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The Practice — Advisory

The window is open
for exactly 100 days.

Every acquisition that closes creates a new organisation that does not yet know itself. The advisory practice exists to work in that window — before the patterns that determine integration success have calcified.

Arm One
Advisory

Every acquisition that closes creates a new organisation that does not yet know itself.

The leadership it has inherited has not been tested under the new ownership model. The culture has not been articulated, let alone chosen. The decision rights that will govern the next two years of the business have not been designed — and the 100-day window in which they should be is closing faster than most integration plans allow for.

The advisory practice addresses that gap at the moment of most leverage: before the first town hall, before the leadership team has formed its judgements, before the patterns that determine integration success have calcified. Work is structured around the N.E.W. CO.™ Framework — built from two decades of direct integration experience on both sides of the acquisition table — and runs from the first diagnostic through to governance design and integration health measurement. The practice is retained by PE operating partners and deployed alongside newly appointed portfolio company CEOs who are navigating the critical first 100 days.

The Methodology

The N.E.W. CO.™
Framework

A proprietary five-phase methodology for post-acquisition leadership integration. The sequence is not arbitrary — each phase depends on the one before it.

“You cannot weave two cultures before you have evaluated what you actually have. You cannot co-create governance on top of unresolved identity conflict. The order is the insight.”

N
Navigate
Stakeholder and influence mapping

Understanding the terrain — formal and informal — before a single action is taken.

Output
Stakeholder & Influence Map
E
Evaluate
Leadership integration risk scoring

An honest assessment of what you actually have, not what the deal deck said.

Output
Leadership Integration Risk Score
W
Weave
Identity and culture alignment

Two organisations becoming one — shared purpose, shared language, chosen deliberately.

Output
New Co. Leadership Charter
C
Co-Create
Governance design

Decision rights, accountability structures, and integration milestones built on real alignment.

Output
Integration Operating Model
O
Optimise
Embedding, coaching, measurement

Making the integration hold over time, with the data to know whether it is holding.

Output
Integration Health Dashboard
How we work together
01

Leadership Integration Diagnostic

Recommended entry point
3–4 weeks

Executive interviews, cultural and risk mapping, and a written diagnostic that gives the PE board a clear picture of integration risk — before patterns calcify.

02

100-Day Integration Programme

3–4 months

Flagship engagement. Full N.E.W. CO.™ Framework delivery across all five phases — Navigate, Evaluate, Weave, Co-Create, Optimise — embedded throughout the critical first 100 days.

03

CEO & Board Advisory Retainer

Ongoing

Monthly retained advisory for CEOs and boards inside live or maturing integrations. Leadership team issues, board communication, integration risk, and escalation support.

“The right starting point depends on your situation. The best way to determine that is a conversation.”

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