Date: Tuesday 13th October 2026
Time: 8:30am – 10:00am
Topic: Leading Through Constant Change – Equipping leaders to navigate and deliver transformation.
Venue: Eversheds Sutherland – Birmingham Office
Roundtable Overview
Organisations are experiencing an almost continuous cycle of transformation, whether driven by AI, technology, cost pressures, acquisitions, or evolving employment legislation. Change is no longer a programme with a defined beginning and end; it has become part of everyday business.
While organisations invest heavily in strategy, technology, and delivery, many change initiatives still fail to achieve their intended outcomes. The difference is rarely the change itself; it is how leaders bring people along with them.
This roundtable will explore the role HR Directors play in enabling successful transformation by building leadership capability, creating compelling change narratives, maintaining trust and engagement, and enabling leaders to navigate uncertainty whilst sustaining business
Mark Hammerton
Mark is an employment law partner within Eversheds Sutherland’s Employment, Labor and Pensions Group. Mark has focused on employment law since qualifying in 1994 and has been a partner since 2005. Mark advises across the full range of employment and labor issues globally. This includes the people aspects of transactions, having worked on hundreds of outsourcing and corporate deals. Mark has many years’ experience helping clients taking a commercial approach to the challenges of TUPE. Mark works on cross border and UK only deals.
Mark also advises extensively on engagement and misclassification issues, assisting clients to navigate the evolving case law and legislation on status. Mark works with clients managing their contingent workforces on issues such as the IR35 off payroll tax reforms, the Agency Workers Regulations and the Employment Businesses/Agencies Conduct regulations which apply in the UK to staffing companies and their customers.
Mark helps employers resolve difficult workplace issues such as executive terminations, National Minimum Wage compliance, complex disciplinary and grievance matters (including matters involving whistle blowing and relationship breakdown). He has led complex restructuring and reorganisation projects, including in the context of insolvency.
Whilst Mark has a breadth of experience across sectors, he has particular experience in our Diversified Industrials sector including in construction, transport (rail) and infrastructure. He has also advised local authorities and central government bodies on complex cases and transactions.
Mark has inputted into various government consultations and supported leading business and industry bodies on, for example, the response to the consultation on the zero/low hour workers and contingent workers reforms.
Elizabeth Potter
With over 18 years of HR leadership experience, Elizabeth has partnered with senior executives across complex, multi-country organisations, shaping and delivering significant transformation and change.
Her experience spans organisational redesign, technology-enabled transformation, restructuring, market exits, culture and performance change, and workforce transformation across the UK, Europe and Asia. She has seen first-hand that successful change relies not only on a clear strategy, but on leaders having the confidence and capability to bring people with them.
Elizabeth is passionate about making complex change practical, building leadership capability and creating the clarity, trust and engagement needed to turn transformation plans into lasting organisational change.
