Making One Company:
Successful Integration for A/E Firms in Transition

Are changes in your firm distracting your employees? No matter what kind of transition is occurring, this seminar can help you ensure a more successful future for your A/E firm.

The volume of merger or acquisition transactions among A/E firms has continued to escalate over the past few years in spite of a challenging economy. Although the desired objective when bringing two or more separate firms together is to end up with one more successful company, this accomplishment can be elusive. When mergers and acquisitions fail — and 40-60 percent do — the event is often accompanied by surprise and shock. What could possibly have gone wrong? Most often the problem can be traced to a lack of attention paid to culture, staff, processes, best practices, and philosophical integration. Omitting or glossing over this critical aspect of the transaction compromises staff retention, morale, communication, conflict resolution, and business continuity.

The same issues apply to changes in leadership, organizational structure, and firm-wide downsizing or upsizing. To address all of these growing concerns, ZweigWhite has developed a program for leaders of A/E firms that are undergoing significant changes and want to manage the internal disruption that, inevitably, has a direct impact on the bottom line!

Making One Company: Successful Integration for A/E Firms in Transition is a one-day intensive workshop that will present attendees with the strategies needed to avoid the common pitfalls that interfere with business as usual and can derail even the most carefully-planned changes including when separate companies are combined in a merger or acquisition. Session participants will learn specific steps that can be taken to increase the chances for success and will acquire information and discover proven techniques that are immediately applicable in both planning for and managing change.

Who Should Attend

This program was developed specifically for owners and principals of A/E firms in transition because of an acquisition or sale, or who are dealing with other significant changes in leadership, organizational structure or downsizing as well as interested managers of A/E firms who have completed mergers and want to ensure their efforts are a success post-transaction.

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