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Hosted by Felix Mitchell and Louise Fraser · business · EN · 154 episodes
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. Expect honest conversations with HR leaders, tech experts, and scaling SMEs using AI to enhance human capability. No hype, just real solutions for real businesses. New episodes every Thursday.
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Signup to Generate a PitchEverything 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.
We Need to Talk About... is hosted by Felix Mitchell and Louise Fraser. The show has published 154 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Open the Door - Why HR Shouldn’t Be a Closed Office with Eve-Lynn Ansley" (22 October 2026, 26 minutes), "Know the Rules, Know When to Break Them with Stuart Price" (1 October 2026, 35 minutes), and "Big Corporate Toolkit, Family Business Heart with Steph Evans Hill" (24 September 2026, 28 minutes).
We Need to Talk About... publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 154 episodes.
Booking probability for We Need to Talk About... is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. We Need to Talk About... requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. We Need to Talk About...'s contact route on record: verified email.
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Felix Mitchell and Louise Fraser hosts We Need to Talk About..., a business show with 154 episodes published.
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Eve-Lynn Ansley, People Director at UCC Coffee, joins Louise to talk about what she found when she walked into an HR team that sat behind a closed door, never spoke to each other, and was only ever approached with...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ramneek Sohal, HR Director at Domestic & General, joins Louise to share what she's learned from 20-plus years of walking into businesses with no HR function and building high-performing teams from scratch. From...
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<p>Ramneek Sohal, HR Director at Domestic & General, joins Louise to share what she's learned from 20-plus years of walking into businesses with no HR function and building high-performing teams from scratch. From...
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<p>Sam Gibson-Massey, founder of Hope, joins Louise to unpack what proactive wellbeing really looks like once you strip away the gym passes and free pilates. Drawing on his own burnout and years in big tech talent, Sam...
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<p>Giac Soliman, former Director of Compensation at Monzo and founder of Range, joins Louise to explore what AI can and can't do in the world of compensation and reward. From why pay decisions are too high-stakes to...
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Giac Soliman, former Director of Compensation at Monzo and founder of Range, joins Louise to explore what AI can and can't do in the world of compensation and reward. From why pay decisions are too high-stakes to fully...
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Claire Clarke, Director of Hospitality People Services at Moore Kingston Smith, joins Louise for an incredibly open conversation about what it's like to walk into a toxic workplace as an HR leader - and what it takes to...
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<p>Claire Clarke, Director of Hospitality People Services at Moore Kingston Smith, joins Louise for an incredibly open conversation about what it's like to walk into a toxic workplace as an HR leader - and what it takes...
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<p>Céline Crawford, Director of Operations at Fertifa, joins Louise to talk about why pay gaps stubbornly refuse to close, what transparent salaries actually do in practice, and what proper support around women's health...
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Céline Crawford, Director of Operations at Fertifa, joins Louise to talk about why pay gaps stubbornly refuse to close, what transparent salaries actually do in practice, and what proper support around women's health...
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<p>Aleksandra Kucza, Senior Global HR Director at ACAMS, joins Louise to talk about why talent reviews are one of the most underrated business processes out there - and how to run them well when your workforce is...
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<p>Tim Mitchell, Chief People Officer at the Institute of Cancer Research, joins Felix to talk about what it takes to build a workplace where different ways of thinking aren't just accepted - they're essential. As a...
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<p>Ellie Evans, seasoned Chef People Officer, joins Louise to challenge whether HR is guilty of over-complicating things - from rebranding part-time work as "fractured roles" to dressing up internal mobility as "talent...
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<p>James Zhang, a global HR professional with a background in mathematics, joins Louise to explore how AI is reshaping the way we think about organisational design, graduate careers, and what makes someone hireable in...
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