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Hosted by Klint Kendrick · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 20 episodes
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Master Your Merger is the podcast where deal strategy and people strategy meet.Hosted by Klint Kendrick, this show explores how HR, corporate development, and private equity leaders unlock value by putting culture, leadership, and talent first.Through candid conversations and real-world case studies, you'll learn what truly drives M&A success — from the inside out.
Klint Kendrick hosts Master Your Merger Podcast, a business show with 20 episodes published.
Most deals that fall apart were not undone by the financials. They were undone by founders who never asked how much they needed, buyers who handed the process to their lawyers and stepped back, and teams left wondering w
When two leadership teams come together after a deal, the execution risk is not in the deal room. It is in the first moment those two groups have to make a real decision together, under pressure, with no shared rules for
Most M&A failures are not strategy failures. The deal thesis was sound, the target made sense, and the diligence cleared. What breaks is execution: culture assessed in one deck slide, integration leadership named too lat
Communication in M&A is often treated as something to finalize after the deal team has made the big decisions. That is a costly mistake. Employees, managers, clients, suppliers, and leaders all experience the transaction
When a deal is moving fast, “more communication” often creates less clarity. HR, IT, and Comms ship messages in parallel, employees get overwhelmed, and critical integration actions slip. This episode gets practical on w
Most integrations do not derail because leaders lack strategy. They derail because execution gets buried under miscommunication, unclear ownership, and self-inflicted complexity that multiplies over time. In this episode
Most M&A integrations do not fail because the strategy is wrong. They fail because leaders underestimate what it takes for people to adopt new ways of working. A communication plan is not the same thing as change managem
Most deals do not drift off track because the values sound different. They drift because behaviors do not match, decision-making slows down, and uncertainty creates integration debt: duplicated work, stalled commitments,
Most integration plans fail in the same place: they assume the organization will behave rationally after close. But once you combine teams, reporting lines, and decision-making, the real operating patterns show up fast,
Mergers succeed or fail based on more than strategy and financial engineering. The people capabilities inside an organization often determine whether integration creates momentum or friction. In this episode, Klint Kendr
Many companies treat M&A as an occasional event. For companies that acquire frequently, it quickly becomes a capability. In this episode of the Master Your Merger Podcast , Klint Kendrick speaks with Anna Wilson , a seni
Most deal teams can model the financials. Far fewer can explain—early and credibly—whether the leadership team can actually deliver the value creation plan. In this episode of the Master Your Merger Podcast , Klint Kendr
Most integration teams can explain synergies, savings, and EBITDA targets on paper. Far fewer can quantify what is actually happening on the people side of the business after close. In this episode of the Master Your Mer
Most leaders know change is hard. Very few know why people resist, when to communicate, or how to move teams forward without burning trust. In this episode of the Master Your Merger Podcast , Klint Kendrick is joined by
In post-merger integration, most teams can run the checklist. The hard part is getting people aligned, working together, and executing the strategy fast enough to capture value. In this episode of the Master Your Merger
In M&A, few mistakes damage trust faster than payroll problems. In this episode of the Master Your Merger Podcast, Klint Kendrick talks with Melissa Madi, a seasoned HR and payroll leader who has supported hundreds of tr
Roll-ups do not fail because the spreadsheet is wrong. They fail when seller psychology, team readiness, and platform gaps turn integration into a slow bleed. In this episode of the Master Your Merger Podcast, Klint Kend
What happens when HR is asked to integrate a global acquisition without complete data? In this episode of the Master Your Merger Podcast , Klint Kendrick speaks with Naveen Nagpal, a global HR M&A strategist with more th
What separates the 10 percent of deals that deliver real value from the 90 percent that don’t? In this Season 2 premiere, Master Your Merger Podcast host Klint Kendrick talks with Al Ansari , founder of M&A Alliance and
AI is reshaping M&A—but technology alone doesn’t create deal value. People, leadership, and integration discipline do. In this HR M&A Roundtable session, host Klint Kendrick, PhD, SPHR convenes senior practitioners to ex
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Dr. Marc Prine
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