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The Legacy Leadership Program helps organizations thrive through leadership and staff transitions. Board and staff build shared tools and practices to plan ahead, so the organization stays strong when change comes.

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Youth INC convenes a cohort of peer organizations for 12 months of shared work on succession planning and talent development, preparing the people who will carry each organization forward.

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Leading Through Change

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In Legacy Leadership, we partner with leaders to prepare their organizations for transition, whenever that moment comes. Together, we approach succession as an ongoing process of building a legacy: strengthening systems today and cultivating the people who will lead next.

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Navigating Transitions

Helps leaders put succession and emergency plans in place, backed by governance practices that keep the organization steady whenever a leader steps away.

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Strengthening Teams

Equips executive directors and senior teams to share responsibility, so the organization's success doesn't rest on any one person.

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Preserving Knowledge

Builds planning habits that capture institutional knowledge, so what the organization has learned stays with it as people move on.

Program Impact

2025 at a Glance

  • 84

    Leaders Served

    Executive directors, senior staff, and board members.

  • 95

    Coaching Sessions

    One-on-one guidance on succession planning, from the board’s role to developing staff talent.

  • 20

    Training & Working Sessions

    Hands-on time building emergency backup plans and identifying the functions each organization depends on.

Source: Youth INC's 2026 Partner Network Annual Report

Building for the future

Participant Perspectives

As a long-term employee, you begin to do things on autopilot at times, and this program made me think about what I do, the organization, our culture, and how I would pass that along to future staff.

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