This episode, I am joined by Tamara Box, Partner at Reed Smith, where we explore the forces reshaping the legal profession: the backlash against DEI, the rise of AI, and how leadership programmes, working styles, and billable hours are shaping gender equity.

We ask: are firms drawing hard lines, or compromising in the name of business?

Please listen if you'd like to hear a conversation on where the profession is heading, and what it will take to lead with both principle and impact.

Host: Geraldine Gallacher

Producer: Holly Ashton

Shifting the Needle is back! Our new episode is about ‘Rethinking Neurodiversity at Work’ with Madelaine Verchere, Data Strategy and Neurodiversity Community Co-Lead at EY.

In this episode, we unpack the eye-opening results of EY's Global Neuroinclusion at Work Study 2025, an exploration involving 2,000 neurodivergent and 500 neurotypical professionals that’s redefining what success can look like in today’s workplace. With 1 in 5 of being neurodiverse, this episode highlights why inclusion isn’t optional, it’s essential.

If you're a leader who wants to unlock the full potential of your team, this episode is a must listen. Learn how to truly understand what makes your people tick, neurodiverse or neurotypical, and create a workplace where everyone can thrive.

Whether you’re neurotypical, neurodistinct, or proudly neuro-spicy, this episode will give you fresh insight into how the people around you work best and how to bring out the brilliance in everyone.

Host: Geraldine Gallacher

Producer: Holly Ashton

Isla Thomas, Head of the Carers Network at Deloitte sits down with ECC’s Geraldine Gallacher to chat about care responsibilities – the myths, the realities and what the new UK Carers Leave Act means for employee caregivers.

In this episode of Shifting the Needle, Geraldine Gallacher welcomes friend, colleague and Chair of City Women’s Network, Yvette Forrester to unearth some of the heart wrenching challenges facing those in the Sandwich Generation. This episode takes a more intimate direction as the pair discuss Yvette’s personal journey caring for her mother with dementia, raising her ill son and balancing her career with her divorce. Yvette hopes her story will be a light to others going through similar caring, professional and personal challenges.

We're delighted to welcome Jennifer Petriglieri back to our Shifting the Needle podcast to move the conversation on from 'dual-career couples' in episode 4, onto why we need to rethink leadership development of executive women, how it's not about 'fixing the women', and why marginal flexibility is a good thing.