From Board to Bench: How to Build Your Leadership Succession System

Jon Sweigart is a Principal consultant with the Praxis Consulting Group with over a decade of experience providing practical and strategic support that links professional development and performance with organizational goals. He draws on his broad professional experience in senior management, human resources, talent development and workplace learning in his work with employee-owned, non-profit, and private sector organizations. His work includes assessment and coaching, strategic and succession planning, and multilevel leadership development – all with the goal of building sustainable systems and shared ownership.

Tom Bonner is a Senior Consultant at Praxis. With over a decade of experience in management and organizational development, he has worked alongside leaders and teams across privately held businesses, nonprofits, and higher education institutions — including years of deep engagement with family business owners that shaped his thinking on ownership, culture, and shared accountability. He believes that ownership fundamentally transforms how people lead, how they show up, and how they envision the future, and he brings that conviction to his work helping organizations build the structures, conversations, and alignment that make employee ownership meaningful in practice.

Grounded in a background in the arts, he has a particular interest in the stories people tell about their roles and how competing narratives can quietly undermine progress — and a proven strength in facilitating the complex, high-stakes conversations that move organizations forward. He holds a Master's degree in Arts Management from Drexel University and a Bachelor of Arts in Directing from Marymount Manhattan College, and is certified in Negotiation and Mediation, Executive Leadership, and the Predictive Index.

Alex Moss is a Founding Principal of Praxis. His expertise includes ownership culture, strategy, governance, leadership, and workforce education and engagement, and he is a frequent speaker and author on these matters.

He is a Trustee of the Employee Ownership Foundation and a past member of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Employee Ownership, and of The ESOP Association, and he has served the employee ownership community in numerous other capacities.

Alex serves as a current / recent Independent Director on four ESOP company boards, he chairs two of those, and he is NACD Directorship Certified.