How to Avoid the Acquisition Graveyard
Why Good Deals Go Dark — and How to Keep Acquisitions Delivering Value Past Year One
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What you’ll learn
- Diagnose strategic drift patterns and identify warning signs before deals become zombies
- Build strategic anchoring systems that maintain deal coherence across stakeholder transitions
- Design Year 2+ governance models that sustain value capture without Day 1 intensity
- Apply recovery frameworks to recalibrate stalled deals—or make the explicit decision to pivot or close
Who is this course for
This course is for senior M&A and integration leaders who have done everything right — rigorous diligence, solid integration planning — and still watched an acquisition lose momentum by Year 2 or 3. If you're responsible for tracking value realization across a portfolio of deals, managing executive attention across multiple integrations, or trying to figure out why last year's priority acquisition is this year's quiet problem, this workshop gives you the framework to diagnose drift before it becomes a write-off.
Instructor
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Gwen Pope is the founder of Tiger Team M&A, bringing 20+ years experience in enterprise M&A, in corporate development, integration management, and M&A advisory leadership roles at Google, Microsoft, eBay, and other serial acquirers. She is currently CEO and co-founder of Tiger Team M&A, a vertical AI solution provider enabling repeatable deal ROI through M&A operational excellence.
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Have any questions?
The Intelligence Hub is where M&A practitioners access Buyer-Led M&A™ playbooks, frameworks, templates, and real-world insights from experienced deal leaders. Courses are taught by practitioners who've run deals — not academics or advisors. Topics include integration planning, due diligence, deal sourcing, valuation, and more.
The Intelligence Hub is available 24/7 through your M&A Science membership. Access them on-demand at your pace, on any device.
It depends on where you are in your M&A journey. If you're building foundational knowledge, start with the M&A Fundamentals Track — five courses covering the full deal lifecycle from sourcing through integration. If you're already running deals and want to build a repeatable, scalable process, explore the Buyer-Led M&A™ Certification. New courses are added regularly as we deepen the curriculum.
