I worked closely with Julie for several years when I was CEO of Austin Health and she a Senior Communications Consultant. Julie is an outstanding media and communications professional. She is creative, innovative and able to craft clear and succinct messages for a variety of audiences. She quickly focuses on the key issues in a communications challenge and provides balanced and sound advice along with great products. She fosters great relationships with relevant stakeholders and can effectively steer the media in her desired direction. I would be very happy to use her services in the future should the need arise.
Professor Brendan Murphy ACFormer CEO, Austin Health. Former CMO and Secretary, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
Julie is an absolute asset on any comms program. She quickly understands challenges and conceives solutions, and pairs this with a great ability to build relationships with and gain the trust of tricky stakeholders and C-suite leadership. I've worked with Julie across industries, I've seen her pitch to media and to client CEOs, and work incredibly quickly to nail a brief. With a superb creative mind and a keen nose for effectiveness, to planning campaigns and activity, Julie always improves the work she's involved in.
Hallie DonkinCommunications Director, Mahlab
In early 2025 we had the incredible good fortune to engage Julie McNamara as a Media and Public Relations Consultant to promote a World Titles sporting event on the Sunshine Coast. Julie was engaged through MacNeil & Co. Marketing and quickly was able to scope the critical aspects required to have the campaign reach its desired outcomes. In fact, our stated objectives were exceeded as we had several national outlets contact us to cover the event. One of the aspects that most impressed me was Julie's ability to create diverse and creative content with only minimal input from the events team. This directly led to multiple media outlets wanting to engage with us in a very short period of time and also created a very positive flow on effect for our sponsors who were equally delighted. It is with much gratitude to Julie that we provide this testimonial.
Lynda FranklinCo- Founder Coolum Bodysurfing Festival host to the Bodysurfing World Tour Finals 2025