We're not a training company. We just look like one.
We deal in behaviour change. Whether that's escape rooms, vishing calls, live incidents or large scale installations, we want people to experience security, not read about it. Because nobody has ever changes what they do because of a slide.
"It's not just training. It's an experience that genuinely changes behaviour."
Cyber Human Risk Manager, Scottish Power Energy Networks
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Where It Started
A Briefcase, a Kitchen Table, and a Grudge.
The grudge was with compliance training. Years of sitting in cyber companies watching organisations spend serious money on annual awareness modules that nobody remembered, policies that nobody read, and phishing tests that made people feel caught out rather than prepared.
The company itself was founded in 2021. In 2023, we became The Cyber Escape Room Co. and pointed ourselves at one problem.
That spring, we built a cyber escape room that lived in a briefcase. It was scrappy and rough and unlike anything else we'd seen a security team sit through. The ideas was simple: stop telling people about a breach and let them live one. Not observe it. Not memorise it. Live it.
The briefcase turned heads. Then it turned into a business worth a name. Today we design and deliver physical, digital and hybrid experiences for organisations on four continents. Same idea, bigger rooms.
We're not here to tick boxes. We're here to change what people do when the shit hits the fan.
2021
Company Founded
2023
New Name.
New mission.
NOW
Physical. Digital. hybrid.
Three Things We Won't Budge On.
01
Behaviour Change, Not Awareness
Knowing what a phishing email looks like doesn't stop anyone clicking it. Feeling the consequences does. We engineer the emotional memory, not the knowledge transfer.
02
Experience is the
Evidence
Emotionally encoded experiences are retained longer, recalled faster and applied under pressure. That isn't our opinion, it's the neuroscience. Our whole method is built on it.
03
No Slides. No Lectures. No Excuses.
If your security training can be watched at 2x speed, it isn't training. Ours can't be fast-forwarded, because your people are too busy trying to stop a breach in real time.
Amy Stokes-Waters
Founder & CEO
The Founder
Boring Training Isn't Harmless. It's a Risk.
Amy started the company on one conviction: cyber training doesn't need to be boring, and the fact that it is boring is actively making organisations less safe.
She spent her early career in sales and marketing at cyber companies with a front-row seat to the compliance theatre problem. Now she spends it on the other side, designing experiences that produce the reaction security teams almost never hear: "That was bloody brilliant!"
She speaks at conferences, hosts the When Nobody's Watching podcast, and wrote the book on engagement in immersive learning. She challenges the status quo on purpose. And, honestly, because she cannot physically help herself.
The Book
May I Have Your Attention, Please?
Why engagement is the whole game in immersive learning.
The Podcast
When Nobody's
Watching
What people actually do with security when no one's checking.
The Magic and the mayhem.
Mike Wager
Commercial Director
Over a decade in cyber sales. Mike runs commercial strategy on our biggest projects and turns complex briefs into real impact. Charm, clout, zero fluff.
Danielle Ford
Operations Manager
A decade in compliance at a global bank. Danielle runs ops, delivery and finance with calm precision, and keeps the chaos moving on time and on budget.
Michael Sage
Technology Director
Keeps our tech sharp, scalable and reliable. The steady hand behind the systems that make the wild ideas actualy work.
Rob Lancaster
Events Director
Forty years of event wizardry under his belt. If it needs building, moving, or making magical, Rob is the man to make it all happen.
We take cyber security seriously. Not ourselves.
Every event, every escape room, every game is built with obsessive attention to detail... and a fair bit of laughing, swearing, and "what the fuck just happened?!" moments behind the scenes. These are the outtakes they told us not to post. Because, yes, we're professional. Just not in a boring way.
THe People who keep us honest.
Amanda
stokes-waters
Strategy & Transformation
Three decades leading business transformation. Steers the strategic calls and keeps the big picture in focus.
Dane
Clackworthy
Commercial Strategy
Former Royal Marines officer and now Sales Director at Waterfall. Commercial accumen, OT expertise and leadership.
Anthony
Enoh
Product & AI
CEO of Enbros. Practical insight on product strategy, scale and user-centred development across full digital suite.
Keith
Price
Cyber Security
Former SecOps Director for US DoD, now CSO at National Highways. Governance, and strategic security direction.
Alan
Coo
Game & Experience Design
SecOps background meets serious escape-room pedigree. Sharpens our mechanics and keeps every game player-first.
Made in Yorkshire. Shipped worldwide.
Whether you're in Cardiff, California or Kathmandu, the chaos can find you. Tell us what your people need to rehearse and we'll come back to you with a plan.