Speakers
Jodie Hill
Managing Partner, Thrive Law
Thrive Law
Following her mental breakdown (which she now refers to as her mental breakthrough!), Jodie Hill decided to set up her own employment law firm where her values around mental health and diversity & inclusion would be the foundations of the firm and are embodied in everything she and her Tribe do.
Thrive Law was born in 2018, when Jodie was just 29, and is uniquely positioned as the only employment law firm that adopts this unique approach blending D&I wellbeing with employment law and HR advice, in the UK.
Jodie’s mission is to educate and empower employers to create their own thriving cultures.
Outside of Thrive, Jodie is the founder and chair of This is Me Yorkshire, a global business led mental health initiative, she is a Law Care Champion, a member of Neurodiversity in Law, and in 2020 was appointed as a member of The Law Society’s Employment Law Committee.
Jodie has appeared on BBC world and regional news, Sky news, and ITV news as well as featured in The Guardian, The Times, and The Independent to name a few!
Sarah Murphy
General Manager, EMEA
Clio
Building and scaling efficient, successful teams and businesses to be their best and most innovative is what Clio’s General Manager for EMEA, Sarah Murphy, does every day. Through supporting all of Clio EMEA’s teams, including customer support, engineering, and sales and marketing, she is driving the actions that help Clio to achieve its mission to transform the legal experience for all, in the UK, Ireland, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
With a long career spanning diverse industries, including finance, insurance, telecommunications, and legal technology, she works to empower legal professionals of all kinds to meet the challenges of running a law firm. She is passionate about building and scaling teams, new market exploration, and her two children.
Rachel Tombs
Legal Marketing/Business Development Specialist, Linkedin Coach, and Solicitor (Non-Practising)
Orion Legal Marketing
Rachel Tombs was a practising solicitor for 15 years and during her legal career, Rachel became involved in the marketing and business development work that was being undertaken by the various firms in which she worked. She quickly discovered that effective marketing could deliver exceptional results for all legal professionals.
Since leaving practice, seven years ago, Rachel and her award-winning specialist team at Orion Legal Marketing have worked with over 500 businesses and law firms, nationally and internationally, delivering bespoke and successful marketing and business development services.
Alex Holt
Chief Revenue Officer
The Cashroom
Alex Holt qualified as a solicitor in 1993 and became a partner at two top 100 law firms before moving to set up his own executive search business specialising in strategic resourcing and M&A for law firms. Alex then went on to join a global IT outsourcer called Steria where he created and delivered their strategy for developing legal sector offers. In 2014, he joined Cashroom to head up Business Development and open Cashroom in England and Wales, and then the USA in 2022, leading new market and product exploration.