Thomas Kessler
Managing Partner, CEO Kessler Praxis Consult
- Bonn
Accelerate your M&A Integration to create value from your transaction and solidify your competitive positioning
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Biography
I truly enjoy assisting businesses in managing the integration of a company or assets they bought. M&A integration has been my heart blood since the mid 90s.
I am a highly experienced Business Executive with 20 years of U.S. European and Asian experience in Merger Integration and Investment Banking. I thrive in a challenging, dynamic environment. I have been valued as excellent coach and team leader.
This is Who I Help:
If you are
✔ a member of the board of directors, the senior management team or
✔ leading the corporate M&A or merger integration activities
and are seeking training and / or advise to accelerate through and create significant value for your merger integration, I can help you!
This is How I Will help You:
✔ Identifying the success integration criteria during strategic selection
✔ separate integration hurdles from deal breakers during due diligence
✔ Identify, analyze, quantify and prioritize synergies
✔ select the few DayOne tasks that focus your organization and avoid overburdening projects plans
✔ communicating the right message addressing specific urgent concerns
✔ focus your organization on key priorities balancing day-to-day and integration work
✔ re-distributing positions on merit, skills and responsibility avoiding pecking order fights and misguided democratic distribution
✔ communicating value creation to prolong momentum
✔ identify the behavior sets that foster cultural integration
You can email me @ info@integrationsuccess.com.
Industry Expertise
Areas of Expertise
Affiliations
- Zurich University of Applied Sience
- Global PMI Partners
Sample Talks
Integration Success Blueprint - How to accelerate through and create significant value in every merer integration
Integration Success Blueprint Seminar includes presentations, workshop-inteactions, discussions on:
??? Strategic selection: Define strategic reasoning, financial? business case and integration approach for transaction ? approval
??? Integration Approach: Define strategic importance / ? independence matrix and view on elements subject to ? conservation, leverage, consolidation, integration??
? Due Diligence support: identify synergies based on data ? room information and staff discussions??
? Strategy review: identify opportunities; prepare associated ? business cases for discussion with and prioritization through ? management??
? Synergy build out: continue activities pre / post closing -? the level of information access in respective phase is key??
? Day One activities: Plan actions with functional / cross ? functional departments post signing (if necessary also after ? the closing has happened), added by tracking and coaching, ? support??
? Project Management Office: Assistance in set-up of ? project organization, status meeting and reporting ? organization, collating of material into decision focused ? management presentations, coaching existing team to ? manage the integration effectively, assist in establishing ? Work Breakdown Structure (rough breakdown of integration ? activities)
??? Synergy analysis: identify, quantify and prioritize synergies ? using our synergy analysis methodology??
? Restructuring actions: prepare and quantify restructuring ? opportunities for discussion with management??
? Synergy tracking: track and report progress on each ? synergy to be implemented based implementation? timeframe?
?? Communication: Stakeholder Analysis - provide framework ? what to do, when and with whom. Identify jointly required ? communication needs to relevant stakeholder groups ? including interaction with legal etc.
??? Organizational Development: Role clarification ? identify ? and define actions that will enable you to align accountability ? for results, de
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