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Explain Ideas Visually Course & Community is where you learn how to go from "I have no ideas" to portfolio of viral-worthy visuals.

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I share easy-to-digest ideas on creative business and personal growth, reaching millions every month.

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IT Project Manager

Accenture

Atea Global Services Ltd.

• Follow service delivery and performance to ensure Service Level Agreement (SLA) is met;
• Plan and manage Continual Service Improvement (CSI);
• Lead and plan various IT projects;
• Responsible for business, financial and operational goals;
• Being the first escalation point in case of major incidents;
• Active participation in new and existing service development;
• Cooperation with various internal and external stakeholders.

Service Delivery Manager

• Investigate customer's current setup and plan, build new setup based on Atea service offerings and best practices;
• Create and execute transition plan to successfully move new customers into operations;
• Install and configure IT enterprise solutions in customer's environment;
• Ensuring that all the deadlines are met according to the project plan;
• Work in cooperation with operational teams in project planning, task delegation and follow-up;
• Making sure that improvements and automation initiatives are brought up and implemented during transition;
• Work together with customers' project managers and technical staff.

IT Transition Architect

• Application Software packaging, preparing and testing for mass enterprise deployments. (Windows MSI, App-V 4.6, App-V 5.0).
• Package distribution management in SCCM 2012.
• Onsite and offsite consulting related to Application Software lifecycle management.

Application and desktop deployment expert

Velosports Ltd.

• Handle sales, provide great customer service;
• Designing marketing materials;
• Participating in national scale cycling event organisation.

Product Sales Specialist

Hey! I’m Janis Ozolins

End of 2016, by a lucky accident, I found a new dream for myself. Make a living online.

4 years later (a time filled with learning, failed experiments, and consumed content), still no revenue or audience.

Then I stumbled into the idea of communicating through visuals. I loved it and pursued it seriously.

6 months later, I felt momentum and left my corporate job. 1 year later, my visuals brought in more money than I made in my 9-5.

My dream to make a living online was complete. I’m feeling very grateful writing this.

Now I spend my time learning, creating, and teaching.

Janis Ozolins

Kim Witten, PhD

Kim Witten Coaching

I envision a world where people are thinking critically and clearly. Where we're working within our “zone of genius” and making a huge impact in all that we do. 

As such, my Mission — the work to be done to make that Vision a reality — is to help overwhelmed creatives get out of their own way and get set for success. I work with people 1-on-1 to ensure they get their ideas heard and are reaching their high-impact potential.

Wherever you are on that journey, I want to lift you up and enable you to achieve your best. For some people, we start with burnout recovery and working toward a more sustainable way of being. Others are well on their way to realizing their Vision and I help push them even further. And everyone else in between, we'll work on whatever it is that you need to move you and your business forward.

Where are you currently and where might you like to get to? Let's have a chat and see what's possible.

Transformational Coach

Sage

This role was as much about stakeholder management as it was about customer engagement. It was listening and sharing in equal measures. I worked within and across teams, connecting pieces of a larger service design puzzle in order to bring a new and improved customer journey to an underserved segment.

In more tangible terms, I led a research program to understand the state of finance in the UK non-profit sector, resulting in the redesign and relaunch of our product program, the publication of a whitepaper, the creation of a resource hub and the development of an online peer community. I was key in delivering all aspects of this while also regularly conducting workshops, facilitating meetings and presenting work to large and diverse audiences.

Customer Experience Manager

An idea was brewing. It would take a few more years before it was ready. The question that was forming then sounded something like this:

”Since you're so fascinated with people and what motivates them to do things, what if you could cut all these products and services out of the equation and help them directly, with their own lives?”

As I carried out my work at Sage, I gained valuable experiences toward an answer. I levelled up my listening, questioning, synthesizing, insight-gathering, communicating, and coaching skills. 

In terms of deliverables and outcomes, my work involved leading and executing customer research plans, coaching and mentoring other UX team members, providing UX guidance to product managers and influencing stakeholders to drive UX-led design. Through the creation of design solutions across Sage Products and Services, I helped define the vision of the end-to-end User Experience. 

This gave me the confidence and experience to develop that idea further and eventually to find answers to that brewing question. In a few years, I would leave Sage altogether and start my own business, helping people directly with their own life and design challenges.

Senior UX Designer

Bytemark Limited

Looking back on it now, this is the pivotal experience in my career path and why I became a coach. The me that was doing this role back then was barely coping with overwhelm and burnout. Struggling with lack of direction or focus — both externally and internally. 

