Lachlan Williams Email & Phone Number

Canberra, Act, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Greater Melbourne Area

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Senior leadership role encompassing organisational/business communications strategy, team leadership, messaging, project management, advocacy, M&A comms, business development and mentorship. Working across a broad client roster with clusters in venture capital, Future of Work, emerging technology, innovation infrastructure, enterprise tech, finance and cybersecurity.

Melbourne, Australia

Led media and communications for a highly visible campaigning organisation in a complex political environment, securing agenda-setting coverage and shaping the national conversation. - Devising and implementing media and communications strategy - Managing relations on sensitive media issues with a diverse group of stakeholders - Providing advice and guidance to officers during high-pressure and rapidly developing scenarios - Aligning media strategy with government relations, organising and policy development efforts- Providing speechwriting services, facilitating media training and improving internal processes - Managing a high-performing and committed team of professional communicators

Sydney, Australia

Managing social, digital and traditional media assets for a large membership-based organisation with a complex array of internal and external stakeholders. - Implementing digital-first member communications strategy. - Directing media buying and PR activities to support and enhance grassroots campaigns. - Handling internal and external stakeholders with complex and overlapping objectives. - Overseeing communications strategy for political and industrial campaigns. - Writing speeches, media releases and research documents. - Overseeing brand management, public relations and charity/fundraising initiatives.

Sydney

Working across breaking news and feature articles to bring a national audience engaging, timely, entertaining and on-trend digital content. Assisting with social media management and content strategies for products in development. Part of the founding reporting team on 9 Stories project.

Sydney

Sydney, Australia

Work across lifestyle, food, health and travel categories creating digital content for one of Australia's largest online portals. Manage online content for two prestigious lifestyle magazine brands.

Staff Writer at weekly men’s lifestyle title. At various times looked after tech, dating/relationship, travel, topical news and jokes sections. Conducted interviews, pitched and executed news story ideas, planned and wrote features, pitched stunts, wrote press releases, edited one-shot editions and contributed occasionally to sports and entertainment sections.

Conducted media research and oversaw production for government and corporate clients in the finance, resources, media, automotive and non-profit industries.

Conducted media research and oversaw production for government and corporate clients in the finance, resources, media, automotive and non-profit industries.