Dear Colleague,

The Managing Partners’ Forum's new People, Performance and Culture group presents the ‘The Future Workplace’ series of programmes. These programmes will examine the key factors that are driving change, and the real-world approaches that are being developed and adopted. 

In this first session, we take a practical look at the positive and negative impacts of disruption, and how firms and individuals are evolving their people strategies to adapt and thrive.  

Practical futurist Andrew Grill shares his actionable insights working with large and small companies around the world.  Deborah Gray, co-founder and Director of Totum, shares her observations of professional firms, and candidates’ priorities over the last three years as the sector undergoes transformational change.  

We hope you can join us.

Kind regards

The People, Performance and Culture Committee
Sarah Draper, Clint Evans, Alicia Millar, Julia Paulding and Steve Saville

Speaker profiles

Andrew Grill

Practical Futurist

Andrew is a highly respected consultant delivering multimillion £/$ strategic digital transformation programmes to global clients, in addition to being a much in-demand speaker and consultant. A former Global Managing Partner at IBM, Andrew has launched and run technology companies in Europe and Australia and worked with and for some of the world’s leading companies including Vodafone, Telstra, Nestle, BBC, American Express, John Lewis, and Unilever.

Deborah Gray

Director, Totum

Deborah is one of the three founding directors of Totum. In the years she has worked in legal recruitment, Deborah has seen business services teams develop to the point where the best management professionals are now top law firm decision makers. Before Totum, she joined the law firm management division of recruitment firm First Counsel in 2005 and prior to this, spent five years with law firm, Herbert Smith, in HR management and recruitment.

Moderator: Sarah Draper

HR Director, Gerald Eve

Sarah has been working with the partners to deliver on the business and people strategy, whilst supporting the organisation day to day. Sarah started her career at Thomson Reuters before transferring to the professional services sector, where she worked for two law firms, including Mayer Brown. Sarah is a fellow of the CIPD.

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