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Everything is changing! Hosted by Felix Mitchell and Louise Fraser, We Need to Talk About… brings together HR and AI. In one feed, we explore how growing businesses are evolving people practices and adopting AI to meet new expectations, new ways of working, and rapid change.
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Big Corporate Toolkit, Family Business Heart with Steph Evans Hill (opens the original)
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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 famil
Your Workforce Is a Library... Start Using It! With Emma Tolhurst (opens the original)
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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
Parent, Adult or Child - Which One Are You at Work? with Emy Rumble-Mettle (opens the original)
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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
The HR Career Playbook Has Changed - Here's What Comes Next with Sophie Tolley (opens the original)
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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 yo
The Jobs Market Isn't Dying, It's Being Reimagined with Janine Chamberlin (opens the original)
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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
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