Optional early arrival

Registration and room check-in

A key purpose of Legacy is to allow you to build valuable personal connections and to enable those relationships to develop.

When you arrive, you’ll be presented with background information on every attendee at the retreat, to help you understand who you will be meeting and prioritise the connections you make during the retreat.

Welcome and introductions

PCA Law: Go beyond the norm

Inspirational

Legacy’s opening session will be unique, never to be created again, or seen anywhere else. You won’t believe what unfolds in front of you. And you’ll help to create it.

You’ll make new connections and new discoveries. You’ll find commonalities and learn from a world class high performing team. You’ll build high levels of trust quickly.

You’ll challenge, stress test and refine your aspirations and plans for growth.

You’ll be primed to capitalise on what Legacy offers over the next 36 hours. You’ll be talking about this for years to come.

PCA Law
PCA Law creates high impact learning solutions to help law firms to grow their people and their business. Having worked with 9 of the 10 largest global law firm brands, PCA Law combines the credibility of extensive commercial experience with the creativity of experiential learning expertise. They bring best in class learning and development knowledge from the corporate world and apply it to the unique contexts of their legal sector clients – focussing on developing Leadership and Culture, Performance Management skills and Sales & BD capabilities.

Close and transport back to the Goodwood Hotel.

Drinks reception

Social/Networking

Join us on the terrace of the Farmer, Butcher, Chef restaurant for casual drinks and socialising.

Dinner

Social/Networking

Our evening meal will be a casual homegrown cookout, showcasing produce sourced locally or from the Estate’s organic Home Farm, cooked and served on the terrace of the Farmer, Butcher, Chef restaurant.  Relax, enjoy, and use this opportunity to get to know other members of the group.

Breakfast will be served in the Farmer, Butcher, Chef restaurant from 6:30 – to 10.30am 

Goodwood Racecourse Walk

Social/Networking

We’ll meet in the lobby of the Goodwood Hotel for transport via vintage bus to the iconic Goodwood Racecourse, which is considered by many to be the most beautiful racecourse in the world. The site of over 200 years of racing and the home of “Glorious Goodwood”, the course commands magnificent views across the rolling Sussex countryside.  We’ll walk the full course in the company of an Estate guide who will share stories about Goodwood and it’s racing history.

We’ll return to the Goodwood Hotel for breakfast and/or free time.

Breakfast/free time

Meet the shuttlebus at the Goodwood Hotel for transport to Goodwood House (or to start the 10-minute walk). 

Welcome/Introductions

This morning we’ll be in the warm and welcoming setting of the Yellow Drawing Room of Goodwood House for a series of plenary sessions.

Chaired by:
Claire Burden, Partner, S&W

Keynote Presentation: Near- and long-term national and global economic developments and the factors that are most likely to impact legal businesses in the UK

Outside-In

Against a global backdrop of conflict, political instability, security threats and economic uncertainty, Chris will look at factors such as interest rates, inflation, labour markets, wage growth, private equity and M&A activity and will consider impacts on business and employment in general, and the likely impact on law firms in particular.

Chris Hare, Economist, HSBC Global Banking & Markets

Keynote Presentation
The Power of Ambition – introduction

Inspirational

In this introductory session, Marcus will share his insights into the power of ambition and how the brain works when you have a definite purpose in mind. 

What is your destination? And how can you bring others with you to that destination?

Marcus Child has won 43 awards and worked in 36 countries in 29 years of speaking to business leaders. He inspires confidence and kindles resourcefulness and self-belief in individuals, positivity between colleagues and trust between organisations and their customers.
Marcus Child

Keynote Presentation
How to be a brilliant CEO: learning lessons from history to secure your legacy

Outside-In

Michael Aldous is author of The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain’s Captains of Industry, which explores how the role and purpose of leaders of Britain’s largest companies have changed across the 20th and 21st centuries, and the lessons we can learn from their successes and shortcomings.

Drawing on insights from the book, this discussion traces how leaders have historically fused strong values, personal purpose, accountability and shared destiny into long-term company success.  Subsequently, he outlines the challenges that have emerged across the twentieth century that make these outcomes increasingly difficult to achieve.

Through this discussion he asks, how, in today’s complex pressurised business environment, can you provide long-term vision and stewardship to the company you lead?

To answer this question, we think about the design and purpose of leadership roles, and the importance of organizational architecture in creating the parameters to make good decisions, including:

• avoiding the trap of short-term thinking
• the personal and professional behaviours that successful leaders share
• taking a purposeful approach to succession
• why good governance really matters
  

Michael Aldous, Business Historian, Author and Senior Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast

Lunch

Social/Networking

A casual lunch, plus tea and coffee will be served in the Front Hall. The Card Room, the Egyptian Drawing Room and the Music Room will be available for networking or private meetings. 

