Organizations face increasing succession risk due to demographic shifts, accelerated skill obsolescence, and AI-driven changes in how work is performed and decisions are made. Traditional succession approaches – often based on historical performance, informal judgments, and static competency models – are no longer sufficient.
This one-day intensive workshop provides a future-oriented, evidence-based approach to succession planning in the AI era.
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Overview
Participants will learn how to:
- Align succession planning with strategy
- Define future-ready leadership capabilities
- Evaluate talent using multiple date sources (including AI-generated insights), and
- Design accelerated development pathways – while maintaining ethical, inclusive, and defensible decision processes.
Audience
- Senior HR leaders
- Talent management professionals
- OD practitioners, and
- Executives responsible for leadership continuity and enterprise capability building
Objectives
- Explain how AI, analytics, and digital platforms are reshaping succession planning
- Distinguish among performance, potential, readiness, and future capability requirements
- Identify mission-critical roles and future leadership capabilities
- Evaluate talent using multi-source and AI-augmented data responsibly
- Design accelerated, experience-based development strategies
- Ensure ethical, inclusive, and defensible succession decisions
- Produce a practical action roadmap for their organization
Agenda
For more information, please check out the brochure link below.
Speaker
William J. Rothwell, Ph.D., DBA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, RODC, CPTD Fellow, FLMI is President of Rothwell & Associates, Inc., Rothwell & Associates, LLC, and Rothwell & Associates Korea. He has 20 years of work experience as a Training Director and HR professional in government and a multinational company. business. He also worked as a consultant for over fifty multinational corporations–including Motorola China, General Motors, Ford, and many others. More recently, he co-founded three small businesses—a personal care home for the elderly (employing twenty-seven people), a motel (employing nine people), and a vacation home business (employing 3 people).
He is a Distinguished Professor in the Workforce Education and Development program, Department of Learning and Performance Systems, at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park campus, and (in that capacity) leads an online program in Organization Development and Change, and also leads specialization on Talent/Organization Development in an onsite Ph.D. program on Workforce Education and Development.
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Date: 9th September 2026.
Place: HILTON KOTA KINABALU, Sabah, Malaysia
Fee:
- USD 600/pax (Normal)
- USD 500/pax (Early Bird, payment before 1 June 2026)
If you are inteterested in joining the program & would like to learn more, please contact ITD Vietnam via +8428 3825 8487, or fill in the form here. Our team will get back later for a FREE consultation on how we can help you.
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