Leadership Due Diligence: Putting L&D in the M&A Game

Webcast Highlights:

• Role of leadership in successful M&As and its position as the foundational aspect of M&A success
• M&A leadership profiles for acquirers and targets by gender, managerial level, corporate function, etc.
• Connection between leadership and culture in M&As and why leadership is more important
• Case studies on recent M&A failures like Yahoo-Tumblr and Alphabet/Google-Nest-Dropcam
• How HR can play a key decision making role in M&As
• Application of Potentious M&A Collective Leadership Risk Assessment™ (CLRA) methodology to M&A due diligence

Leadership is of critical importance in Mergers & Acquisitions and leadership is a critical function of human capital. New, seminal research sheds light on the specific set of leadership skills that predict M&A success—for acquirers and targets. This research—for the first time—quantified the impact of leadership on the ability for a particular M&A to succeed or fail. From this work has come the groundbreaking M&A leadership frameworks that allows our professionals to make useful comparisons between themselves and potential target companies to understand leadership strengths and leadership risk areas between the two companies.

This informative and interactive session will delve into this groundbreaking research and explain why leadership, specifically collective leadership capability, is critical to M&As and must be explored during due diligence. Most importantly, to you it will show how human capital can lead this critical exercise. Are you intrigued? You should be.

We can finally have a seat at the M&A decision-making table…a position we deserve.