My primary role at the time was UX Researcher. I was gaining a solid understanding of our customers’ wants and needs and advocating for them in design and development processes. I also took on the role of Product Owner in an emerging Agile/Scrum environment — maintaining the backlog and writing user stories. In addition, I was taking on all related Project Management responsibilities. 

It was three roles in one and although I was talented, driven, and productive, I wasn't a skilled juggler of plates and expectations.

I see now that I needed someone to understand this and help me see it too. It was an untenable position and it was crushing me. 

I needed someone to listen, hear and understand what was needed, and help me figure out what to do about it.

I became that person I needed back then. 

That's both how I know what it can be like and how I might help you if you are also struggling to manage your overwhelm, or with how to focus your efforts, and what exactly you're doing with your life. 

You don't have to create the life you want alone. If you're ready to recover and thrive, ask how coaching might help you.

UX Researcher

I made my start at Bytemark as a web developer and SQL data wrangler, but quickly found that code wasn't all it was cracked up to be. See the link below (the one with the rubber ducks) to hear how I self-talked my way through this particular challenge.

Even though code ultimately wasn't my wheelhouse, I am proud of some of the work I did during that programming stint. I was working on the creation of apps, websites, internal reports and data visualizations and delivered an internal reporting website, a groundbreaking anonymous hiring application (see the Data-Driven Recruitment Story link below) and a server outage site.

Junior Web Developer

FutureLearn & Lancaster University ESRC CASS Centre

I provided real-time support for participants in a massive open online course (MOOC). It was fantastic to help others learn how to do corpus linguistics and I especially enjoyed staying busy engaging in several quick-moving conversations at once.

Corpus Linguistics Mentor

University of York

Inspired fledgling linguists to become passionate advocates of language variation and change.

Seminar instructor, Language Variation and Change

Helped new university students safeguard themselves against plagiarism by demonstrating what it means to produce original, innovative work.

Turnitin Training Instructor, Research and Development Team

Self Employed

Freelance Graphic Designer & Brand Identity Consultant

Kane and Finkel

Associate Art Director & Senior Production Artist

Santen

Graphic Artist

Napa Valley Register

Graphic Designer

After spending over four decades overthinking absolutely everything, I’ve learned how to turn rumination into a deep thinking skill. I have become an expert in analyzing behavior and communication, with over 20 years of Design experience, a PhD in Sociolinguistics, and 800+ coaching hours as an Associate Certified Coach with the ICF.

Although I have a deep understanding of what makes people tick, I’m still learning every single day…people are full of surprises. I’m challenged and energised by all the resourceful ways people move themselves toward their goals. And what I might do to support them in that.

That's why my mission today is to help overwhelmed creatives, business owners, and thought leaders turn their overthinking into expert thinking.

From career-changers to change-makers, I’ve supported people from all over the globe to master their mindset, build their resilience and feel more confident, so that they work through any challenge and can create the life they truly want to live each day.

What is it that you’re overthinking at the moment?

Is it an idea but you aren’t sure about the next steps to turn it into a thing? Or an offer that’s established, but you feel like you’re missing a trick? Something else you making you feel stuck? Whatever the challenge, I bet you know at least this:

Things could be better.

That’s where my 3-experts-in-one approach might help.

As a Transformational Coach, I deeply listen to what is going on and ask the right questions to get you unstuck and moving forward.

As an Experience Designer, I see things from other perspectives and quickly spot what you can’t see — your unique value as well as the wheres and whys of when things are not quite right.

As a Business Consultant, I give you a doable plan of action that allows you to lean into what’s working while you fix what’s not.

Sometimes you need all three. That’s what you get with the Sense Check™ — a quick and effective way to get real answers to whatever challenge you’re facing in your work. Feel proud and confident about what you’re putting out there.

To learn more and book a free 30-minute consult to get instant answers right away, visit witten.kim/sense-check

I cannot wait to meet with you!

I imagine a world where people are thinking critically and clearly. They're working within their “zone of genius” and making a huge impact in all that they do. This is the Vision.

As such, my Mission — the work to be done to make that Vision a reality — is to help overwhelmed creatives get out of their own way and get set for success. I work with people 1-on-1 to ensure they get their ideas heard and are reaching their full, high-impact potential.

Wherever you are on that journey, I want to lift you up and enable you to achieve your best. For some people, we start with burnout recovery and working toward a more sustainable way of being. Others are well on their way to making their Vision a reality and I help push them even further. And everyone else in between, we'll work on whatever it is that you need to move you and your business forward.

Where are you currently and where might you like to get to? Let's have a chat and see what's possible.

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