A clear deck and a confident announcement don't decide whether change takes hold. Whether people believe it does.
Every Stacked change event starts with the people who have to live it, not the message that announces it.
What people currently believe. What they think they stand to lose. What has to be true for them to back the new direction rather than wait it out. Once those are answered, the venue, the running order and the room all fall into place around them.
That order changes everything. How the news is broken. Who says it, and in what order. The space left for the questions nobody wants to ask out loud. The way the room is built so people leave ready to move, not just informed.It's the difference between change that's understood and change that's believed.
The announcement looks the same. What happens in the months after is not. Stacked starts with the people on the other side of the change, not the slide that announces it.
A restructure, a new operating model, a new strategy. The moment a business asks people to work differently and needs them to understand why before they will commit to how. Get it right and the change has momentum from day one. Get it wrong and you spend the next year managing resistance.
Two companies, two cultures, one room, still carrying different histories and different reasons to be sceptical. M&A is where engagement is most at risk, and the first shared moment sets the tone for the whole integration. This is our home territory: the day two companies start to feel like one.
A new CEO, a new leadership team, a change at the top. The moment a leader has to earn the room before they can lead it. Stacked builds the platform that helps a new leader land with credibility, not just get introduced.
New values, a new brand, a new way of working. The moment a business has to make a shift feel real to the people inside it, not just rebranded on a slide. We design the moment where a new identity gets lived, not announced.
A winter celebration that brought a remote team back together, marked the year's progress, and left the kind of energy people still talk about.
Two days off-site for a fast-scaling team. Honest conversations, a shared direction, and the trust to move quicker once everyone was back.
After a year of change and hybrid working, a culture moment that reminded people what they are part of, and why it matters.
Team events are one of the moments where people need clarity, connection and momentum.
Most agencies start with the format and work back to the message. Stacked starts with the people who have to live the change and works out. The brief comes before the booking. We design for what people need to believe and do on the other side of the announcement, not just how the day looks. It's the difference between change that gets understood and change that actually takes hold.
Transformation and change programmes, mergers and acquisitions, post-merger integration, leadership change, and culture or identity shifts. From a single high-stakes announcement to a programme of moments that carry a business through a long transition. Anything where something significant is shifting and the people have to land on the other side of it.
Change and transformation events typically run from around £40k for a focused leadership or announcement moment to £250k+ for a company-wide transformation programme. The variables are scale, audience size, production complexity and how many moments the change needs. Once we know what the change has to achieve, we can give a directional read on what to plan for.
Yes, and it's some of the work we know best. A merger doesn't combine two workforces, it puts them in one room still carrying different loyalties. We design the first shared moment that starts two companies feeling like one, and the moments after it that keep the integration on track.
Three to six months out for a company-wide transformation or integration moment, sooner if the change is already in motion. The strongest briefs reach us early, while the message is still forming. That's often where we add the most value, before the format is locked and the room is booked.
No. The strategy and the message belong to leadership and the business. Stacked builds the moment that helps the message land, the leaders come across credibly, and the room leave ready to move. We're the agency that designs the moment around what's been decided, not a change-management consultancy.
Much of this work is. We're used to working under NDA, on announcements that haven't broken yet, with information that can only be shared on a need-to-know basis. Discretion is part of the brief, and we plan the moment around what can and can't be said, and when.
Full delivery. Brief development, narrative design, leadership coaching, venue, AV, production, content review, supplier coordination, on-the-day delivery and post-event continuation. One team, one point of contact, the whole moment handled.
London is home. Most of our work runs here or within easy reach. We deliver across the UK, and internationally when the change calls for it, including events that have to reach a workforce spread across countries. The location matters less than what the moment is built to achieve.
