Louise Rogerson, CPO at law firm DWF, joins Felix to talk about what happens when a legal business goes from LLP to publicly traded to private equity backed - and what that means for the people function.Louise shares how she's transforming management capability in a profession that was never designed for it, why her team has seen an 80% year-on-year increase in grievances and a 100% increase in disciplinaries thanks to AI, and what she found when she tested one of the new AI legal platforms as a fake disgruntled employee!

Stuart Price, Chief People, Product & Transformation Officer at Zenith Vehicles, joins Louise to share what he learned from running both the people and technology functions - and why merging the two isn't as straightforward as the headlines suggest. Stuart also makes a compelling case for empowering leaders to make judgment calls rather than hiding behind policy, explains why inclusion shouldn't fall off the agenda just because the political mood has shifted, and shares how Zenith moved female senior leadership representation from under 10% to over 40% in five years.

Steph Evans Hill, People Director at William Jackson Food Group, joins Felix to talk about what it's really like to leave the corporate machine and join a sixth generation family business. After nearly two decades at the likes of Nestlé and PPG, Steph shares what she gained from big corporate, what she had to shed, and why building a high performance culture and treating people well aren't mutually exclusive. They also get into the advantage of thinking in decades rather than quarters, why family businesses need to stop being shy about their employer brand, and how to develop the seventh generation of family shareholders.