Jon Stead

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Unlocking Value · Part 2: Jon Stead – Nobody's Paying for the Slides Anymore · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

I think the nature of that hiring may change, but it isn't to say junior hiring is getting in the way.

There's not any case.

I think particularly through second half of last year, we saw an element of paralysis in the market, UK market.

And it's slightly different, more nuanced in the US.

And I think for me, this comes back to last five months, it's been dominated by AI, hasn't it?

What does AI mean for our business?

What does it mean for our clients?

And I think a lot of the energy is being focused from senior leaders and consulting firms quite rightly on, actually, what does this mean for my business?

service proposition today?

What is it that clients are actually buying?

What is it that I need to deliver?

I think the loyalty energy, talking to consulting leaders can focus on that.

And during the course of the last 12 months has been a period of sort of paralysis thinking like, what does this even mean for me?

And we've seen that a lot.

I think in the UK, it's been a little bit more

sort of standoffish, a little bit more unsure, whereas in the US, our clients and our prospects that we speak to are kind of moving faster, not afraid to fail, iterating quickly, trying different things, whether it was stiff or not.

I think no one's really lived the consequences of any of this yet.

So earlier times, I think in the UK, it was a little bit more standoffish.

I think now we're seeing that settle down a little bit more.

I think people are sort of gravitating towards

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