Stay Talent

STAY is a People & Culture consultancy focused on the work most organizations struggle with — turning employee feedback into real action. We specialize in employee engagement, leadership capability, performance systems, and culture work that actually lands. No theatre. No overbuilt frameworks. No decks collecting dust. STAY supports scaling companies, founders, and People & Culture teams that need senior execution — without adding full-time overhead and without stretching internal teams thinner. What STAY delivers: Employee engagement cycles (design → rollout → analysis → exec briefs → action planning) Leadership & manager capability (coaching, expectations, tools, behaviour shaping) Performance systems (goal clarity, feedback systems, accountability structures) Culture clarity & trust (internal comms, change communication, diagnostics) Stay/exit interviews with pattern-level insight from 1,500+ conversations The STAY Diagnostic — a practical assessment of leadership, culture, and engagement drivers STAY is founded by Kelly MacCallum, a senior People & Culture leader and author of Stay and the upcoming No One Wants to F**king Work Here — candid, practical books on engagement, leadership, and fixing the root causes of disengagement. If you need your people work to stop living on the side of someone’s desk — and start driving real change — STAY helps you get it done.