Weather permitting, attendees are encouraged to take meetings or lunch onto the lawn or out into the Estate.

The Power of Ambition – group work

Inspirational

First you’ll work individually to create a first draft of a strategy setting out an “end state” for your firm.  What are the steps to reaching your destination? How can you create a compelling vision for that end state?  Then, you’ll go into pairs to stress test your plan. 
Marcus Child

The Power of Ambition – close

Inspirational

Marcus will leave you with the inspiration to help your people to coalesce around ambitious and adventurous goals.
Marcus Child

Followed by “white space” and free time

Social/Networking

Meet at the Goodwood Hotel for transport via vintage bus to Goodwood House for the evening.

Drinks reception

Social/Networking

We’ll come back together for networking time over drinks and canapes on the lawn and in the Front Hall of Goodwood House. 

Over the course of the reception, you will have the opportunity to take part in the Goodwood House guided tour.  This is a unique opportunity to see one of the country’s most significant private art collections, without the presence of the general public.  Hosts will be on hand to explain the history of the House, the Estate and the artworks.

Drinks and canapes will be served throughout, both inside the House and on the lawn.

Keynote Presentation
Legacy Story

Outside-In

Gusbourne
Every wine we make at Gusbourne tells our unique story.

We grow only the highest quality Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier grapes across the Gusbourne Estate to make our award-winning sparkling wines, all crafted using the traditional method.

We champion a low-intervention, sustainable approach to vineyard management. Only the best quality fruit is harvested, all hand-picked by our skilled vineyard team. Gusbourne’s unique terroirs and mild microclimates add their own depth and complexity. Our winemaking teams experience, instinct and skill come together to craft the best expression of our wines, year after year.

Dinner

Social/Networking

Taking place in the spectacular setting of the Ballroom of Goodwood House, our meal will use the finest produce, sourced locally or from Goodwood’s organic Home Farm.

Breakfast will be served in the Farmer, Butcher, Chef restaurant from 6:30 – to 10.30am

We recommend that attendees check out after breakfast and before the programme begins at 9:30 at the Goodwood Art Foundation.

Because today’s programme finishes after the Hotel’s check-out time of 11:00, you can:

• join the guided walk to the final venue and we will provide transport back to the hotel at the close
• or, take our transport both to the final venue and back to the hotel at the close
• or, drive yourself to the final venue and depart from there

Meet in the lobby of the Goodwood Hotel to join a short, guided walk to the Goodwood Art Foundation, followed by tour of the Sculpture Park.

Or, meet in the lobby of the Goodwood Hotel for transport to the Goodwood Art Foundation.

Alternatively, make your own way to the Goodwood Art Foundation in time for our 9:30 start.

Goodwood Art Foundation Tour

Surrounded by world-class art created by international artists in a breath-taking woodland setting, we’ll finish the retreat with sessions that will leave you inspired and exhilarated.

Welcome

Legacy Story

Outside-In

In this dynamic and engaging interview, Paul will tell the story of his leadership of BDO from 2016 to 2024, during which revenues went up 131% and profits up 147%, partner numbers nearly doubled, people numbers more than doubled and BDO completed its merger with Moore Stephens LLP, creating one of the UK’s largest accountancy and business advisory firms.

Paul Eagland, Advisor and former Managing Partner, BDO UK

Keynote Presentation

How demographic disruption is reordering the world – and what you need to know about it as a leader, an employer, and a human being

Inspirational

Generations at work, society and in politics have never been so far apart.

Dr Eliza Filby is a historian, author and thinker who studies society through the prism of age and generations – from Baby Boomers to Generation Alpha – examining how the traditional lifecycle, family life and individual values are being reordered and remade in the 21st century.

Her work isn’t about predicting the future, rather it’s about helping people and companies recognise the forces quietly rewriting our world and what they mean for the choices we make now.

Her most recent book, Inheritocracy: It’s Time to Talk about the Bank of Mum and Dad was published in September 2024 and became a Top Ten Sunday Times’ Bestseller.
Dr Eliza Filby, Historian, Author and Thinker

Close and Lunch

Social/Networking

Lunch will be provided on the light-dappled terrace of the Goodwood Art Foundation café, overlooking views of wood- and farmland. 

Before leaving, make the most of the networking time over a light meal inspired by Goodwood’s “field to fork” philosophy and using only exceptional organic, home-grown or locally sourced ingredients.