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Newberry Executive Solutions - Mentor or Coach of the Year

Gold Stevie Award Winner 2021, Click to Enter The 2022 STevie Awards for Women in Business

Company: Newberry Executive Solutions, LLC
Company Description: Newberry Executive Solutions provides leadership resources and coaching to help women achieve business results through Purpose, Presence, and Power. Recognized for our impact, we get rave reviews about our products and services from Fortune 500 clients and nonprofits like the George W Bush Presidential Center, and Neena Newberry has been recognized with several awards.
Nomination Category: Individual Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Mentor or Coach of the Year – Business

Nomination Title: Neena Newberry

Neena Newberry is a thirteen-time award-winning speaker, author, and executive coach. She had a successful 16-year management consulting and human resources career, including a role on Deloitte’s U.S. HR Executive Team supporting 34,000 employees. In 2008, she launched Newberry Executive Solutions (NES) to focus on her passion for developing strong leaders.

Neena translated her years of experience to helpleaders think and play big in a way that works for them – by taking their confidence, impact and careers to the next level without compromising what matters most to them.Neena receives rave reviews from multi-billion dollar companies such as AT&T, McKesson, PepsiCo, and Sysco. Over 75% of her executive coaching clients get promoted within 12-18 months.

Neena successfully launched NES in an economic downturn. Through her passion and commitment, her business has accomplished double- or triple-digit growth each year since 2009, with 2019 being the most successful year. A business-builder, risk taker, and innovator, Neena is always looking for ways to have a bigger impact. That has led her to develop award-winning products like New Lens®, a mobile app that makes high-impact leadership development and coaching scalable.

Neena consistently invests in elevating leaders and giving back to her community, innovating and growing. In 2019, Neena’s company had double-digit growth and its best financial year. In 2020, her New Lens app received a Gold Stevie Award for Best New Product. In 2021, her business is on track to surpass 2019’s results.

Throughout her breast cancer treatment in 2020, Neena coached pro bono and assembled a group of executive coaches to give pro bono coaching to over 25 nonprofit organizations. Throughout 2020, she constantly created and distributed free leadership resources (articles, videos and a podcast) to help others navigate the unprecedented challenges. As a founding member and Advisory Council member of a $12 million United Way Fund for Women and Children, Neena helped design a micro-lending pilot in 2020 and 2021 to give hard-hit minority female business owners in Dallas access to capital they could not otherwise get.

In addition, as a board member of Texas Women’s Foundation (one of the largest funds for women in the world), Neena assisted with their state-wide expansion and fundraising for the Resilience Fund which has provided grants during the pandemic. And as hate crimes escalated, Neena played a lead role in designing and launching a virtual Leadership Forum to raise almost $300K for nonprofits investing in Asian Americans in need. With the planning committee, she provided almost 600 women across 50 major corporations with access to advice and inspiration from Asian American women executives and pro bono access to the New Lens app.

Neena has always believed in the power that one person has to make a difference, and she demonstrates that in how she lives her life. She has been recognized with thirteen awards in total from the Dallas Business Journal, United Way, Stevie Awards, and HR.com. Neena also serves on boards or committees of five nonprofits while running a successful business as a single mom. Through her breast cancer in 2020, she invested at least 20 hours per month to give back to her community and challenged herself to innovate and elevate her profession. In her business, Neena helps women get results they couldn’t before and has a proven track record (75% of her clients get promoted within 12-18 months of their work together). In her nonprofit work, she supports women and children facing economic hardship.

Neena developed the award-winning New Lens app to make leadership development tools and resources more widely accessible to employees who cannot afford an executive coach and to organizations struggling with how to develop their employees in this increasingly complex, virtual world. Her first two pilot clients were Fortune 500 companies. Neena’s ongoing investment in self-development allows her to bring her best to her clients and set an example for other coaches. She is pursuing the Master Certified Coach credential (held by less than 5% of coaches) and mentors other coaches. She served on the local chapter board of the International Coach Federation for 5 years.

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Neena’s dedication to service is further demonstrated by the following:

Neena has also donated over 1,700 copies of her book,Show Up. Step Up. Step Out.and publishes biweekly articles that reach over 1.4 million people (see The EDGE blog).She serves on the inaugural Advisory Council for the Senator Jane Nelson Institute for Women Leaders, collaborating with leaders state-wide to develop a nationally recognized institute focused on student leadership at Texas Woman’s University. In addition, Neena served on the Leadership committee for 2020 Women on Boards (now 50/50 Women on Boards) to increase the number of women on corporate boards.

Through her board role with Akola (nonprofit), Neena also works to lift women in Uganda out of poverty by teaching them a marketable trade, critical leadership skills, and financial management. Neena has also taught and coached women globally as faculty for the George W. Bush Presidential Center (see her article). She helped design the program spearheaded by Laura Bush which empowers women in Egypt and Tunisia to catalyze change.