Liam Williams

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Visual Communications | Leadership | Sketchnoting | Graphic Recording | Financial Services | Workshop Facilitation | Agile | Internal Communications @ LeoDo
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Felton, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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About Liam Williams

Ten years working in Financial Services, working for the biggest pension providers in the UK. Roles such as account management, managing teams of 30+ colleagues, building new departments and most recently contracting for Legal & General helping build new pension products. During this time I’ve gained experience in the technical areas of pensions, the Agile project methodology, the operational side of running departments and leadership.Over the last 5 years I’ve pivoted to the creative sector and am Founder & Director of Leodo Ltd, a visual communications company. The pivot has been based around the concept of sketchnoting, something that captured my attention when attending the Do Lectures in 2016. Sketchnotes are visual maps where you express concepts, ideas and expression with images, type and text. Having began taking sketchnotes in meetings & at events I’ve now grown my services to include Workshops where I teach the sketchnoting skill to businesses, schools and universities. In addition I graphic record (or live scribe) where I visually capture the content at events, keynotes, webinars or meetings. I provide social content to help communicate and engage in a more visual way and provide other services such as graphic facilitation of meetings and ideation sessions along with presentation design.At the end of 2020 I also entered the world of internal communications, becoming a consultant from Cromwell Tools, an industrial tool supplier in the UK. A varied role helping engage colleagues with Internal Newsletters, SharePoint Sites, Email Communications, Rich Pictures, Presentation Design and a whole host of illustrations and graphics.The experience gained and the ability to apply my skills to different sectors has enabled me to build and expand my career toolbox. What has surprised me the most is how you can apply skills and ideas from completely different sectors to make positive change add continuous value.It’s all about adding value!I don’t tend to settle for comfort. Someone once told me, if it doesn't scare you, don't do it. I now live by that motto! Collaboration is key. I am always on the look out to explore new ideas and learn new things. I’m always available for a coffee in person or virtually!**Specialities**Leadership; Social Media; Account Management; Relationship Management; Pensions; Finance; Sketchnoting; Illustrations; Keynote Speaking; Workshop Facilitation; Agile Working; Graphic Recording; Graphic Facilitation; Internal Communications; SharePoint; Operationsliam@leodo.co.uk@leodo_uk [twitter & instagram]

