People-First M&A Integration

Make Your People Strategy the Strength of Your Deal

A 90-day sprint to align leadership, retain talent, and embed culture

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Who's the Sprint For?

We help founders, investors, and HR leaders protect value by aligning teams, culture, and leadership after acquisition.

This sprint is for you if:

You're closing or just closed an M&A deal
You want to retain key talent and avoid cultural chaos
You're a founder, investor, or HR leader managing post-deal change

Why I Built This Sprint

I'm Dylan, founder of PPL Consulting.

After over 15 years helping founders, investors, and scaleups navigate the human side of M&A, I built this sprint to fix the #1 reason integrations go wrong: poor people strategy.

This is the framework I wish every deal team had post-close - clear, focused, and built for momentum.

If you’ve just closed (or are about to), let’s make sure your people aren’t your biggest risk, and that they’re your biggest advantage.

About Me

What You Get

In just 90 days, we help you:

✅ Create a clear people integration roadmap

✅ Align founders and leaders post-deal

✅ Stabilize team structure and reporting

✅ Launch Day 1 communications with confidence

✅ Embed values, culture, and operating rhythms

✅ Retain top talent and reduce exit risk

How It Works

Weeks 8 - 12

Embed & Accelerate

Ensure momentum, track retention, course-correct as needed

Week 4

Launch Comms & Onboarding

Deploy messaging, assign early rituals, reinforce stability

Week 2

Leadership Alignment

Founder and leadership team clarity around structure and culture

Day 1

Kickoff & Risk Mapping

Identify key risks, people priorities, and integration timeline

Outcomes

By the end of 90 days, you'll have:

🎯 A confident, aligned leadership team

🎯 A stable post-deal org structure

🎯 A trusted narrative to unify teams

🎯 Early wins to build integration momentum

🎯 A real culture strategy in action

Pricing

Fixed-fee sprint: £35,000 - £50,000

Tailored to deal size and scope.

Multi-entity and multi-jurisdiction support available.

How Integration-Ready Is Your Deal?

Get the M&A People Integration Scorecard

Most M&A teams don’t realise the people piece is the biggest post-deal risk, until it’s too late.

This quick scorecard gives you:

A self-assessment across 6 critical people integration areas
A simple scoring system to identify risks and gaps
Immediate clarity on where to focus next

Just 12 questions. 10 minutes. No fluff.

Is The 90-Day Sprint Right For You?

📅 If you’ve got a deal in motion - or just wrapped one - we can walk through where the risks are, what’s working, and whether the 90-day sprint is a fit.

No pitch. Just a real conversation about what you want the next phase to look like.