Association Management · May 2025
Issue43
Succession Planning for Secretary Generals
A generation of long-serving association leaders is retiring; we look at how boards are structuring handovers without losing institutional memory.
Association Management
May 2025
No. 43 — May 2025
Succession Planning for Secretary Generals
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What Issue 43 covers
A generation of long-serving association leaders is retiring; we look at how boards are structuring handovers without losing institutional memory.
This brief is drawn from Issue 43 of PLENARY Magazine, published May 2025. The full digital edition includes the complete feature, supporting data, and interviews with association executives, convention bureaux and PCOs referenced in this story.
Also in Issue 43
- Destination and venue updates from across the global MICE market
- Association leadership interviews and governance case studies
- Industry data on congress attendance, budgets and technology adoption
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