M&A Science Live - 220 Deals. One Playbook. How to Scale M&A Without Losing Control

​Most teams hit a wall around deal number ten. Not because the deals get harder-because the operating model never scaled with the volume. Diligence slips. Communication breaks down. Integration quality varies from deal to deal. And suddenly you're managing risk instead of creating value.

​Shawn Rodricks has been on the other side of that wall. As a former VP of Corporate Development at AmeriVet Veterinary Partners, he led 189 acquisitions. Before that, 37 at Rexall. He built lean, high-output M&A engines where the playbook was the operating system and integration started before anyone signed anything.

‍What You'll Learn

• ​How to structure the people side of a high-volume M&A function-what you're actually hiring for and why most teams get it wrong
• ​What a real operating playbook looks like in practice: what's in it, how it gets updated, and how you get the whole organization to actually use it
• ​How to manage deal bunching-when five closings land in the same month and your team and finance are both stretched
• ​Why most roll-up programs underinvest in qualitative diligence and what that costs them post-close
• ​How to build pre- and post-close success factor lists with named accountabilities so nothing falls through
• ​The early indicators that a deal is going sideways-before the numbers confirm it