Quantifying People Risk in M&A: The Business Case for Mitigation

As global M&A activity continued to rebound through 2025, the cumulative impact of deal execution risk has grown as well. Most M&A leaders would agree that people and culture are critical to value creation—yet these risks are often assessed inconsistently, and mitigation plans are not specific enough to protect deal value. In our webinar on February 18, 2026, we explore how to quantify people risk and build a clear business case for targeted mitigation.

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“We had high expectations.” How do you deliver the full deal-thesis value, rather than watching it fall short or erode during execution? Can you achieve synergies while maintaining (and ideally increasing) the standalone value of the business? Even when integration ultimately succeeds, you often still face challenges such as unwanted attrition and productivity dips. How do you quantify the impact?

When you invest millions or billions of dollars, you need a robust plan for deal strategy and execution: the value drivers, the risks, and how those risks will be mitigated. That requires fluency in both people and numbers.

With our People Impact Analytics® solution, we have been analyzing M&A situations for years through the employee-experience lens—using data, behavioral science, and AI to identify drivers of success and failure. In this webinar, we’ll focus on the business case: how to quantify the impact of people risk, what the expected costs and savings can look like, and how mitigation is likely to pay off.

This webinar is designed for M&A professionals, CFOs and COOs, HR experts, business leaders, and change and integration teams who want to lead M&A successfully—from due diligence to integration—by explicitly factoring in the human element.

Gain insights from Petri Järvinen, CEO and Partner at NayaDaya Analytics Inc., and Timo Salomäki, Partner at NayaDaya Analytics Inc., as they host this engaging webinar in English.

Petri Järvinen

CEO & Partner

Timo Salomäki

Product, Partner, Chairman

The webinar was held on February 18, 2026.

Thank you for attending!