Dr. Ray Newkirk Executive Coach

Dr. Newkirk’s Coaching History

Dr. Newkirk more formally began developing his UlThule™ Coaching approach while as Founder of the Monterey Bay Management Group (MBMG) in California with Dr. Gene Kerfoot, a renowned Redecision Psychotherapist, as collaborator. From the outset, we did not particularly like the idea of being referrred to as a “Coaching Company” because the ideal of coaching was well-entrenched in high schools, colleges, and professional sports. Moreover what we were doing was not a sport at all but something vitally serious in assisting clients with solving crucial, and often complex problems that negatively impacted their personal and professional lives. Our clients required effecive solution plans, rapidly, and not coaching formations or coaching plays. Our problem-solving is quite a bit different. We are more collaorators than coaches as we assist clients with more rapidly mastering the solutions they require to attain rapid growth and personal transformation. We are masters at contributing evidence-based insights that encoruage rapid growth in clients through the mastery of new skills and solution plans.

The attainment of rapid growth is what our client assistance approach is all about. Fundamentally, we see our mission as delivering the assitance required to transform clients into masters of Rapid Problem-Solving. Today we see this as a special kind of coaching that encourages clients to attain performance at the Ultimate Thule level, the ultimate or highest level of performance possible. This is UlThule™ Coaching, and it is the Framework for everything we do to assist clients. With each passing year, we now see that Rapid Problem-Solving is rapildy become the new necessity in management practice and action and enterprisewide Change Management. UlThule™ Coaching is radically innovative. Today, we see significant organization working hard to adapt our vision and principles in their own organization. It is the new problem-solving mindset. The result for us is a partnership with Systems Management Institute and access to its Intelligent Platform.

Dr. Newkirk seeks the same result regardless of a client’s situation: Client Success. Although every client is different, every client desires the same coaching result an: Effective Outcome. Dedicated to ensuring this outcome, Dr. Newkirk has navigated his way through a wild wilderness of different social attitudes that have emerged over the years, especially attitudes about Coaching and its potential to assist clients who experience a wide range of personal and professional challenges. Transitioning from Adviser, Teacher, Trainer, and Seminar Presenter to Senior Executive, Behavioral Scientist, Psychologist, Consulting Specialist and UlThule™ Coach, Dr. Newkirk paved the way for the development of the “Intelligent Platform” and “the advent of “Rapid Real-Time, Evidence-Based Solutions”. He remains focused on assisting clients with solving their problems rapidly as they unlock their potential to be creative, confident, realistic, and potent individuals who see personal transformation as a life-long process.

When Dr. Newkirk began coaching, there were very few efforts to change the problem-solving process. Dr. Newkirk actually wanted to change “how the world solves problems” one client at a time. He fully realized what probably everyone went through simply to solve problems in organizations, one step at a time. He also understood quite well that the cost of problem-solving exceeded the cost of operations in most organizations.  As a CEO himself, he knew quite well that the process people employed to solve problems in organizations was indeed a competitive disadvantage. Even way back then, Dr. Newkirk was convinced that there had to be a better way to solve problem. There had to be a better approach than the traadition six or eight step commonly-used process that people suffered through to solve problems, hopefully the right problems.

Many decades ago, Dr. Newkirk realized that Problem-Solving generally occurs through a six to eight step process that often returns incorrect or ineffective results.  Imagine that, working hard to deliver the wrong solution to a biting problem. Beyond this, Dr. Newkirk realized that many people frequently work hard to solve the wrong problem. He saw that it is a frequent occurrence. The solution may be correct, but the problem solved was the wrong problem because the problem was often misstated. Imagine that! People work hard to solve the wrong problems. Is this possible? Can it possibly be true? Of course it is. It is more common than you would ever imagine. Competitors love it because they suffer through the same challenge.

Dr. Newkirk became convinced at a very early age that Rapid Problem-Solving was the anwer. Obviously he saw something back then that people today are only beginning to realize. Dr. Newkirk worked on this mission for years. He had formed his Rapid Problem-Solving vision and now he looked for a way to bring it to the world, even if he had to do it one client at a time. After many years of development, testing, refining, and expanding his ideas to reach the globe, Dr. Newkirk has introduced his UlThule™ Coaching Approach as his unique method for ensuring coaching effectiveness for indisiduals and entire organizations. Indeed, Dr. Newkirk’s UlThule™ Coaching forms a single coaching approach that unifies coaching, problem-solving, and personal potency.

Through the application of his evidence-based solutions environment, Dr. Newkirk designed a more potent, dynamic, and assistive Coaching approach that uniquely addresses the challenges of each client. Today, Dr. Newkirk’s Intelligent Platform consists of many thousands of solutions that can assist clients nearly anywhere in the world. This enables the clients of Dr. Newkirk to find solutions that can assist them with transformation as a life-long process. Such a Coaching Approach presents an opportunity for clients to participate in their personal or professional growth as a continuous and life-long process. Dr. Newkirk’ s Applied Intuitive Solutions™ (AIS™) Intelligent Platform has taken more than 50 years to develop and has become the most significant problem-solving platform anywhere. Dr. Newkirk’s Intelligent Platform presents a new paradigm for individual and team Coaching and problem-solving.

UlThule™ Coaching is not for everyone. Nothing is for everyone. UlThule™ Coaching success occurs whenever the client’s attitude is aligned with the situation, the client’s desire is authentic, and the client’s commitment is consistent. You see UlThule™ Coaching is not merely a process that delivers advice shared with a client by a coach. Dr. Newkirk is not in the advice giving business. UlThule™ Coaching is a way of thinking and living that is comprehensive. It does not fragment the person by islolating a specific problem as if it is a disconnected reality of the client. UlThule™ Coaching is historical in the sense that it has its roots in the Ancient Romans, “Ultima Thule!”. UlThule™ Coaching can assist individuals, teams, groups, oganizations, and entire enterprises. UlThule™ Coaching is best for clients when “good enogh” is not really good enough. It is for client who undestand that exceptional is good enough. The vision that igited the emergence of UlThule™ Coaching is a deep and noble one. Today, many people seem to have misplaced their personal potency. UlThule™ Coaching exists to correct this deficiency of a highly technological age by igniting the potency of each client.