Klint Kendrick

Klint Kendrick

Senior Director, Mergers & Acquisitions and Workforce Transitions
Walmart

Klint Kendrick, Ph.D., SPHR is a sought-after expert on issues of people, leadership, and culture in M&A. He has worked on more than 150 public and private mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and divestitures, making him a respected authority in the field. 

His presentations on the human side of M&A have been heard by HR and Corporate Development leaders at high-profile events sponsored by The Conference Board, Mercer, Willis Towers Watson, Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg BNA, and McKinsey.

Klint wrote The HR Practitioner’s Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions Due Diligence and The HR Practitioner’s Guide to Cultural Integration in Mergers & Acquisitions, which provide approaches to identifying, assessing, and mitigating the most vexing issues that arise in M&A.

Klint leads the HR M&A practice at Walmart and has led M&A teams at Boeing, Oracle, SC Johnson, and an Ali-Baba backed startup. Dr. Kendrick also chairs the HR M&A Roundtable, a peer-learning forum for HR professionals working on M&As.