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.

Emma Tolhurst, independent consultant specialising in culture, communications, and transformation, joins Felix to explore the concept of the human library - and why most organisations are sitting on a goldmine of generational knowledge they're not tapping into. From reverse mentoring programmes that cost nothing to scale, to why AI is consuming transformation bandwidth at the expense of more human priorities, Emma makes a compelling case for putting knowledge transfer back at the heart of people strategy.

Emmy Rumble-Mettle, VP of People and Culture at Aristocrat, joins Louise to explore a model that could change the way you think about every interaction at work. The transactional analysis framework - parent, adult or child - is a simple idea with profound implications for power dynamics, conflict, and how leaders show up. Emmy also gets into why burnout has become so normalised, why boundaries have all but disappeared since the pandemic, and what happens when you democratise power at the top of an organisation. An honest, energising conversation from someone who's spent 20-plus years being enchanted by people.

Sophie Tolley, VP of People and Culture for EMEA at RES, joins Felix to explore what a career in HR actually looks like in 2026, and where it's heading. From how grad roles are being reshaped by AI to the reality of working four days a week while staying ambitious, Sophie shares an honest take on trade-offs, career breaks, and why the organisations cutting entry-level HR roles now are storing up succession gaps for later. They also get into the Gartner HR operating model and what changes when you separate strategic partnering from operations.

Janine Chamberlin, VP Talent Solutions & UK Country Manager at LinkedIn, joins Felix to cut through the doom and gloom around the jobs market. Yes, UK hiring is down 24% on pre-pandemic levels - but the full picture is far more nuanced than the headlines suggest. Janine shares what LinkedIn's data actually shows about where the new jobs are, why small businesses are completely bucking the trend, and why AI fluency paired with human skills is the power couple every employer is looking for. A must-listen for anyone in talent, or anyone advising a young person on what to do next.

Simon Russell, Instant Impact's Head of AI and Data, joins Felix to lift the lid on what large language models actually are, why they're brilliant at conversation but terrible at maths, and what that means for how organisations should be thinking about AI adoption. With 16 years of experience across the Ministry of Defence, EY, and a Google spin-off, Simon breaks down the rise of agentic AI, why the businesses with the best process documentation are pulling ahead, and why "context governance" is about to become the most important organisational competency nobody's heard of yet.