CALIBR Career Care™ · Executive briefing

Thriving
Through M&A™

Executive Maturity + Executive Adaptability Through Organizational Integration

Prepared for

Kellanova / KAARG + Mars

Prepared by

CALIBR Global Leadership Network™

September 2026

The merger changes the organization. The crucible changes the leader.

+MARS

01 · The leadership moment

M&A is a developmental crucible.

It does not simply test what an executive knows; it reveals who the executive becomes when role, contribution, influence, relationships, identity, and certainty are simultaneously in motion.

A trusted partnership meets a new leadership moment.

CALIBR and Kellogg/Kellanova have built a long-running relationship across KAARG programming, sponsorship, executive development, coaching, assessments, speakers, and cohort-based leadership experiences. This is the next chapter: helping leaders thrive while organizational structure, power, contribution, and identity are in motion.

Interpret organizational disruption without collapsing into self-protection or passive waiting.

Strengthen judgment, perspective, trade-offs, and self-regulation under consequential conditions.

Shift the career conversation from Role to Contribution: not simply where a leader lands, but what becomes possible because they are there.

02 · The proposition

Read the transition. Recalibrate contribution. Move the enterprise forward.

The experience is designed for the interval between the public announcement and the hardening of the future organization—when leaders are being evaluated, repositioned, and selected for what comes next.

Executive Maturity

Better judgment, perspective, and self-regulation under consequential conditions.

Executive Adaptability

The capacity to reshape thinking, contribution, relationships, positioning, and leadership as conditions change.

Enterprise value

Individual development connected to cohort intelligence, integration capacity, and visible value creation.

03 · Experience architecture

REMAP in Motion

A deliberately abbreviated throughline demonstrates the rigor of the work while preserving the depth of the full curriculum and CALIBR’s proprietary methodology.

REMAP™

Recalibrate. Realign. Move Forward.

01
The Merger Is Public. Now What?
Read before you react.
02
Shape Your Landing
Position for contribution.
03
Read the New Organization
Map the real organization.
04
Reauthor Your Contribution + Recalibrate Upward
Adapt how you add value.
05
Rebuild Your Influence Network + Translate the New Strategy
Orchestrate influence. Create value.
06
Expand Your Leadership Range + Lead the Emerging Enterprise
Become more capable through change.

04 · Two ways in

Choose the depth that matches the moment.

Both pathways use the same strategic lens. The difference is the amount of applied practice, peer sensemaking, and sponsor-visible output created in the room.

Option 1

2-Hour Workshop

Thriving Through M&A: Shape Your Contribution Under Pressure

A concentrated strategic workshop that helps KAARG leaders read the transition, recognize their response under pressure, and position their contribution in the emerging enterprise.

Core experience

—Read what is changing
—Recognize contraction versus expansion
—Clarify contribution
—Identify one visible strategic move

Participant outputs

—Current-Stance Reflection
—Contribution Positioning Statement
—Personal Value-Creation Checkpoint
—One visible 30-day next move

Recommended depth

Option 2

4-Hour Executive Maturity + Adaptability Lab

Thriving Through M&A: Executive Maturity + Adaptability Lab

A deeper applied experience that adds peer sensemaking, organizational savvy, influence, and value-creation practice.

Core experience

—Read the emerging system
—Expand perspective through Self, Others, and Enterprise
—Examine influence, relationships, and stakeholder movement
—Recalibrate contribution
—Convert insight into a 30-day value-creation move

Participant outputs

—Transition Leadership Map
—Multi-Frame Leadership challenge map
—Contribution Recontracting Canvas
—Influence + Relationship Map
—Value-Creation Checkpoint
—30-Day Value-Creation Experiment

05 · Partnership benefit

Extend the work beyond the live session.

A workshop can stand alone—or become an entry point into a broader leadership-development ecosystem for serious-minded leaders building readiness, relationships, adaptability, and sustained career agency.

CALIBR Career Care Assessment Support

“Select program assessments may be administered through the CALIBR Career Care platform, giving participants a structured way to establish a baseline, reflect on development, and track progress. Kellanova / KAARG participants receive access at a preferred Founding Partner rate.”

06 · Return on the experience

Value compounds at three levels.

The experience is designed to create value simultaneously for the individual leader, the KAARG / HIPO cohort, and the organization—so the developmental investment is visible beyond the room.

Individual Leader

Greater clarity
Stronger positioning
Broader leadership range
Greater agency
Executive Maturity
Executive Adaptability
Value-creation capability

KAARG / HIPO Cohort

Collective intelligence
Cross-enterprise connections
Shared sensemaking
Peer challenge + support
Distributed leadership capacity
Adaptability network
Cross-functional value creation

III

Organization

Integration capacity
Stronger bench strength
Strategic alignment
Performance continuity
Better leadership judgment
Organizational adaptability
Greater value realization

Use the disruption not merely to find your place in the new organization, but to become more capable of leading whatever comes next.

07 · Investment

A clear path from focused activation to full-depth lab.

Each configuration is designed to stand on its own. Enhanced options add diagnostic insight and sponsor-level follow-through; the 4-Hour Enhanced Lab is the recommended configuration for meaningful developmental depth.

2-Hour Core Workshop

$20,000

—Customization call
—Live facilitation
—Digital workbook/tools
—Post-session resource packet

2-Hour Enhanced Workshop

$25,000

—Everything in Core
—Pre-session Organizational Savvy/current-stance pulse
—De-identified cohort insight summary
—45-minute sponsor debrief

4-Hour Core Lab

$30,000

—Customization call
—Applied half-day facilitation
—Signature tools
—Live exercises
—Field-move planning
—Post-session resources

Recommended

4-Hour Enhanced Lab

$37,500

—Everything in Core
—Pre-session pulse
—De-identified cohort insight summary
—60-minute sponsor debrief
—60-minute cohort follow-up lab approximately 30 days later

Founding Partner Assessment Access

Kellanova / KAARG participants may access selected CALIBR Career Care assessments at a preferred Founding Partner rate, extending the workshop beyond the live session with structured diagnostics, reflection, and development insights. Assessment selection and participant volume are confirmed with the final workshop configuration.

Optional individual executive coaching

$6,700 per participant. Travel, lodging, and on-site production, if required, are additional.

08 · Recommendation

Make the First Move Easy to Fund — and Easy to Expand.

Recommend the 4-Hour Executive Maturity + Adaptability Lab when Kellanova / KAARG wants meaningful developmental depth, shared cohort intelligence, and tangible outputs.

Recommended configuration

4-Hour Enhanced Lab

The stronger choice when the goal is to turn a live transition into applied leadership practice, a shared cohort intelligence asset, and a sponsor-visible field move.

Also right for the moment

2-hour workshop

Ideal for broad access, summits, or a high-impact leadership activation within a tighter agenda.

09 · Next steps

Turn the recommendation into a first move.

A focused configuration conversation will translate the leadership moment into the right participant experience, delivery plan, and sponsor readout.

01 · Context

CALIBR is a trusted, longstanding partner to Kellogg/Kellanova and KAARG. This proposal is the next chapter of that relationship during the Kellanova-to-Mars transition.

02 · Focus

The experience connects individual development to cohort intelligence and enterprise value creation without exposing the full proprietary curriculum.

03 · Scope

Pricing assumes one live delivery and is subject to final scope, participant volume, delivery mode, and scheduling.

1Confirm preferred duration and configuration
2Confirm audience, participant count, mode, and target date
3Align on the Kellanova / KAARG integration realities for live application
4Finalize facilitation, communications, diagnostics, and sponsor readout

Begin the configuration conversation