Branch Out - A Podcast from Connection Builders
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Change is inherent in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) transactions, making preparation and methods to overcome the challenges associated with the change essential to a successful process. In today’s show, we speak to Jennifer Fondrevay, an M&A expert, speaker, and Founder of Day1 Ready. Her company is on a mission to rediscover the humanity in business and provides services for a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and small businesses. The human component is the core of the business, such as culture, productivity, and retention. Jennifer advises senior leadership, acts as a liaison to middle managers and provides a progressive approach to organizational transformation companies require during an M&A.
She is also the author of the book Now What?, providing readers with a guide to navigating the complex M&A process based on more than 60 interviews with M&A integration survivors and practitioners. In our conversation, Jennifer walks us through the M&A process and how change can lead to opportunities. Specifically, we discuss the role of emotion during an M&A, the impacts the process has on employees, ways in which M&A is similar to a relationship, the underlying ideology of her approach to M&A, and why change is inevitable in the business world. We also learn what red flags to look out for when assessing a partnership and how companies can overcome the challenges during an M&A.
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