# How Do You Build a Leadership Pipeline in Hospitality?

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Podcast: [The Michelle Pascoe Hospitality Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michelle-pascoe-hospitality-podcast-332550)
Published: 2026-07-28T13:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.michellepascoe.com/The-Michelle-Pascoe-Hospitality-Podcast
Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSN6368725827.mp3
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## Resource

Building a hospitality leadership pipeline means identifying your next leaders before you need them. Michelle Pascoe, Certified Speaking Professional and hospitality training expert with over 30 years' experience, outlines a four-step approach: identify internal talent now, have honest succession conversations with your board, protect your leadership development budget, and broaden your talent pool beyond traditional club experience. Are the clubs around you already running out of leaders, and they just don't know it yet? In this solo episode, Michelle draws on a month of guest conversations to address one of the most pressing structural issues facing Australian clubs right now: the leadership pipeline gap. Senior retirements have already started. GMs and operations managers who built their careers through the club structure of the 1980s and 90s are retiring or burning out, and the generation below them has not been developed to step into those roles. Recruitment alone will not fix this. If you have not built the culture and developed your people internally, you will spend far more time and money recruiting than you would ever have spent on development. A leadership pipeline works because it creates a continuous supply of capable people who are ready to step up before the gap becomes a crisis. The next five years will reveal which clubs were building something and which clubs were just managing. The ones who act now, while they still have time, are the ones who will be ready. Key Takeaways The leadership pipeline crisis already unfolding in Australian clubs as senior retirements accelerate. Why recruitment alone cannot solve a development problem, and what clubs should be doing instead. What a real leadership pipeline looks like in practice, from frontline identificati…

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