James Perry

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James Reed: all about business · 89. The business decision you'll thank yourself for in 5 years | James Perry · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

And she really grabbed that.

We were doing this in a sort of chaotic and not organized way.

And she took that.

and turned it into a highly organized program with a very intentional goal of 5% of our workforce to be raw talent.

And we started partnering with prisons, other charities, and it's become the most phenomenal thing in our business.

Rosie would be a better place to answer that question than I would, because she's the one who's actually done it.

But I've watched it pretty closely.

And the most important factor was the culture.

So we're asking people who have, mostly blue collar workers, who have hard jobs and hard lives to accept people, very complicated people, into the workplace to work with them.

And that's a big ask.

And it can't be taken lightly.

So it has to be consensual.

So there's a lot of work where the consent of the people, of our people, of our existing team was sought.

I mean, we have one case where, you know, and as a result of that, we had a bar on people with a murder conviction or people with sexual offenses because people felt they wouldn't feel unsafe.

And we had an instance where the prison came and said, look, we have someone with a murder conviction.

It was a long time ago.

They've changed.

We think that this is a really good candidate.

And the question was put to the team whether that would be something they'd accept, which they decided to give the person a trial.

And after the trial, they decided to take them on.

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