Culture Integration Strategy for International M&As: Lessons Learned
In a 2013 Deloitte survey, 51% of American CEOs identified “achieving culture fit” as the greatest human capital challenge and risk in an M&A. When an M&A involves companies from two or more countries, organizational culture challenges are compounded by national business culture differences. This session will share lessons learned as well as strategies for how you can position yourself as an integral part of the strategy process, making sure that vital human capital elements are just as prioritized as the financial aspects of the integration.
Denise Pirrotti Hummel, J.D.
Denise Pirrotti Hummel, J.D., is a Human Capital Principal at EY, where she leads national culture integration and optimization across the globe. She is the former CEO and Founder of Universal Consensus, LLC, a culture transformation firm.
Her team helps clients improve global business results and build lasting performance by enhancing corporate, national, gender and generational culture, key components of enterprise financial success. In addition to serving clients, she leads a team of 40 engineers, computer scientists, curriculum specialists and researchers that operationalize EY’s global culture tools used for H.R. transformation and M&A culture integration.
Hummel is a member of the prestigious U.S. State Department Worldwide Speaker and Specialist Program and a speaker on culture and change management at SHRM 2013 and SHRM 2014. She has consulted for a myriad of Fortune 100 companies in every sector, as well as the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon.
Prior to founding Universal Consensus, Hummel was an attorney practicing commercial and employment law, and D&I internationally. That experience has enabled her to effectively link a client’s HR and cultural considerations with the overall enterprise risk management impacts. Denise was recognized by the American Bar Association as one of the top twenty young attorneys in the United States in 1992. She is a published author and speaks multiple languages.