Ceri Willmott
Ceri is Managing Partner of Life HQ and has been leading Participle’s work with families for the last 18 months. She has worked for over 15 years in the UK and abroad in the areas of social development and cultural change, including several years specifically dedicated to transformation in public services. Having originally trained as a social anthropologist (at Cambridge and LSE), she worked in Latin America and Africa with grassroots organizations focused on empowerment and health. In the UK she lead cultural change programmes with clients such as ICI plc, Luton Airport and Nottingham City Council, before joining the Design Council where as National Programme Director she led ground-breaking projects in health and education, as well as a national programme to support design and innovation in business. After a stint as MD of a leading Fairtrade business she joined Participle where she managed a new social venture that addresses social isolation and loneliness in elderly people, before taking on the role of leading Participle’s work with families.