The Newkirk Group
Specialists in Ulthule Coaching
Enablers of Executive Vision
Welcome to our Ulthule Coaching program. We designed it to enhance executive and management performance. Founded by Raymond L. Newkirk, Psy.D., Ph.D., Ph.D in the San Francisco Bay area, The Newkirk Group is a coaching and Softskills Improvement consultancy. We work with executives and their teams to enhance personal effectiveness in executing strategic action. The Newkirk Group provides Transformative Coaching, Communications Improvement, Tact & Diplomacy Consulting, Personal & Career Guidance, Mentoring, and Strategic Consulting to executives and managers actively committed to building more effective teams and enterprises.
These are exciting times for innovative leaders as they face the new opportunities for success offered by the challenges of 21st Century competition. The Newkirk Group enjoys discovering the opportunities hidden in these challenges. We receive great satisfaction from sharing the wealth of our experience, wisdom, and insights with clients as they leverage their challenges to capture the ever emerging opportunities for success.
The Newkirk Group Credo
We enjoy working with leaders as they journey into the unchartered territory of the 21st Century. Although we accept the conventional wisdom that "nothing under the sun is new," we also understand that the emerging business climate generates many challenges as opportunities that were scarcely imagined only a decade ago.
The Newkirk Group offers several carefully designed Ulthule programs that bridge the old leadership paradigms with the new. We offer powerful coaching programs for executives and their managers who feel uneasy about the modern business environment - its trends, techniques, and assumptions. We advocate executive success, skills based leadership, evolutionary guidance, and profitable growth. Our programs address three domains of the enterprise: (1) executive; (2) management, and (3) team. We work with clients at the personal, team, and enterprise levels to resolve their most pressing challenges.
Our programs emphasize the self-systems psychology of growth and the enhancement of effectiveness to attain competitive leverage. We know that today "sustainable competitive advantage" is another one of those business myths which have outlived their usefulness. We also know what to do about it. We excel at integrating theory with practice and balancing technical and social systems in the workplace. We are an innovative company who understands the practical realities of the competitive environment.
Our Mission
Raymond Newkirk designed The Newkirk Group with the complexities of today's world in mind - a world marked by the challenges of global trends that stretch the limits of 20th Century management approaches. We increase executive performance by introducing Ulthule coaching that enhances management skills to improve business value. As a leader in the design of executive and management coaching programs, The Newkirk Group specializes in strategic innovation to empower executive action.
The Newkirk Group Mission is clear: Leverage coaching solutions to empower executives and their teams to more effectively succeed in a global business environment. Our Ulthule Coaching approach enhances the effectiveness of executives and their teams to intiative 21st Century strategies. Serving both the public and private sectors, our mission is threefold:
- Provide executives with the coaching required to lead a successful enterprise into the 21st Century;
- Increase the profitability of organizations through the introduction of Ulthule guided management development, and
- Enhance knowledge and understanding of the increasingly relevant paradigm of human activity systems design.
Our Clients
While yesterday's quest was information and today's is knowledge, tomorrow's will be wisdom about business innovation and acceleration. Each quest demands an environment unique to itself. The Newkirk Group is your bridge between the old and new paradigms and supports the coaching and development needs of clients including:
- Executives and their teams wishing to enhance effectiveness and the value of work teams through high performance coaching strategies;
- Educators and corporate training managers wishing to develop a human activity systems view essential for furthering instruction in Softskills developmnent;
- Business and technical managers wishing to shift to tomorrow's paradigms today;
Our Services
The Newkirk Group recognizes that the need to make the paradigm shift in executive thinking and management practice is becoming more immediate as the trend toward embedded, more complex, and global work teams increases. We have developed effectiveness based programs in the development of effective human systems and offer coaching that promotes the development of successful executives and leaders as practitioners of the 21st Century business paradigm.
We offer a full range of services in the coaching, education, and development of high performance executive and management teams seeking more effective executive action. The Newkirk Group services include:
- Effectiveness Coaching
- Management & Leadership Effectiveness Evaluation
- Cultural Change Management
- Diversity Coaching
- Work Team Design
- Tact & Diplomacy Coaching
- Communications Skills Coaching
- Personal Career Management
Our Products
Supporting our coaching practice, we offer a significant catalogue of strategic reports, monographs, project deliverables, and executive briefings. In collaboration with the Systems Management Institute, we also sponsor seminars, workshops, and lectures to link theory with practice and improve leadership understanding of the design of effective human systems in business.