Liam Williams's Current Company Details
LeoDo

Leodo

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Visual Communications | Leadership | Sketchnoting | Graphic Recording | Financial Services | Workshop Facilitation | Agile | Internal Communications
Liam Williams Work Experience Details
  • Leodo
    Director
    Leodo Nov 2018 - Present
    United Kingdom
    LeoDo is a visual communications company offering a variety of services to add value to you, your team/s and your business. Services include (and are not limited too):*Graphic Recording - capturing information, concepts and ideas with visual maps combining visuals and words. These highly engaging creations provide timeless value to your content whether at an event, a conference or any aspect you wish to capture visually. Recordings are created live, giving a different dynamic during the course of an event or conference*Creative Workshops - whether its learning how to sketchnote, making your meetings more engaging and efficient or wanting your stakeholders to express there ideas as part of a project. Workshops are designed to the client's needs to ensure true value.*Graphic Facilitation - facilitating meetings, focus groups and teams utilising a number of different facilitation methods. A more engaging and efficient way to utilise people's time, encourage attendee participation and build roadmaps and action points to deliver what you want to deliver*Content Creation - creating content using the sketchnoting concept, great to bring podcasts to life!*School Workshops - students are normally taught the same way, but not all students learn in the same way. Workshops teach students about sketchnoting, and how they can use it as a tool to express themselves, communicate in a different way and utilising visuals to assist their understanding and memory. Also a great way for teachers to find out more about their students learning styles.
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  • Siemens Digital Industries Software
    Communications Specialist (Ftc)
    Siemens Digital Industries Software Jun 2023 - Present
    United Kingdom
    Delivering internal communication solutions across a growing global community. Helping drive content strategy, curation and production across all internal channels. Siemens Digital Industries Software is driving transformation to enable a digital enterprise where engineering, manufacturing and electronics design meet tomorrow. Our solutions help companies of all sizes create and leverage digital twins that provide organizations with new insights, opportunities and levels of automation to drive innovation. For more information on Siemens Digital Industries Software products and services, visit http://sw.siemens.com.
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  • The Big Picture People
    Authorised Facilitator
    The Big Picture People Jan 2023 - Present
    United Kingdom
    Put your people in the picture!We create unique, visual communication tools that share the big picture of your organisation with your people.Employees learn how their role and behaviour delivers your key strategic priorities. The result is engaged and aligned colleagues who contribute more.Our products such as Learning Maps, Discovery Maps and Explainer Videos help organisations implement and embed:VISION AND STRATEGY - helping employees understand the direction of travel, showing them where they fit and why the journey is important - building trust and driving improved performanceORGANISATIONAL VALUES - bringing these to life in order to drive positive behaviours, so employees can see that your values support your vision, and are empowered and inspired to live them every dayPOLICIES & PROCEDURES - Helping re-energise, with employees feeling motivated to deliver the intent of polices becuause they recognise how they relate to the 'big picture'CHANGE LEADERSHIP - clarifying change, leading to it being grasped and implemented, with employees, teams and departments understanding the way things are done and the impact they can makeSince 1999 The Big Picture People (formerly BigPicture Learning) has helped hundreds of UK-wide and global organisations to put thousands of their people in the picture with our unique Learning Maps. We've combined the visual impact of video, the interactivity of a board game and the dynamics of informal discussion to bring 'lightbulb moments' of realisation as employees get fully immersed in the organisation's 'big picture', often for the first time.
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  • Cromwell
    Communications Consultant & Illustrator (Part-Time Contract 1-2 Days Per Week)
    Cromwell Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
    United Kingdom
    With over 2,000 colleagues my role is to provide versatile value, guidance, creativity & design across many different internal communication channels across different functions within Cromwell. A varied role helping engage colleagues with Internal Newsletters, SharePoint Sites, Email Communications, Rich Pictures, Presentation Design and a whole host of illustrations and graphics. The goal is to extract as much as possible from the tools available and to ensure cohesion between them. With my experience of working for many big players in the financial services industry, along with the creative work conducted through my company, LeoDo, Cromwell has provided me with the perfect environment to utilise an eclectic set of skills I’ve acquired throughout my career. It’s a great place to work...and don’t just take my word for it! Cromwell has recently been voted one of the best workplaces after a recent Great Place to Work survey and this year became part of Glassdoor’s 2021 Best Places to Work. **Cromwell has been established for over 50 years, Cromwell is a supplier of industrial tools, offering an unrivalled choice of products to all industries, professions and trades.Cromwell is now a company that has grown a global presence in the field of industrial supplies and in 2015 became part of the W.W. Grainger, Inc., North America's leading broad line supplier of maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) products to businesses and institutions.**
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  • Legal & General Investment Management (Lgim)
    Operations Subject Matter Expert (Contract)
    Legal & General Investment Management (Lgim) Nov 2018 - Nov 2020
    Cardiff, United Kingdom
    LGIM is the investment management arm of Legal & General Group, a FTSE 100 company. It is one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor, with assets under management of £984.8bn* (as at 30 June 2018).Working on projects utilising an Agile methodology my role is to design, develop and deliver operational solutions that will help drive the digital transformation of the business through the Digital Customer Initiative.Key Accountabilities include:Devising innovative solutions, engaging with key stakeholders where neededTaking ownership for the articulation, design and delivery of features and user storiesInfluencing colleagues across the operations scrum team and wider scrum teams to support deliveryDeveloping key customer-centric communicationsProactively engaging in the development and testing of the enabling technologyHighlighting and mitigating key risksCollaborating with other scrum teams to keep delivery on schedule
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  • Curtis Banks - Self Invested Pension Specialists
    Manager
    Curtis Banks - Self Invested Pension Specialists Dec 2017 - Oct 2018
    Bristol, United Kingdom
