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HR Questions in Small Business M&A (pre-and-post-acquisition)


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HR is essential to the mix when it comes to evaluating, acquiring, and operating a small business. On this Private Market Insights episode, we're talking with Jacquelyn Valek about identifying and managing HR risk in the acquisition process and post-close. She's the Founder and President of Anchor Solutions Consulting, a firm dedicated to helping organizations manage tricky HR issues.


Anchor Solutions Consulting, LLC (ASC) offers a wide variety of practical HR solutions tailored to fit any mid to small-sized organization. Partnering with ASC allows your organization to capitalize on HR expertise without the overhead and expense of an employee/resource. Jackie began working for the family business, Tesar Industrial Contractor, in 2003. This experience, as part of an entrepreneurial trek, turned into a steady "tee up" and launch toward her passion—human resources. Fast forward to the present. Now an experienced Human Resource professional, Jackie drives cultural change through diverse industries using her three "P" concepts:

  • Performance development
  • Promoting healthy relations
  • Process efficiency
  • Her experience also includes working in friendly tandem with sizable organizations across various industries. Jackie’s expertise reaches deep and wide as she manages employee and labor relations at both the corporate and field level. Much to Jacquelyn’s delight, her colleagues consider her a bit of a subject-matter expert, and with good reason. She holds nearly 17 years of both practical business experience and formal learning.​

    Join us in this insightful conversation with Jackie by listening to this episode!

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