Every well-run organization has a succession plan. Almost none of them include a health component. The assumption is that senior leaders are healthy until they are not — and when they are not, the organization scrambles. Succession planning that ignores the health trajectory of key personnel is incomplete by definition.
Dr. Paul Kilgore — a physician-epidemiologist, longevity medicine physician, and creator of the DETECTIVE Method™ and the Phenotypic Age Calculator — introduces the concept of succession health planning: a structured, confidential approach to understanding and managing the health risk profiles of mission-critical leadership, not as surveillance, but as the same kind of forward-looking risk management organizations apply to every other critical asset.
This session covers the principles of succession health planning: how to assess leadership health risk without violating privacy or autonomy, how to use validated tools (biological age calculation, cardiovascular risk scoring, cognitive health baselines) to understand the health trajectory of a leadership cohort, how to build organizational resilience through health-informed succession timing, and how to create a culture where proactive health management is a leadership expectation rather than a personal afterthought.
Attendees leave with a succession health planning framework they can adapt to their organization — one that protects both the individuals and the institution.

Format: Executive briefing or board session. Duration: 30–45 minutes. Target audience: Board directors, CHROs, succession planning committees, organizational development leaders, private equity operating partners, family business advisors. Confidential delivery format available. AV needs: screen, microphone, HDMI.