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Hi, welcome back to Clock Talk.

We are once again live at CGI.

Clock Talk is a podcast where legal professionals come to stay informed, stay connected, and stay ahead.

Today, we're joined by Jade Priest-Maoz, who is going to talk to us about the People Playbook, how legal operations can move beyond traditional processes and technology roles to become a driver of human-centered leadership, development, and organizational impact.

And, you know, you can bring such a unique perspective that we're not necessarily getting, especially with all of this technology and technology push talk.

And I think this would be a really interesting voice to hear from, especially with how to actually approach this when we're actually working and actually having team members and trying to work with people across the organization as well.

So not everyone was able to make it to CGI or...

They weren't able to attend your talk for whatever reason.

This is Louis in Seattle.

I've had CGI, checker code GIB on my watch list.

I was wondering what is your impression on the company? And do you feel that this is a good entry point or do you feel it could go down more? I look forward to your answer.

You guys have a good day.

This is Galat Satellite Networks.

It's bounced back.

Oh, yeah, CGI is the name.

Some of our systems.

Parce que, puis écoute, t'as toujours l'invitation dans le futur là pour évidemment-

Ok, juste, just, euh, CBC, euh, CGI et Jardin des Jardins, a great name.

Euh, juste encore la mentalité.

Au début, quand je faisais ces maquettes, I would use American corporations, puis j'avais des gens.

And alongside her executive career, Cathy was the founding chair of Coca-Cola's Women's Leadership Council, helping to advance opportunities for women across the organization.

Today, she serves on the boards of Delta Airlines, CGI, and Beyond Meat, and is actively involved with several educational, cultural, and community organizations, including Spelman College, University of Rochester, United Way of Greater Atlanta, and the Atlanta History Center.

Welcome to the Curious Advantage podcast, Cathy.

Thank you.

You are picking up from the wreckage of SaaSpocalypse.

And the name that you've chosen is CGI.

CGI is still down about 18% from its peak in January.

It got as low, what is it? 130 was the peak.

It got as low as 80%.

Now it's back up to 100.

And I want to know, when did CGI get on your radar? Was it after the sell-off? And what makes it attractive now? Like, how is this not a value trap?

You know, we have owned CGI for a while now because it was sort of the value tech name.

Again, another example, nobody really cares what ERP system we used.

No, if we were using SAP, Oracle, Tyler, CGI, nobody cared, you know, as long as everything from a financial perspective got the right results.

But I can tell you that if I said that I was going to introduce Claude into our billing system, which is not part of the plan, it's a hypothetical.

But if we were to say we're going to introduce something like that, people would be very concerned.

You know, Caliberty was only 130 people.

We're recently merged with CGI.

So we're a much bigger company.

So I'm learning now.