With experience in nearly two dozen acquisitions in eight countries, we provide end-to-end M&A services from a human capital management perspective.  We set up and manager HR Due Diligence before close, as well as post-close integration guidance. We work with your team to order and then assess due diligence data, to create a plan for closing day, and to manage the post-deal workforce consolidation and the cultural integration of the companies.  We can help with designing retention strategies for key people, and with the exit of redundant staff.  Following integration, we provide culture and engagement surveys to measure success and plan next steps.

  Smaller companies often have excellent daily HR management, but lack a strategic HR leader. Not at the size to justify a full time Chief HR Officer, these companies struggle to incorporate sound human capital strategies into business plans. We can provide a seasoned, global CHRO on a part-time basis to deliver leadership to both your HR team and Executive team. From vendor optimization to the creation of compensation systems and career path programs to employee relations management, we augment the tactical skills of your HR team to create a strategic HR force to drive the company forward. Over time, your tactical HR leader becomes the strategic leader you need, eliminating the need for our services.  You can retain a fractional CHRO for as little as 12 hours per month!

  With specific expertise in business strategy refinement, the intricacies of  effective business communication, and overall leadership effectiveness, we offer short and long term coaching to c-suite executives. With the addition of Strength Finders, 360 degree evaluations, and Hogan assessment tools as well as in-box and behavioral interview sessions we can accelerate the effectiveness of leaders. Through our network of consultants we also provide experts in coaching at the mid-management level of your organization. Services include both group and individual coaching for managers and directors.

Using a five step program that creates a sustainable, actionable program, we can teach your leadership team what succession planning is, how it differs from mentoring or talent development, and then lead you through a process to identify critical positions and competency requirements, assess the existing talent within the organization, create individual development plans to prepare rising talent for specific assignments, and build a formal monitoring and updating system to ensure sustainable development of successors.

Often times, crystallizing your view of the optimal future and putting it into actionable form takes outside help.  Using tools like Vivid Visioning, Scenario Planning, and Three Horizons Thinking, we can lead your senior team in solidifying short and long term planning. Our facilitation of strategy development creates a clear vision with actionable steps that can be implemented, monitored, and adapted.

We provide training and consulting on a wide variety of management topics, including Succession Planning, Thinking Financial Terms for the Non-Finance Manager, Human Capital Considerations in M&A, Managing People Cross-Border, and Facilitating Meetings for Maximum Results. Offered in seminar format with exercises to ensure application of knowledge, courses can be run in half-day or full-day formats, or broken up into a series of two 3-4 hour sessions.