Profile
Dr.
Newman is an International Consultant, Policy Advisor and Author with nearly four decades of experience, visits to over one third of the countries in Africa and beyond. Her career indicates an amalgam of Private Sector, Public Sector and Social Sector, with multi-layered experience and professional relationships in Regulation, Banking, Development Finance, Nongovernmental Organizations, Professional Networks and Multilateral Agencies. Roles she has occupied include cross functional staff roles from entry level to the C-Suit, CEO, Board of Directors and Advisory Board Member, Business and National Policy Advisor, Lead Consultant and Juror.
She is a likeable results-focused person with proven success in developing progressive relationships across entities, aligning strategy, structure, people, policies and systems to optimize individual, organizational and systemic performance in executive, non-executive and advisory roles.
Her almost four three Decades of industry work and consulting experience include a State-owned Development Finance Institution in Nigeria, four Nigerian Commercial Banks, one of the Global Big 4 Consulting Firms, a Limited by Guarantee Special Purpose Professional Services Firm and now Policy Advisory, International Consulting and Writing.
Her areas of work and consulting experience includes Strategy Conceptualization & Implementation; Organisational Diagnostics; Organisational Design and Development; Executive Selection; Coaching and Development for Performance; Design & Deployment of Corporate Governance Systems; Director Development; Policy Advisory, Individual and Systemic Performance Improvement in Stable, Pre and Post Major Capital Restructuring Transactions such as Acquisitions and Mergers, as well as Corporate Turnaround Situations, as well as Transformation.
She has consulted for firms across the Financial Services Sector, Regulators in Banking, Insurance, Capital Market, as well as Regulators in Aviation and Health Sectors; International Pharmaceuticals; Conglomerates; Professional Networks & Associations; a Major State Government in Nigeria; Transformation of a former National Fertilizer Company; Private & Public Sector Oil & Gas Entities; Sub Regional Institutions; and two (2) Nigerian Electricity Distribution Companies, and an Agency of the African Union. Her professional profile therefore, presents a hybrid of Development Finance, Private Sector Banking, Regulation, Performance Improvement Consulting and Policy Advisory.
Dr Newman, who frequently describes herself as a global citizen, proudly African and of Nigerian extraction, believes optimization is possible with viable partnerships and collaborations, and failure is relative, because many of the currently disenfranchised can thrive, if effectively engaged.
Vision and
Purpose
The Middle East, Asia and Africa corridor is the new global frontier, with diverse jurisdictions that are distinct in nature, positioning, and endowment.
However, some countries in this region have remained “potentials” on account of differing human and institutional capabilities, leading to suboptimal leverage of alliances and attendant negative impact on growth.
My sense is that right governance systems, institutional capacity and environments could set sovereign states and constituent corporates on the correct trajectory for desirable outcomes for business, life and living.
My vision and purpose are to advance advisory and thought in Policy Advocacy and Implementation of Regulation, Systems Review, Continuous Improvement, Governance, Transformational Leadership and Sustainable Development; and I believe these are globally expedient interventions in most systems.
Personal
Philosophy
I am passionate about helping people, organizations and systems to be the best that they can be. I believe in transformational leadership, within Japanese-management and continued-performance-improvement orientation, where established and innovative principles, team work, self-directed learning and coaching are natural outcomes of this leadership style. I seek to create sustainable impact and promote unrelenting service to God, country, continent, the world and humanity.
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