Expert professional speaker and career motivational speaker in South Africa and interventions around succession planning - Quite frankly - stay away from organizations where there is absolutely no succession planning strategy, unless you are not into climbing the corporate ladder. Outstanding staff members take their careers very serious and look for opportunity for promotion. When your event motivational speaker had a career in the corporate world, he or she will have a good understanding about this process and will be able to share their message in the line of this. When one refers to "succession plan", it can mean a variety of things in corporate human resources. Broadly speaking there are three lines involved: technical, functional and cross-functional path. The first line - technical - is about being a technical expert in any area and not having any people reporting to you. For explanation purposes - if the corporate world had roles for the full-time professional speaker in service - they would have been in this line. Secondly there is the functional line. This can include being a manager of technical experts and a manager of managers (having managers reporting to you) within a specific function. Lastly there is the cross-functional line which means in future you can lead across functions and divisions, as well as have senior managers reporting to you. If your company must regularly make a choice on a motivational speaker par excellence, then ensure that they understand this corporate line. Leadership intentionality is the foundation of a healthy organization and therefore your managerial pipeline gets ensured through rigorous succession planning processes.