Williamz Omope began his career in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire — working as a learning mentor and teaching assistant in schools, then moving into employability outreach in some of the most deprived communities in the region. His early career taught him something that most institutions take decades to understand: that the communities with the greatest barriers to employment are often the hardest for formal services to reach — and that closing that gap requires something the system rarely offers. Trust. Presence. Time.

That early work took him into youth work in Nottingham — engaging young people at risk of youth violence and gang involvement, working across community centres and estates where statutory services often couldn’t gain a foothold. It was demanding, relentless, and formative. It gave him an understanding of risk, complexity, and the kind of sustained engagement that actually moves people forward.

When he arrived in London in 2010, Williamz joined Enfield Council’s Jobs NET and Regeneration team, delivering outreach employability across the borough — job clubs, training, drop-ins, and networking events, funded through ESF, GLA, and other streams. He built relationships with communities that statutory services struggled to engage, and developed a delivery approach that prioritised accessibility over compliance.

His reputation for community engagement led to something unusual: he was headhunted into Enfield Council’s Public Health team. There, he brought the same grassroots rigour to a new set of problems — analysing health inequality data across demographic groups, designing community projects to address structural barriers, and doing something no one had thought to do before: embedding job clubs within public health delivery, because the evidence linking unemployment, isolation, mental health, and poor health outcomes was impossible to ignore.

He trained Health Champions — local residents equipped to carry health messages into their own networks. He worked specifically with Bangladeshi, Turkish, and Somali communities, designing translated materials and facilitating trusted-space drop-ins in mosques and social clubs. He embedded blood pressure checks and health screenings directly into job club sessions. He understood that you cannot address employment outcomes without addressing the conditions people are living in.

“The communities I work with don’t need to be empowered. They’re already powerful. They need systems that actually work for them — and people willing to build those systems when they don’t exist.”

Williamz Omope — Founder & Director, WO Consultancy

In December 2019, Williamz left Enfield Council through voluntary redundancy. What happened next was not planned — it was demanded. Community members who had attended the job club for years asked a simple question: who would continue it? Without a plan, the job club would simply stop. With the support of his manager and the trust of the community, Williamz set something up. WO Consultancy launched in 2020 and has run continuously since.

What began as continuity of service has become something significantly more ambitious. WO Consultancy now delivers job clubs five days a week across North London, operates a 41-course digital inclusion and employability programme with 500+ people on the waiting list, owns a mobile digital suite capable of deploying a full learning environment anywhere, and is actively building a Job Club Navigator App to extend support beyond in-person sessions.

Williamz is also the founder of anotherAccident Studio — WO Consultancy’s in-house creative team, delivering photography, documentary storytelling, video production, and campaign assets. It is the same instinct that runs through everything he builds: don’t wait for someone else to provide what the community needs. Build it yourself.