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Engagement · M&A Cultural Integration · For US & global acquirers and sponsors

90-Day Integration Program

Get the first 90 days right, install the leadership behaviors and operating rhythm that turn your integration plan into year-one confidence.

Get the briefDiscuss fit
  • ForIntegration sponsors, acquired leadership, operating partners
  • Best whenRight after close or before the first integration cycle
  • EngagementAdvisory + facilitation sprint
  • DeliveryUS-India

Leaders trained from Goldman Sachs · Citi · Accenture · J&J · ExxonMobil · Wipro · Deloitte · 20+ yrs · 60+ ICF/SIETAR coaches.

Stakes

The problem this solves

Integration plans over-index on workstreams, and under-invest in the daily behaviors that actually carry them: how leaders make decisions together, how escalation works, how trust gets built across a new line and a time zone. When those stay vague, customer service slips, deadlines slide, and the year-one thesis is at risk before the synergies ever land.

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast." Peter Drucker. In the first 90 days, the behaviors you set become the culture you keep.

Signals you'll recognize

  • A detailed plan, but no agreed way leaders decide together.
  • Escalation and meeting cadence that nobody owns.
  • Acquired teams reading silence as a signal, and pulling back.
  • Avoidable trust gaps forming in the first few weeks.
Decision fit

Where this has leverage

Best used when there is a real operating moment, sponsor question, or leadership transition behind the request.

Strong fit

  • You're an integration sponsor, acquired leadership team, founder, HR leader, operating partner or cross-border workstream owner.
  • You're immediately after close, before the first integration cycle, or in need of a disciplined reset on early momentum.
  • You want clear 90-day priorities and a working rhythm leaders can actually run.
  • You care about leadership alignment when it matters most for year-one value.

Less useful when

  • You're looking for a PMO to run the workstreams, this supports the human-system behaviors that make the plan work.
  • The deal hasn't closed and there's no near-term integration window.
  • Leaders can't commit any time to working sessions in the first quarter.
What changes

What changes, and how we work.

How we startA 90-day integration intake, a stakeholder expectation map, a decision-rhythm review, and an early friction-signal scan.

Operating signals

  • Clear 90-day priorities and a working rhythm leaders can run.
  • A better meeting and escalation cadence.
  • Fewer avoidable trust gaps across the new line and time zone.
  • Stronger leadership alignment when it matters most.
  • The behaviors that make the integration plan actually work, installed early.

Delivery model An advisory + facilitation sprint supporting leadership alignment, operating rhythm and communication norms, with sponsor check-ins. It supports the behaviors that make the plan work; it's not a PMO. Durations, pricing and deliverables are scoped in the brief.

Proof

Why leaders choose AptCulture for this.

Over two decades on the US-India corridor · 60+ certified coaches & facilitators (ICF, SIETAR) · Wiley Authorized Partner, Everything DiSC® · Women-Owned / Minority-Owned.

Leaders we've trained come from

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  • Goldman Sachs logo

Client pattern

A global IT-services firm acquiring a startup: revenue defended, escalations cleared in ~12 weeks.

Business context

post-acquisition cultural insecurity tanked customer service and deadlines; acquired employees felt undervalued and saw process as obstruction.

How we helped

a cultural gap analysis, DISC-based transition communication, the 3Cs group training, and executive + group coaching.

Operating signal

client escalations resolved in a record ~12 weeks; projected annual revenue protected.

sponsor confidence, leadership alignment, escalation quality and meeting rhythm, with integration signal checks agreed up front.

Connected work

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FAQ

Program FAQ

A confidential, no-obligation conversation

Plan your first 90 days

A 30-minute fit conversation and the 2-page brief, set the rhythm before the integration window does.

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Where does your corridor stand?

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