Ellie Goldstone

Ellie is a Business Consultant with a unique perspective from an innovation and entrepreneurial background and is a keen problem solver. She has a natural solution focused mindset and thrives within challenging environments. She embraces the opportunity to use her initiative when overcoming obstacles and has a passion for networking and effective communication. Ellie is confident with both leading and contributing to a team. She prides herself in her accomplishments as a self-starter. Ellie is extremely efficient and embodies a strong sense of motivation.

In my current position as a Business Consultancy Graduate at Frazer-Nash, I undertake a variety of roles engaged in both internal and client facing projects. I have been successfully contributing to and leading internal capability development programmes, creating outputs such as change impact assessments, and service catalogues. Additionally, I recently acquired the role of event manager for FNConnect, a new and growing start-up network.  I have been receiving consistently positive feedback from supervisors and impress colleagues with capabilities that surpass expectations. I believe this is because of my unique perspective gained from my Innovation degree, which is complemented by interpersonal skills developed through years of working in client facing roles. 

Univercity of Bristol: First Class Honours MSCI: Psychology with Innovation 

The central features of my degree studies were collaboration and entrepreneurship. I lead and supported projects focusing on product development and problem solving, allowing me to gain experience across a variety of sectors within the start-up ecosystem. 

I have worked on an array of projects with a broad variety of individuals from a range of disciplines to reach unique solutions to proposed problems. These include: the development of a protein bar made from waste products of beer production; using speculative design for Covid intervention; designing a library; and building a community of pond makers. These experiences have been invaluable in allowing me to grow as a team player, as a leader, and as a problem solver. 

Outside of my degree, I threw myself into opportunities to gain experience within the start-up world through internships, volunteering, and as a founder. Volunteering and attending the 2019 Lisbon WebSummit sparked my fascination with the world of networking and start-up support, themes that have remained at the forefront of my interest ever since. Creating and hosting extracurricular events such as ICE, an innovation careers expo, and founding a community sandwich shop during the Covid pandemic, I realised that I thrive and most enjoy contexts in which I am working with people and love solving the logistical problems that often arise with such events. 

I was able to channel these interests into both of my final year dissertations. I simultaneously carried out a fascinating psychological research project into the motivation and moral impacts of networking, while creating and developing a micro-accelerator events company for my innovation dissertation. I lead a team to build a thriving ecosystem from scratch, an organisational feat that has given me a unique perspective on relationship building and development from both an academic and practical point of view.