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Are you thinking about starting a formal succession plan in your business? We know that busy business owners would rather visit customers and focus on business operations or anything else before turning time and attention to succession planning.  If this sounds like you, here is some advice from Excelerant Partner Jennifer Adcock, MS, CSP (Certified Succession Planner), SPHR (Senior Professional inRead more

Welcome Aboard: Successful, New Hire On boarding “Many professionals share the experience of having shown up for their first day of work only to find their new company isn’t quite prepared to welcome them. Maybe a desk hasn’t been cleared, or a computer ordered; in some cases, management is too busy even to sit downRead more

Excelerant Recognized with Top Honors at 2014 Leadership 500 Awards LAFAYETTE, LA – April 18, 2014 – Excelerant, a premier provider of leadership development and executive coaching services, has been recognized as a Top 15 Category Winner of the top 500 leadership development companies in the country by HR.com and Leadership Excellence magazine. Excelerant debuted onRead more

LAFAYETTE, LA(November 13, 2013) – The Moody Executive Institute, a division of the B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, is hosting a Dean’s Breakfast and Closing Ceremony to recognize business leaders from around the state of Louisiana who completed the Institute’s Executive Leadership Development Program. The eventRead more

BREW 2013 Features Women’s Business Leaders Breakfast Nine local women in business to participate as conversation leaders Baton Rouge, LA. (November 13, 2013) –Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week (BREW) 2013 will include the third annual Women’s Business Leaders Breakfast on Wednesday, November 20 at 7:30 am at the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center. This year’s eventRead more

Excelerant, in partnership with LAGCOE-Louisiana Gulf Coast Oil Exposition, is presenting the first LAGCOE DRILLS think tank event on Thursday Oct. 24, 2013. The panel event is designed as an interactive dialogue between senior executives, the next generation of industry leaders and audience members on the subjects of LEADERSHIP, LEGACY and SUCCESSION. David H. Welch |Read more

As a company leader, you are responsible for defining and executing your company’s business plan – finance, operations, business development and people. Executives in today’s industry are thinking strategically about the three main areas: company culture, leadership succession planning, and accountability.  The article “Step 1: Think. Step 2: Lead,” by Elise Bouchner and Manuel F.Read more

Congratulations to EXCELERANT partners Elise Bouchner and Jennifer Adcock on receiving their Certified Succession Planner (CSP) certification. Owners and heads of growing companies can use certified succession planners to: 1) assess the capability of business ownership and management to endure the challenges of business succession, 2) interpret and communicate succession assets, liabilities and develop anRead more

High-growth companies are now in or entering their annual planning cycles. For most heads of businesses or departments, it can be difficult to be BOTH facilitator AND executive participant in a meeting. This article, which includes interviews from managing partners Elise Bouchner and Christina Harper Olivier, highlights the benefits of using a certified professional facilitatorRead more