Topic: Succession Planning

Facilitator: Walter Tobin, CEO, ERA
Guest Speaker: Bryan Shirley, CEO, BCS Consulting Services

Do you have a succession plan in place? Join ERA’s next Water Cooler session, featuring guest speaker Bryan Shirley, that will focus on why a formal succession plan is a necessity to your company’s larger defined strategic vision. Topics discussed will include:

• When should you put a succession plan in place?
• What should a succession plan include?
• What challenges can arise when announcing a succession plan?
• How can a succession plan help with your business’ continuity?

No need to register!

For additional details or questions, please contact ecollins@era.org.

Speaker Bio: Bryan C. Shirley, CPMR
CEO, BCS Consulting Services

Shirley is a graduate of Virginia Tech, a visiting professor at the University of Texas-Austin teaching a four-hour course on motivational compensation for outside sales for the CPMR program and teaches the manufacturers’ best practices course for MRERF. He is published in various industries’ sales and trade journals. In addition to serving on many Boards of Directors and Executive Committees, including the ERA executive committee, he is the former president/CEO of MANA, the former executive director of AIM/R and was the president/CEO of COLRUD Corp., a premier manufacturers’ representative organization in the Philadelphia area.