Lost a Deal in 12 Years (Here's How) | Justin Farmer

    The Accounting Leads Now Podcast · 2026-06-18

    76 / 100

    So being in that my background as an attorney, I help people with you know succession planning, estate planning, business planning.

  4. EP 49 - HEED This: Reading Body Language, Running Investigations, and What Counterintelligence Teaches HR with Derik Clark

    The HR Life Podcast · 2026-05-19

    76 / 100
  5. Passing The Baton In Healthcare Supply Chains

    Taking The Supply Chain Pulse · 2026-02-26

    76 / 100

    Number one is about succession planning.

  6. Episode 64: Luke Jernagan on Building Family Office Services That Go Beyond the Balance Sheet

    Family Business Audiocast · 2026-04-29

    75 / 100

    He helps families navigate succession planning, shared decision making, and generational transition.

  7. Navigating Promotions: How to Stick the Landing Like a Pro! with Steve Mos

    The Step UP · 2026-04-21

    75 / 100

    If somebody is a director and maybe in their in succession planning, they've been told, yeah, you may become a vice president in the next year.

  8. The Ghost in the Machine…. and Who Owns It

    AI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry Phillips · 2026-06-03

    74 / 100

    That's succession planning, onboarding and knowledge management, all wearing a very expensive new coat.

  9. Beyond Numbers: Business Leadership for CFOs Part 2

    Informed Decisions · 2026-07-07

    74 / 100

    can you do to upskill your ability to be ah, an effective uh, presenter, an effective public speaker? What are you doing, uh, to um, um, uh, build your bench underneath you, the, you know, the whole succession planning, making yourself not necessary in your particular role so that you've got a couple of people underneath you that might be somebody who could replace you because that, that can, that, that'll help as well.

  10. Ep 276 - New Retirement Rules: Employee Rights and Employer Obligations

    The HR Room Podcast · 2026-06-30

    72 / 100

    You can't have, um, a situation where the organization says, well, we've a retirement policy that says intergenerational fairness, succession planning, health and safety, whatever it is, means that we retire people at age X.

  11. Preserving Powerhouse Talent

    Schmidt List · 2026-02-17

    72 / 100
  12. Why You're Not Getting Promoted (And What to Do About It)

    Leadership Sovereignty Podcast: Career Growth and Promotion · 2026-04-06

    71 / 100

    I teed myself up for succession planning as being replaced.

  13. Ep #416: Beyond the Balance Sheet: Advising Families Across Generations

    Behind The Advisor · 2026-06-03

    68 / 100

    This time we're focusing on how his work has evolved specifically into helping families navigate aging parents, succession planning and multigenerational wealth decisions.

  14. Episode 59: Emily Balentine Barbour on Multi-Generational Wealth and Family Legacy at Balentine

    Family Business Audiocast · 2026-02-16

    66 / 100

    We talked about human capital, talked about that governance, like the board of directors or board charter or external advisors, and just preparing for that succession planning at the business level.

  15. Finding Your Fulfilling Fit

    The Upstream Leader Podcast · 2026-02-16

    65 / 100

    So I'm kind of, one of the big things that I've gotten from ELA is, is like you talked about this succession planning and really focusing on who is going to step into my role as I step into the next role.

  16. Season 1 - Episode 25 | The Real Journey of Entrepreneurship - Pain, Purpose, and Personal Growth: Mr. Daron Hongsananda (Thailand)

    Thriving in the Age of Disruption · 2026-01-03

    65 / 100

    Ramesh gets into a deep, heartfelt discussion with our guest speaker from Thailand, on the intricacies of inter-generational succession planning in a successful family business and balancing that with entrepreneurial ambitions to build one's own business.

  17. Developing Talent & Accelerating Leadership with Nate Boaz

    The Big 4 Transparency Podcast · 2026-05-21

    63 / 100

    And the firm also needs some succession planning.

  18. Leadership Is a Contact Sport: How to Stop Avoiding the Tough Stuff

    The Visible Leader · 2025-07-01

    62 / 100

    And where's the succession planning in that?

  19. Recipe for Success - The Story of How a Successful Family Business Transitioned Between Generations

    Exploring Family Business · 2022-07-14

    61 / 100

    Succession planning, or more specifically a lack of it, is the number one reason family owned businesses fail to survive.

  20. EP 215: Building Human-Centered Talent Acquisition in the AI Era

    The Breakthrough Hiring Show · 2026-05-14

    61 / 100

    about how do we think about the the full life cycle of the employee, right? Like, and that's not down to the things that our like HR, you know, colleagues are doing, but really thinking about like succession planning, thinking about, you know, where do we have points of weakness, thinking about how do we work with our hiring managers to be a counselor?

