Liam Sandford

Amazon #1 Best Seller in Public Speaking & Speech Writing 

Amazon #1 New Release in Delivering Meetings & Presentations

Amazon #1 New Release in Educational Professional Development

Public speaking is an extraordinary skill that everyday people can leverage to gain a competitive advantage. The problem is most people are deftly afraid of it or lack speaking confidence due to being taught the wrong things.

The all-too-familiar stress, racing heart, and sweaty palms can be significantly reduced or eliminated by learning steps to remove barriers and roadblocks.

Effortless Public Speaking showcases how to calm your mind and maximize your environment to be able to focus on what matters most.

It has never been easier to become a good public speaker. Effortless Public Speaking is your roadmap to learn how to speak stress free, reduce fear, and become a confident speaker without the need to master difficult techniques.

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Atkins

• Experienced Campaign Manager, developing campaign communications and marketing strategies, including use of internal communications platforms and social media.

• Head of Emerging Professionals, designing the strategy for developing the mid-grade experience at Atkins.

• Delivered personal brand coaching to emerging professionals, focused on producing thought leadership for social media to showcase company expertise through personal branding.

• Designed and created content for a variety of internal communications platforms, including articles on the company intranet pages, the company email newsletter, Yammer posts, and building SharePoint sites.

• Copywriter for marketing papers that showcase the expertise and experience that Atkins has as a global business to enhance and showcase the credentials to key external market stakeholders.

• Developed the LinkedIn strategy for campaigns, including paid advertorials, producing content for the corporate LinkedIn account, and developing personal brands using individual accounts.

• Programme & Project Manager with defence and transportation clients, including international partners.

• Project Manager for 20 projects, managing project teams and stakeholders to ensure smooth delivery against timescales to meet regulatory requirements

• Head of Thought Leadership for Emerging Professionals, building the thought leadership framework on how to produce effective thought leadership linked to company global campaigns.

• Led innovation management portfolio to improve internal innovation capability and develop a client offering for innovation (including pursuit of ISO56002 for innovation management).

• Bid Manager for potential contracts, managing teams, writing bid response and producing cost models for work delivery.

• As Project Manager for Network Rail, I led the rationalisation of deliverables to incorporate learnings from the programme discovery phase, reducing project overhead by 50%.

Management Consultant

Thames Valley Police

• Project Manager on the Effectiveness and Efficiency Programme aimed at finding millions of pounds in cashable savings.

• Communications lead for the Policing Strategy Unit, including producing internal communications campaigns to ensure police officers understood consistently changing guidance relating to the COVID-19 policing response.

• Produced business strategy and operational guidance for frontline police officers, including hate crime & extremism, cybercrime, modern slavery and radicalisation.

• Managed budget saving and service improvement changes in the force through the Effectiveness and Efficiency programme.

• Project managed department reviews.

• Led consultations with senior police officers and local partners to improve service delivery and outcomes at court for victims..

• Research liaison for the ‘using virtual reality to address hate and extremism’ project run by the Open University.

• Identifying demand reduction opportunities.

• Conducting fieldwork and subsequent analysis to ascertain problems and identify solutions.

• Peer reviewer for the Thames Valley Police academic journal.

Policing Strategy Officer

University of Gloucestershire

• Delivered and developed university compliance with the Prevent duty.

• Informed university Prevent practice through my MSc research project ‘Exploring the capabilities of Prevent in addressing radicalisation in cyberspace within Higher Education’.

• Member of the university Prevent compliance board.

• Delivered staff and student consultations, WRAP training, and events relating to Prevent.

• Assisted writing the Prevent risk assessment and compliance annual report for submission to HEFCE.

• Designing and implementing a student engagement plan for Prevent.

• Speaker at Prevent conferences.

• Conducted academic research on Prevent and engagement with other academics studying Prevent in education.

Student Engagement Officer (Prevent)

University of Gloucestershire Students' Union

• Director, trustee and senior manager of a million pound turnover company.

• Built a team, designed a strategy, and ran a successful campaign to become the elected President of the Students’ Union.

• Management of company social media profiles and content across Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

• Delivered large scale events including a Welcome Ball and Summer Ball at Cheltenham Racecourse with 3,000 attendees at events.

• Liaison for external partners including the media, police, and the National Union of Students.

• Elected representative for 10,000 students.

• Responsibility for budget management of student activities.

• Chair of Students’ Union Executive committee, Vice-Chair of Board of Trustees.

• Member of university Prevent compliance board and university governing council.

• Management of company social media profiles and content across Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

• Delivered large scale events including a Welcome Ball and Summer Ball at Cheltenham Racecourse with 3,000 attendees at events.

• Liaison for external partners including the media, police, and the National Union of Students.

• Led recruitment process for Students’ Union Chief Executive.

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