Speaker Topics: Personal integrity and success in the workplace; How to deal with and cure values-challenged employees and business cultures.
Ron Newton has helped companies worldwide achieve success by focusing on the human factor potential of their people. He is an authority on the role of people skills as it affects wor k team dynamics. Ron has led the research, development and delivery of strategic human development efforts in many industry sectors dealing with high-risk behaviors. Translating his lengthy experience with t roubled youth into teaching platforms for businesses, he utilizes his in-demand speaking and writing skills to equip companies and workers with life skills, enabling them to reach their full potential and go als. His outstanding record includes creating and delivering training programs to improve employee synergy in a wide variety of industries worldwide. With his background of over twenty years as the director of a nonprofit outdoor camp ministry for troubled kids - Ron and his dynamic speaking skills have resulted in frequent speaking engagements at industry conferences and corporate gatherings across the country .
Ron founded the not-for-profit Wilderness Encounter Programs (WEP). By 1997, Ron's last year as its executive director, WEP had conducted over 1,500 days of wilderness programs invol ving 1,200 chronically troubled youth. In addition to counseling incarcerated youth, his program also touched the lives of those experiencing challenges from a wide range of causes-abuse, neglect, adoption, ving 1,200 chronically troubled youth. In addition to counseling incarcerated youth, his program also touched the lives of those experiencing challenges from a wide range of causes-abuse, neglect, adoption, divorce, drugs, and physical handicap. Ron applied this experience and his successful practices to business in 1992 when he answered the phone at his, then, program headquarters and listened to the plea of a desperate operations manager. "Are you the camp program that helps troubled kids?" "Yes," Ron replied. "Good. I have some for you-they're my employees."
Ron has been the featured speaker or seminar leader at numerous industry and organizational gatherings. His work in wilderness therapy has been the subject of a CBS-TV affiliate regi
onally syndicated report, a Fort Worth Star-Telegram feature article, and appearances on Dallas-Fort Worth radio talk shows (KCBI-FM and KLIF-AM). Ron's articles have appeared in industry periodicals such as
The Waterways Journal, Construction Business Owner, and RMInsights (American Society of Safety Engineers). He has contributed to Campus Life magazine and authored several papers on file in
the federal register. Ron Newton is president of Peak Training Solutions
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