  21. Launching into the Future: Middle Market Trends for 2025, with Doug Farren

    In Good Companies · 2025-02-11

    61 / 100
  22. Talent, Strategy, and Story Telling: James B. Smith, CEO of Rare Placement, on Finding - and Becoming - the Right Retail Leader (Encore Epiosde)

    The Voice of Retail · 2026-06-26

    59 / 100

    one of the first questions you have for executives, what's, uh, your succession plan? What do great succession plans look like? Are they being structured properly? What's your tips about how to get succession planning right?

  23. Karlton Butts: Attorney Development, Culture, and the Real Drivers of Retention

    BE THAT LAWYER · 2026-06-08

    56 / 100
  24. Know Why You Win (Audiobook)

    Rethink The Way You Sell · 2026-03-19

    56 / 100

    Strategic decisions get easier because you understand what's actually driving your success, and succession planning becomes a lot less scary because the knowledge isn't locked in a veterans unconscious patterns.

  25. Dr. Nicholas Michels - Rich by Choice: Why True Wealth is an Immediate Decision, Not a Destination

    Becoming Preferred · 2026-06-22

    55 / 100

    So a lot of billionaires and the dysfunction that goes with that and succession planning and affluenza and the kids being spoiled and ruined and I want to kind of get into that a little bit as well because sure, an important element to it.

  26. The CEO Journey: From Isolation to Impact with Barb Kinnaird

    Tip Top · 2026-06-17

    55 / 100
  27. Family Business Funding in a Post-Pandemic World

    Exploring Family Business · 2022-06-30

    55 / 100

    And this has led to more discussions around succession planning, around protecting value, around acquisitions to take advantage of these markets market conditions.

  28. Leading a Team and What it Means to Truly be of Service with Geoffrey Roche

    The Leadership Mind · 2023-07-31

    55 / 100

    He also talks about the importance of succession planning and how that might be the one thing that we're focusing on least in leadership and is something that requires a greater amount of intention, focus and strategy to make sure that organizations are really playing the long

  29. The Final Months Before a Sale Can Make or Break Your Exit

    The Ins and Outs of Selling a Business · 2026-06-25

    54 / 100
  30. Can AI Make You a Great Leader?

    Meta-Cast · 2026-06-15

    54 / 100

    Promotions, um, you know, succession planning.

  31. Constraint Creates Clarity: A Better Executive Search Strategy for CEOs and Board Candidates

    Get Hired Up: Executive Brand Management · 2026-07-17

    52 / 100
  32. Courageous Leadership with Kevin Cashman

    Reimagining the Future: Envisioning What's Next · 2026-01-29

    50 / 100
  33. From IT executive to founder & owner of Human Insights Consulting Group, meet Jenn Lorenz

    The Career Flipper Podcast · 2025-10-23

    45 / 100

    What does it look like to have someone else coming? You know, think about succession planning on that front, make sure, you know, the ducks are in the row before I can actually leave.

  34. Leaders Don't Stop Learning

    The Coaching Outcomes Podcast from Values Based Leadership · 2026-03-09

    42 / 100
  35. Recapping 50 Interviews with L&D Professionals

    Surveying the L&D Landscape · 2024-09-10

    39 / 100

    Continued skill towards, like designing leadership development programs like competency modeling or succession planning or for talent marketplaces like building out job aids to help people better do their work.

  36. Freedom to Build, Risk, and Begin Again: A Fourth of July Message from Julie Keyes

    Poised for Exit · 2026-07-02

    36 / 100
  37. HR Is Not Your Friend? Debunking Another Viral HR Hate Rant

    Jaded HR · 2026-06-18

    35 / 100

    Um, you need to have succession planning.

  38. 250 Episodes: What Leading Through the Mess Actually Teaches You

    The Unconventional Leadership Podcast · 2026-06-11

    35 / 100
  39. Due Diligence Deep Dive

    Buying A Business · 2025-11-11

    32 / 100
  40. Buying A Business

    Buying A Business · 2025-10-28

    32 / 100
  41. Success Leaves Clues Ep. 290 - The Leadership Shift That Builds Companies That Last with Sarah O’Brien, Chief Operating Officer at SMS Security

    Success Leaves Clues with Robin Bailey and Al McDonald · 2026-04-23

  42. How Can We Get A Better Handle On Workforce Planning?

    Diagnosing The Workplace: Not Just An HR Podcast · 2024-07-31

  43. Preparing your business for succession

    Exploring Family Business · 2021-06-03