Ep. 98 Timea Kristof on the factors for a successful succession process

Handing the baton over to someone else can be risky, especially when it’s your company you’re handing over. Timea Kristof shares her research on six key factors necessary for a successful succession process to happen, and one of the most important factors might surprise you. It’s love.

Timea shares insights from her research, including examples of organisations she interviewed such as a family business with three generations of failed successions, as well as her own lived experience of handovers. We also discuss Peter Koenig’s Source Work and how this is a helpful lens when thinking about succession. And we also share some personal learning moments as people pleasers in recovery!

Resources:

• Timea’s website and research https://www.gekko.consulting/founder-succession-research/

• The webinar recording of Timea presenting her research for ConsciousU

• Read more about Source Work:

• Tom Nixon’s book Work with Source

• A Little Red Book About Source by Stefan Merckelbach

• Nadja Taranczewski’s programme, CU Source: https://www.conscious-u.com/cusource/

• Related Leadermorphosis podcast episodes:

• Ep. 49 with Peter Koenig about Source

• Ep. 5 with Tom Nixon