Jeffrey M Cohn helps organizations develop better succession planning processes and groom rising stars into future leaders. Cohn was previously a Research Fellow at the Harvard Business School; the Director of Research at Chief Executive Leadership Institute (now at Yale); and a Director at the Law & Economics Consulting Group. He has given speeches on leadership and succession planning and has published widely, including a recent cover story in the Harvard Business Review, "Growing Talent as if Your Business Depended on It" (with R Khurana and L Reeves). He has also published in The Economist Intelligence Unit;