The post-pandemic CEO departures keep coming, with PayPal CEO Dan Schulman becoming the latest to announce his resignation. Last year, Starbucks’s Howard Schultz declared that he’d be leaving the coffee chain (for the third time) this spring, and Levi’s Chip Bergh is midway through passing the baton.
Deborah Rubin, an organizational psychologist with the leadership consulting firm RHR International, has some advice as more retirements emerge: Don’t neglect the emotional dimension of the transition, a factor that sometimes goes overlooked in even the most detailed succession plans.
