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About us
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About change
We know that great change strategies are most frequently developed by strong internal capabilities and executed by people directly engaged in a powerful, simple and innovative process. This is how we facilitate change.
Our ‘New Futures’ Mission
Our mission is to develop leaders and teams that have profound positive impact on the futures of their people, their organisations and their countries.
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Our Team
RON MCLUCKIE
Founder & Managing Partner – New Futures
PENNY MCLUCKIE
Partner – New Futures
Ron’s passion is challenging conventional development approaches and finding far better ways of developing individual, team and organization capability. He is a Master Action Learning coach and also focus heavily on leadership team coaching. Ron has held senior corporate, lecturing, consulting and entrepreneur roles in 4 countries and gained extensive experience from a broad range of consulting assignments in a further 5 countries. He holds a number of graduate and post graduate qualifications in human resource management, industrial psychology and business administration, as well as many other specialist qualifications. Ron is a strong family man, loves travelling to exciting new places, adventure sports, nature and reading
Penny plays a major support role in New Futures. She is a Professional Action Learning Coach and certified psychometrics administrator. She manages the administration of New Futures, conducts Action Learning group coaching workshops and looks after our critical client service initiatives. Penny holds a Bachelors degree in the human sciences and a number of specialist qualifications in psychometrics, behaviour analysis and related fields. She started her career in radiography and subsequently moved into the learning and development world. Penny has gained substantial international experience supporting jointly owned consultancies in a number of countries. She is a great family person, loves travel, reading, gardening and organising things
GREG BARNIER
Principal Consultant – New Futures
Greg is a human capital practice leader, management consultant and business coach with recognition as a successful chief people officer and leader in human resource management.. Experienced at C-suite level in HR management consulting, small business consulting, human resources leadership, shared services and financial services. Thrives on coaching leaders to build highly engaged and productive teams. Greg holds numerous professional qualifications including a Master or Business Coaching, Advanced Diploma of Government, Diploma of Positive Psychology and Wellbeing and many others. Greg plays an invaluable role in supporting New Futures on high level development projects
DR. MICHAEL MARQUARDT
Action Learning Authority
Dr. Michael Marquardt is Professor Emeritus of Human Resource Development and International Affairs at George Washington University. He was a co-founder and first President of the World Institute for Action Learning (WIAL), and now serves as Chair of the WIAL Global Advisory Committee.
Mike has held a number of senior management, training and marketing positions with organizations such as Grolier, American Society for Training and Development, Association Management, Overseas Education Fund, TradeTec, and U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Dr. Marquardt has trained more than 100,000 managers in nearly 150 countries since beginning his international experience in Spain in 1969. Consulting assignments have included Marriott, Microsoft, Sony Music, Goodrich, Motorola, Nortel, Alcoa, Boeing, Caterpillar, United Nations Development Program, Xerox, Nokia, Constellation, Samsung, Organization of American States, and Singapore Airlines as well as the governments of Indonesia, Laos, Ethiopia, Zambia, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Russia, Jamaica, Honduras, and Swaziland.
Mike has held a number of senior management, training and marketing positions with organizations such as Grolier, American Society for Training and Development, Association Management, Overseas Education Fund, TradeTec, and U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Dr. Marquardt has trained more than 100,000 managers in nearly 150 countries since beginning his international experience in Spain in 1969. Consulting assignments have included Marriott, Microsoft, Sony Music, Goodrich, Motorola, Nortel, Alcoa, Boeing, Caterpillar, United Nations Development Program, Xerox, Nokia, Constellation, Samsung, Organization of American States, and Singapore Airlines as well as the governments of Indonesia, Laos, Ethiopia, Zambia, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Russia, Jamaica, Honduras, and Swaziland.
Dr. Marquardt’s achievements and leadership have been recognized though numerous awards including the International Practitioner of the Year Award from the American Society for Training and Development and the Scholar of the Year Award from the Academy of Human Resource Development. His writings and accomplishments in action learning have earned him honorary doctoral degrees from universities in Asia, Europe and North America.
He received his doctorate in Human Resource Development from George Washington University and his Masters and Bachelor Degrees from Maryknoll College. Dr. Marquardt has done graduate work at Harvard, Columbia and the University of Virginia. He enjoys skiing, folk music and traveling with his Swiss wife, four children and ten grandchildren.
Network of Professional Consultants
New Futures offers a network of highly skilled consultants and coaches to provide specialist support on your projects. Our consultants typically have over 20 years’ experience in senior executive leadership roles, have consulted to multiple sectors both in NZ and across the world and have coached leaders, boards and teams for breakthrough performance.
Our Professional Partners
WIAL is the world’s leading body for providing leading edge Action Learning processes, research, solutions and certification. WIAL Action Learning has been embraced by numerous organisations around the world as the preferred method of solving complex challenges and simultaneously developing individual, team and organisation capability.
New Futures is an official ‘Wial Partner’ and is headed by one of only 13 Master Action Learning coaches certified globally.
The Global Team Coaching Institute (GTCI) is the world’s first educational hub dedicated to Team Coaching. As the global destination for team coaching, the Global Team Coaching Institute (GTCI) by WBECS brings the world’s brightest minds in Team Coaching together in one place. It is where the world’s foremost team coaching experts come to teach, where coaches come to become the best and where organizations come to find the best coaches in team leadership.
New Futures has fully embraced the GTCI team coaching methodologies and tools as foundation resources and key team members are certified GTCI team coaches
Psytech International is one of the world’s leading developers of psychometric tests and software for the workplace. With worldwide representation covering multiple languages, Psytech are ‘Global Leaders of psychometric assessments and solutions for the workplace’. Psytech’s GeneSys Online is an assessment administration platform designed to administer, score and report on the extensive range of occupational assessments and solutions offered by Psytech International.
New Futures is an accredited Psytech partner and supports a broad range of client talent acquisition, individual, team and organsiation development solutions.