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90-Day Integration Program

Get the first 90 days right — install the leadership behaviors and operating rhythm that turn your integration plan into year-one confidence.

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  • ForIntegration sponsors, acquired leadership, operating partners
  • Best whenRight after close or before the first integration cycle
  • EngagementAdvisory + facilitation sprint
  • DeliveryUS–India

Leaders trained from Goldman Sachs · Citi · Accenture · J&J · ExxonMobil · Wipro · Deloitte · 20+ yrs · 60+ ICF/SIETAR coaches.

Stakes

The problem this solves

Integration plans over-index on workstreams — and under-invest in the daily behaviors that actually carry them: how leaders make decisions together, how escalation works, how trust gets built across a new line and a time zone. When those stay vague, customer service slips, deadlines slide, and the year-one thesis is at risk before the synergies ever land.

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast." — Peter Drucker. In the first 90 days, the behaviors you set become the culture you keep.

Signals you'll recognize

  • A detailed plan, but no agreed way leaders decide together.
  • Escalation and meeting cadence that nobody owns.
  • Acquired teams reading silence as a signal — and pulling back.
  • Avoidable trust gaps forming in the first few weeks.
Decision fit

Where this has leverage

Best used when there is a real operating moment, sponsor question, or leadership transition behind the request.

Strong fit

  • You're an integration sponsor, acquired leadership team, founder, HR leader, operating partner or cross-border workstream owner.
  • You're immediately after close, before the first integration cycle, or in need of a disciplined reset on early momentum.
  • You want clear 90-day priorities and a working rhythm leaders can actually run.
  • You care about leadership alignment when it matters most for year-one value.

Less useful when

  • You're looking for a PMO to run the workstreams — this supports the human-system behaviors that make the plan work.
  • The deal hasn't closed and there's no near-term integration window.
  • Leaders can't commit any time to working sessions in the first quarter.
What changes

What changes — and how we work.

How we startA 90-day integration intake, a stakeholder expectation map, a decision-rhythm review, and an early friction-signal scan.

Operating signals

  • Clear 90-day priorities and a working rhythm leaders can run.
  • A better meeting and escalation cadence.
  • Fewer avoidable trust gaps across the new line and time zone.
  • Stronger leadership alignment when it matters most.
  • The behaviors that make the integration plan actually work, installed early.

Delivery model An advisory + facilitation sprint supporting leadership alignment, operating rhythm and communication norms — with sponsor check-ins. It supports the behaviors that make the plan work; it's not a PMO. Durations, pricing and deliverables are scoped in the brief.

Proof

Why leaders choose AptCulture for this.

Over two decades on the US–India corridor · 60+ certified coaches & facilitators (ICF, SIETAR) · Wiley Authorized Partner, Everything DiSC® · Women-Owned / Minority-Owned.

Leaders we've trained come from

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  • Goldman Sachs logo

Client pattern

A global IT-services firm acquiring a startup — revenue defended, escalations cleared in ~12 weeks.

Business context

post-acquisition cultural insecurity tanked customer service and deadlines; acquired employees felt undervalued and saw process as obstruction.

How we helped

a cultural gap analysis, DISC-based transition communication, the 3Cs group training, and executive + group coaching.

Operating signal

client escalations resolved in a record ~12 weeks; projected annual revenue protected.

sponsor confidence, leadership alignment, escalation quality and meeting rhythm — with integration signal checks agreed up front.

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FAQ

Program FAQ

A confidential, no-obligation conversation

Plan your first 90 days

A 30-minute fit conversation and the 2-page brief — set the rhythm before the integration window does.

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