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Are you involved in planning a merger or acquisition or keen learn to learn more? Join Charlotte Talmage and Amy Tarrant BA(Hons), LL.B, MBA, LLM at 5pm on Thursday (27th Feb), who will host a conversation on how to balance a risk based and people-led approach during M&A - when thinking early about change becomes critical. Join on the link below. Everyone is welcome, it's free to attend, and we'd love to hear your M&A experiences on the call. https://lnkd.in/e9ex-gc6

Join us for our next online Change Collective event in February... With M&A activity surging - deals with UK targets are up 51% in value to $182bn in 2024 (London Stock Exchange Group) - acquiring firms face mounting pressure to deliver rapid integration and evidence the promised business case benefits to key stakeholders. But how can organisations reconcile the urgency of integration with the need to mitigate risk and deliver a people-led transition?   Join Charlotte Talmage, founder of Uuna and M&A programme and change specialist Amy Tarrant, for a webinar conversation.    We’ll share our bespoke people-centric and risk-based integration approach, collectively developed over many years of supporting post M&A integration. We’ll explore how organisations can plan and manage this critical balance of delivering on the business case benefits while meaningfully engaging impacted teams by prioritising cultural alignment and co-creation.   Why join us? ✅ Understand the importance of advance planning to integrating at pace whilst managing risk and without compromising people or culture. ✅ Learn how a risk-based integration strategy can accelerate benefits realisation. ✅ Get actionable tips to navigate complex M&A landscapes in 2025.   Who should attend? 🔹 M&A Professionals 🔹 Business Leaders and Executives 🔹 Change and Transformation Specialists 🔹 Insurance and Financial Services Professionals

Recently, we hosted The Collabor-a-thon – a dynamic brainstorming exercise in small groups, designed to generate and prioritise solutions to tackle big change challenges. One piece of feedback captured the essence of the event: “The process felt engaging, with the group ideas being greater than what individuals would have come up with alone.” It was a powerful reminder of how collaboration unlocks new possibilities and creates greater impact. The best solutions often emerge when we bring diverse perspectives together. And co-creation builds support for change. The magic lies in sharing insights, conversations, and a willingness to lean into collaboration - all in a time boxed way to get to answers quickly. Try this in your organisation: gather a diverse group with a clear problem to solve, in a time boxed way, gather insights about the challenge, generate options, and prioritise actions based on impact and effort/cost, and watch as fresh ideas and actionable strategies emerge. We’d love to share a copy of a problem solving canvas and instructions to help you to do this, please get in touch. How are you encouraging collaboration in your team? If you’re looking to connect with other change practitioners, have you joined our Change Collective community yet on WhatsApp? https://lnkd.in/e3qx9YvH Let us know your thoughts below – we’d love to hear from you!

We were Collboration-tastic last week...

Join us in person in London next Tuesday... Are you an independent consultant passionate about change? Join us for an energising evening where we’ll work together to tackle the year’s most pressing change challenges — collaboratively. Why attend? 💡 Experience a ‘Lean Change Hot Seat’ exercise Work in groups to generate and prioritise solutions to real-world change challenges. Leave with fresh insights and practical ideas you can apply in the organisations you work with. 🤝 Meet your peers and the Uuna team We’d love to get to know you better and explore how we might collaborate on assignments throughout 2025. What’s a 'Hot Seat'? It’s a dynamic, time-boxed brainstorming session where groups tackle challenges in real time — fun, fast, and impactful. Expect a wonderful atmosphere where you choose what to work on — from merging cultures post-M&A to setting up a transformation programme for success. 👉 Reserve your spot here: https://lnkd.in/ehRsj7qj Event details: 📅 Tuesday, 14 January 2025 📍 Location: Floor 6, Phoenix House, 18 King William St, London EC4N 7BP ⏰ Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM 💰 Cost: Free Really look forward to seeing you. #ChangePractitioners #LeanChange #Collaboration #UunaChangeCollective

It is with tremendous gratitude to everyone that we share our ‘wrap’ for the year. Thank you to our community, our wonderful clients and our fantastic consultants for enabling us to together, deliver positive change for positive lives. Wishing everyone a Happy Holidays and a well deserved break. It’s such a privilege to be on this journey together. We're channelling Spotify to celebrate...

