"You are not wedded to a particular pathway, retrain and learn something new." Charlotte Williams, Head of Communications, NNL

Are We Nearly There Yet?

Charlotte Williams is the Head of Communications for the National Nuclear Laboratory.

Charlotte grew-up and lives in Leigh with her husband and two boys. She enjoys running and walking to keep healthy, which counteracts her love of baking, something she developed an interest in during Covid using the months of lockdown to cheer family and friends up by baking.

In her early years, Charlotte attended Bedford High school where she was very work focussed and remembered for always having a smile on her face. She enjoyed the creative subjects, especially English and art.

After school, she initially went to Wigan & Leigh College however due to personal reasons couldn’t carry on this path and started to work at a local solicitors for 18 months. After this time, Charlotte realised the role wasn’t working and moved to a similar organisation to feel disinterested again which made her realise she had to cast her net further to see what other opportunities existed. She was successful in getting a position on an undergraduate scheme at Marconi Communications which allowed her to move around the organisation whilst studying on day release where she achieved a BA Honours in Business Studies. One of her placements was in the HR team and realised she enjoyed the people side of thing, plus the marketing team focussing on business to business an experience valuable.

From here, Charlotte went to work at Erikson in an internal communications role a position that allowed her to make a difference in employee’s working lives, by keeping them suitably informed during significant business changes.

Next on the cards was a move to British Gas Home Care in their internal communications team looking after communications for their contact centre and with the engineers going out on home visits – a very different role with lots of travelling – however very energetic with lots of creativity. She then moved within British Gas to their installations team to continue with her professional development, creating a different style of communications which involved getting safety messages out to engineers onsite with two large communications campaigns which were so successful ended up going company wide.

Charlotte currently works for the National Nuclear Laboratory, a move she made for family reasons with a young family.

For more information visit: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/charlotte-williams-9209852