About Us

The M&A Leadership Council is a global organization of diverse individuals from the biggest, most experienced companies in their domain. They have risen to the top of the M&A Community with a passion to share their experiences and expertise with M&A professionals and organizations involved in corporate growth, consolidation, restructuring and divestitures.

A Message from our Chairman

On behalf of the Leadership Council’s Advisory Board, Board of Standards and our Sponsor Partners, we welcome you to help us improve the outcomes for the M&A Community.

We all know that for decades more than half of transactions fail to achieve the value promised by management. Together must identify best practices, establish standards for training and certification and provide methods, tools and expertise to the M&A community across the globe. We seek to acquire and share the best of M&A related knowledge and experience with companies and their practitioners who look to establish internal capabilities in the M&A lifecycle, from strategy to integration and beyond.

Just as in golf, the M&A swing has many moving parts, requires knowledge of the rules and a lot of practice before you approach the first tee. You must first master the fundamentals:

• Alignment and direction

• Selecting the right club

• Right stance, take-away, turn and follow-through.

Oh, and did I mention the grip and keeping your head down and still? It can be very complex for a beginner as well as a master depending on the course you select to play.

So it is with growth by acquisitions. In most cases today, the target hasn’t been properly assessed and the skills, equipment and true knowledge of the game remain absent.

The M&A Leadership Council is dedicated to ensuring the maximum value creation for any merger or acquisition is fully realized. Decades of dismal results from M&A growth have been well documented. The M&A Leadership Council is tasked with changing the game by uncovering the things that work and galvanizing best practices into repeatable processes for the M&A community to share. To this end, our mission is to bring together successful acquirers', practitioners, noted authors and trusted advisors so that everyone can benefit from shared experience, skills and knowledge.

The M&A Leadership Council represents the best of Knowledge Sharing, Practice Assessment Services, Training and Advisory Services a growth organization can receive. Through our advisory board, and partner companies, we intend to identify, measure, monitor and distribute the best practices available in the M&A space. We look forward to having you join us in the most fascinating and challenging arena in the business world…..The Art of M&A.

Jim Jeffries