Succession Planning in the Library: Developing Leaders, Managing Change

About Paula Singer

Paula M. Singer is the president and principal consultant of The Singer Group Inc. a management-consulting firm she founded in 1983. Paula provides consulting services in the areas of talent and leadership development; succession planning; compensation and performance management; strategic planning; organization design and development; training and other human resource development services to clients in the public private and nonprofit sectors. Public and academic libraries as well as library associations state libraries and Boards of Trustees throughout the country have engaged The Singer Group to conduct a variety of human resources studies and projects. She is the coauthor with Laura Francisco of Designing a Compensation System for Your Library Second Edition coauthor of Winning with Library Leadership: Enhancing Services through Connection Contribution and Collaboration (with Christi Olson) and Human Resources for Results: The Right Person for the Right Job (with Jeanne Goodrich) all published by the American Library Association. Paula has written numerous articles and is a frequent speaker at ALA PLA and state library association conferences and events.