"Stuart supported the Chief Executive and members of the Board in engaging eleven universities in our consortium on the path to ambitious investment for growth. Not an easy task at the best of times, his formidable and rapid grasp of detail supported the building of consensus and agreement on the way forward. His ongoing and welcome involvement will be invaluable in helping us achieve our objectives."
Professor Elspeth Jones - Chair,
NCUK Board of Directors
“Your experience and wise counsel was immensely helpful to us in all circumstances, ensuring that we achieved our goals.”
Rob Cameron - Chairman, Flag
(a Computershare PLC group company).
“You have an uncanny grasp of both detail and overview - it is unusual to have both.”
Chris Rowlands - CEO,
Group 1 Software Europe.
“Without your assistance the company may never have survived.”
John Angel - Managing Director,
Percom.
“Stuart has none of the built-in company prejudices. His plans and recommendations were exactly targeted to what was required immediately and in the future.”
James Fagan - Managing Director,
Permanex Injection Moulding.
“It is very unlikely that we would have been able to support the company without the financial modelling that you provided.”
Nick Davies - NatWest Bank PLC.
"Lothian Associates has mentored my business, Nicola Prior PR, at intervals for 15 years. I'd thoroughly recommend this service to any similar organisation. Here is a 360 degree expertise that looks at all the business's dynamics (obvious and not so obvious ones), people, finance, skills and vision. Stuart Lothian's wise and objective advice at critical points in my business's development has been invaluable and continues to be so.”
Nicola Prior MCIPR (Accredited Practitioner)
“You not only told us what to do, you showed us how to do it.”
Lawrie Izzard - Managing Director,
Omar Homes Group.
“Your presentation was spot on - the content was just right and you presented it in an energetic and entertaining way.”
Miranda Wells - IoD Conferences Manager.
“You have brought the company a long way in a short space of time.”
Philip Speer - Corporate Solicitor
(referring to a mutual client).
“You portrayed much hard-won experience and I greatly enjoyed seeing through the eyes of a complementary area of our profession.”
Keith Gummery - Deloitte partner, now a senior interim finance executive.
“You provided exactly what we needed at the time.”
John Huntingdon - Principal,
Cambridge College of Agriculture.
“A good, balanced lecture and great to have real life examples of strategic planning.”
Tracey Johnson - ACCA UK.
"Selling the business that I created and had run for 15 years was difficult for me objectively. Stuart helped me see that some of my priorities were less important and kept me focused on the main goal which we eventually achieved."
Tom Moore - TMTS.
"It has been a real pleasure to have known Stuart over the last 10 years. Stuart has exceptional business acumen that has been proven to be correct in all my professional dealings with him. I have also found him a spiritually complete individual, in touch with the human heart, and able to 'light the fire'. His approach is very holistic, and he is able to naturally put himself in the other person's shoes in solving problems. Above all, he is approachable, warm, charitable and yet a very strong, decisive professional."
Salah Mirza FCCA MBA
