Where theory meets practice

Dr Julie McFarlane has been important strategic advisor to NPL Group for a number of years. Julie’s insights have helped develop the NPL Brand and build the Group Balance Sheet to more than £90 million over the past 2 years.

Rodrigo led on the development of our social media strategy and added enormous value to TREE AID. He is a great expert and enthusiast in his field but can combine this with being practical and engaging those new to social media. I can thoroughly recommend Rodrigo and would jump at the opportunity to work with him again.

I have known Julie for over 10 years and not only is she an amazing person but she is an amazing colleague! She is an expert in entrepreneurship and is very hands on. Her passion and commitment to entrepreneurship - working with companies, students and teaching - is phenomenal. She brings experience, creativity and intellect to the table.

Kyle and I worked together for over two years. He teaches in the marketing strategy class I am coordinating, and we have also worked together on hosting a digital marketing workshop for small businesses. Besides his super agreeable personality, Kyle is a pleasure to work with. He is a great lecturer, with expertise in communications and digital marketing. One of his many strengths as a professional is that he is bringing concepts and ideas in life by sharing unique examples, and simplifying complex notions - students love him. I highly recommend Kyle for projects and teaching engagements requiring expertise in digital marketing.

Dr. Julie was working alongside her colleagues and helped provide RL Engineering with support in terms of strategy development, business model clarification and brand realignment and repositioning as well as performance measures in the business. Working with you to create a compelling value proposition that helps sells the brand to a wider audience. She was a fantastic help to our business with a total understanding of our needs and requirements. Gordon Hamilton MD

I have had the honour to work with Julie several years since 2014 as part of the Erasmus+ program. As program director at Heriot-Watt University, she made her valuable contribution to the conception, design and delivery of the industrial management post-graduate Master program, both in terms of content than context. She impressed me above all for her professionalism, her determination and constant creative and innovative power. Working with her is a pleasure, both from the human point of view for her positiveness and the sympathy she releases, and professionally for the skills she brings into the game. I'm just sorry I didn't get to work with Julie anymore.

Rodrigo is a great team player, the most creative person I have ever met. He is a pro-active professional, a strategist, goal oriented, self-motivated and most of all honourable. A real gentleman.

I strongly recommend Rodrigo without any doubt, he proved to have the potential to become a very talented brand manager. He is highly focused on results and has outstanding creative and analytical skills. He is able to manage very substantial amounts of pressure and always completes assignments correctly and on time.