Let’s kick off 2025 with impact – together! ✨ Are you an independent consultant passionate about change? Join us in London for an energising evening where we’ll work together to tackle the year’s most pressing change challenges — collaboratively. Why attend? 💡 Experience a ‘Lean Change Hot Seat’ exercise Work in groups to generate and prioritise solutions to real-world change challenges. Leave with fresh insights and practical ideas you can apply in the organisations you work with. 🤝 Meet your peers and the Uuna team We’d love to get to know you better and explore how we might collaborate on assignments throughout 2025. What’s a 'Hot Seat'? It’s a dynamic, time-boxed brainstorming session where groups tackle challenges in real time — fun, fast, and impactful. Expect a wonderful atmosphere where you choose what to work on — from merging cultures post-M&A to setting up a transformation programme for success. 👉 Reserve your spot here: https://lnkd.in/ehRsj7qj Event details: 📅 Tuesday, 14 January 2025 📍 Location: Floor 6, Phoenix House, 18 King William St, London EC4N 7BP ⏰ Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM 💰 Cost: Free We can’t wait to see you there! #ChangePractitioners #LeanChange #Collaboration #UunaChangeCollective #ChangeManagement #NetworkingEvent

At Uuna, as a proud BCorp pending, we are committed to balancing people, purpose, profit, and planet. As part of our 24/25 goals, we’ve pledged to share our passion for creating positive change experiences with the next generation. To support this, we provide paid time off for our consultants to give back in this way. Recently, Kiran Mistry, our Lead Scrum Master, delivered an insightful talk to around 100 Year 9 students, sharing his journey from being a Computer Science teacher to Automation Engineer to Scrum Master. Kiran emphasised the importance of soft skills - like great conversations to communicate, collaborate, and listen - essential for creating strong leaders. While the Q&A session started with curiosity about salaries (naturally 😄), it quickly shifted to meaningful discussion about ‘work-life’ balance and opportunities in IT and business change versus teaching. Kiran shared how ‘special it was to return to a classroom and feel the energy of shared learning and instant feedback’. ‘It’s moments like these that make getting out into our communities so worthwhile.’ Not just for students, but for those who inspire them. Here’s to supporting the next generation of leaders. 🌱 #Leadership #ChangeManagement #Education

Join the Uuna Change Collective Hi everyone, at Uuna we know it takes a village to deliver change, and believe in the power of community to create positive impact. That’s why we set up the Uuna Change Collective last year. Who’s it for? Our Change Maker Collective is a community for independent, brilliant practitioners working in business change to share ideas and advice, join discussion events and hear about job opportunities with Uuna. The group is free to join. We’ve been incredibly inspired by the community we’ve built together on Mighty Networks with people from all over the world, and we’ve loved hearing your stories and perspectives. 🌍

To make it easy to connect, we’ve decided to move the Change Maker Collective to WhatsApp. Our new WhatsApp community is designed to help across three streams: 💡 Knowledge sharing events: Engage in discussions virtually and in person to uncover new perspectives in change 💼 Work opportunities: Be the first to know about roles with Uuna and recommend others 📢 Ask for advice: Reach out to a supportive network when you need advice or just a friendly conversation You can choose which streams to join/you can mute others, so you stay connected without getting distracted by notifications. ✍️ You can join the Change Maker Collective here: https://lnkd.in/e3qx9YvH #ChangeCollective #PositiveImpact

We’re happy to share that we’ve recently completed our CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) disclosure – as part of our commitment to our clients, consultants and the communities we serve relating to sustainability and transparency. What is the CDP disclosure? 🤔 The CDP disclosure is a process where companies share detailed information about their environmental impact, such as how much energy they use, how much carbon they emit, and what they’re doing to protect the planet. 🌱 Why it matters to us: ✅ It reflects our commitment to the environment and our responsibility toward reducing our impact. ✅ It provides insights that help us make informed decisions to operate more sustainably. ✅ It strengthens trust with our clients by showing that we’re actively working on sustainability vs just talking about it. Happy Mondaying everyone. #Sustainability #CDP #ClimateAction