    Curtis Banks are a leading UK SIPP and SSAS provider.As Manager of the Property Administration Team I lead a department of 17, covering the whole property administration proposition. From purchase, to the ongoing administration of the investment lifecycle right through to the sale of the property. The role requires a forward thinking approach and the ability to challenge the status quo in order to drive through efficiencies and improvements on every aspect of what we do. My range of skills, working methods and curiosity enables me to think differently and explore many ideas which arise both personally, and from our people. I serve who I lead. One of my fundamental priorities is to remove barriers to day to day working tasks, fix problems with processes, and ensure employees are engaged, supported and motivated to work for the business. Idea generation is key, and with a team of 17 its important to extract as many ideas as possible. I curate and lead creative team workshops to extract ideas and to identify aspects that the team and business needs to improve. It’s a continuous process, no matter how successful a business you may be. I liaise with as many different business sectors as possible, through networking events, workshops and talks. This enables me to think outside the box and enables me to keep the generation of ideas fresh and up to date. Always approachable, no matter what's in the diary. Specialities: Leadership; Management; Project Management; Communications; Account Management; Marketing; Pensions; Copywriting; Project Management; Social Media; Training; Creative Workshops; Sketchnoting
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  • Curtis Banks - Self Invested Pension Specialists
    Team Leader
    Curtis Banks - Self Invested Pension Specialists Jul 2016 - Dec 2017
    Curtis Banks are a SIPP and SSAS provider having the second largest full SIPP client base in the UK. I lead the Property Administration Team, looking to bring new leadership ideas and concepts to improve performance, motivation and efficiency. My ideas are not limited to my particular team but the business as a whole with many ideas being personally driven. Hand picked to co-lead a branding project and helped implement an employee morale boosting initiative.I manage an internal, company wide newsletter responsible for image, content and editing. Also involved in other company communications, internal and external and provide my expertise on visual aspects of the website and how to approach social media platforms.My offline links on twitter enabled a link with Pension Geeks, a communications company, to which I organised sponsorship and attendance of Pensions Awareness Day 2014 and 2015. I also organise company events in aid of various charities. Pleasure of managing accounts on both the St. James’s Place SIPP (400+ clients) and the Curtis Banks SIPP(700+ clients). This mixed relationship management with a high volume of general scheme correspondence. My good relationship with our Business Development Manager’s made sure I maximised the number of new client’s choosing to set up accounts with Curtis Banks and to provide an excellent client experience from inception. I make sure I am approachable to all colleagues at all times and am very proactive in helping with guidance and assistance when required, or using my initiative to step in when I sense the need to.My pensions twitter account means I am up to date with current affairs and future legislation changes or rumours. This also benefits the company as I will be the first person to highlight matters which need to be brought to the attention of Senior Management.Specialities: Leadership; Communications; Account Management; Marketing; Pensions; Copywriting; Project Management; Social Media; Training
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  • Curtis Banks
    Account Manager
    Curtis Banks Jul 2013 - Jul 2016
    Bristol, United Kingdom
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  • Ascentric
    Sipp Administrator
    Ascentric Oct 2012 - Jul 2013
    Joined Ascentric to explore working for a Wrap Platform, working in the SIPP department administering new SIPP business.The SIPP product was still quite new to the market when I joined so developing the systems and overall administration of the SIPP department was high priority. I provided many ideas on improving the systems in place. The company experienced high volumes of new business so it was important for me to work with other members in the department to help manage workload and make sure temporary staff were trained to a high standard. Alongside this, I experienced high levels of general scheme correspondence via telephone, email and postal.I was also exposed to transfers out and helped streamline a new process to better handle these requests. I identified a lack of team knowledge of Pensions Liberation stopped potential cases going through the system.
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  • Sanlam
    Pensions Administrator
    Sanlam Mar 2012 - Oct 2012
    Sanlam were still a relatively new firm who had bought Merchant Investors. I was brought in to work on the full SIPP product they provided. Due to my background in pensions I was placed in charge of the Syndicated Property Purchase proposal. I quickly identified a lack of efficiency in how data was being recorded and implemented an entirely new way of tracking this product by transferring all data to Excel. I was exposed to high level management meetings in order to provide my figures each month.This role included a high volume of general scheme correspondence and I would assist the Pensions Technical team on difficult time consuming cases.
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  • Hargreaves Lansdown
    Sipp Administrator
    Hargreaves Lansdown Oct 2009 - Mar 2012
    Bristol, United Kingdom
    Hargreaves Lansdown is the biggest execution only SIPP provider in the UK. I joined directly from University.Working in the Regular Savings Department I was dealing with clients accumulating their pension funds. This included monthly reporting and the collection of monthly direct debits. In the absence of the team manager I would lead the team. During this role I produced full procedure notes for this element of the business.During my time at Hargreaves Lansdown I was also exposed to the Drawdown team and processed a high volume of applications and drawdown calculations. There was a high level of general scheme correspondence to deal with on a daily basis.
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Liam Williams Skills

Sipp Pensions Pension Administration Financial Services Investments Relationship Management Personal Pensions Pension Schemes Microsoft Office Blogging Retirement Sports Pension Systems Social Media Social Media Communications Retirement Planning Portfolio Management Social Media Marketing Creative Briefs Branding And Identity Leadership Copywriting Team Management Illustration Sketching Newsletters Corporate Communications Account Management Event Management Team Leadership Management Project Management Leadership Development Social Media Measurement Social Media Consulting Social Media Integration Social Media Optimization Creative Problem Solving Creative Strategy Creative Services Creative Writing Marketing Creative Entrepreneurship User Interface Design Employee Engagement Company Newsletters Newsletter Production Visual Communication Internal Communications Strategic Communications

Liam Williams Education Details

  • University Of The West Of England
    University Of The West Of England
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