Liam Van Zyl Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, FI

Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland

• Employee Engagement, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), and People Development lead in Fiskars Group's global People Experience team.
• Drive global employee engagement surveys, analyze data, provide insights to senior leaders, and guide action planning with HR Business Partners and People Managers.
• Lead international talent programs with Aalto University and the University of Helsinki, providing group mentoring to students and building our employer brand and future talent pipeline.
• Foster an inclusive workplace by embedding DEI into recruitment, talent, and performance management processes, monitoring key metrics, and creating DEI awareness.
• Drive strategic people development with the People Experience team, including launching an internal talent marketplace and implementing a new LMS.
• Collaborate with HR Business Partners and stakeholders to identify business needs and drive people-focused initiatives, enhancing the overall employee experience.

Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland

• Key initiatives:
• Member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) working group, shaping and implementing our DEI strategy.
• Drove internal socialization (e.g. TV show, brand film, and other communications assets) of the new Fiskars Group brand identity to engage employees around our common purpose: Pioneering design to make the everyday.
• Played a key role in planning and executing Annual Safety Week.
• Collaborated as a member of the COVID-19 People Taskforce, which focused on employee well-being, connection, and communication
• Gathered and created content for annual Sustainability report

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Responsible for client and industry research, gathering and interpreting data (e.g. interviews,workshops, etc.), identifying problems, developing solutions, and presenting findings to internalteams and key decision.
• Executing core consulting and project management activities such as requirements gathering,risk/issue management, project planning, change management, etc.;
• Working as a member of multidisciplinary teams to execute project deliverables;
• Developing trusted relationships with team members and clients as part of project delivery.

Lund, Sweden

• Responsible for organising and planning events that aim to establish connections and facilitate interaction among graduate students, alumni, employers and organisations;
• Developing and facilitating workshops on career planning, personal branding, networking techniques, and crafting a professional image online;
• Building relationships with companies in Sweden and abroad to create opportunities for internships and other career-related experiences.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Conducting change impact analysis and design for a large SAP CRM Core Banking Programme;
• Modelling changes to understand how proposed changes will impact internal systems and employees as well as customers;
• Socialising changes to impacted areas to ensure they have a full understanding of the changes to their area and customers.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Stellenbosch

Responsible for running the university's mentoring programme at Eendrag to ensure that the new first-years adjust to the new university environment on both a social and academic level.I also served as Mentor in 2012.

Stellenbosch

Served as course facilitator for the NQF Level 6 short course "Leadership through Community Interaction" (2011) and course coordinator for the NQF Level 6 short course "Leadership for Change" (2013).

Stellenbosch

Was elected by the student union of Stellenbosch University (SU) to serve on the Students' Representative Council (SRC), the highest representative structure for students at SU as recognised by the SU Statute​ and governed by the Student Constitution​. The SRC fulfils its representative and organisational mandate through various portfolios allocated to a.

Stellenbosch

Served on the House Committee of Eendrag Men's Residence with the portfolios Media, Community Interaction and Sustainability.

Master Of Science (Msc) In Business And Economics, Business Administration, Specialisation In Managing People, Knowledge And Change

Master's Thesis: Talent acquisition gamified: Insights from playing the game at PwC Hungary

Master Of Commerce (Mcomm), Industrial And Organizational Psychology

Master's Thesis: Toward the development of a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) leadership questionnaire

Bachelor Of Commerce With Honours (Bcommhons), Industrial And Organizational Psychology

Major in Industrial Psychology, Minors in Marketing Management and Psychology

Diploma, Emotions And Interculturality

Exchange student