About Newman HR
About Newman HR
Newman Human Resources Consulting provides a complete range of Human Resources Management Services.
Using Newman Human Resources as your HR support, you will reduce costs, increase productivity through future-oriented business diagnosis of human resources issues, with assessments, strategic planning, recruiting, talent management, rewards and change management.
How we can help
With Newman Human Resources as your Human Resources business partner, you will get, practical, pragmatic and humane HR Solutions suited to your business needs, leveraging Frank’s 35 years of experience in HR. Frank and his team of associates can develop HR solutions for any people issue, tailored to your circumstances.
What Differentiates Newman HR Consulting from other HR Companies?
- Frank is an HR leader with a "do the right thing" approach - practical, realistic, common sense, knowledgeable - "we can fix it" as well as grow your business
- Focus on small businesses - understanding the small business owner to provide the best HR Solutions
- Over 35 years of Human Resources experience - through good and bad business cycles, through multiple industries
- Regional accessibility - know the Kitchener - Waterloo, Guelph, Cambridge region and issues because we are here so our HR Solutions are on target
- Passion for what we do - creating great companies has been a lifetime focus
- Established track record in HR - long list of deliverables in HR Solutions
- Recognition - As an HR Professional Frank has been recognized for his achievements in HR
- Team of Experts - using Frank's 35 years of business experience as an HR Professional, he knows the best people to get the job done across the full range of employee and business issues
Frank Newman BA, CHRL
Frank Newman is an HR professional who has led significant business change initiatives. He is a Certified Human Resources Leader who has the ability to work top down and on the shop floor simultaneously, creatively developing end to end solutions for people engagement and business success. He builds credibility with internal teams from front line staff to executive level decision makers.
With a dual focus on increasing employee engagement and business effectiveness, his work has led to the creation of strong positive business cultures and efficient HR organizations.
His extensive experience as both a Human Resources Specialist (Total Rewards, Talent Management), and as a Strategic HR Business Partner, has built his reputation as a trusted problem solver who can diagnose and lead businesses through complex multi-year initiatives, often through challenging business cycles.
His innovative and pioneering solutions in staffing, downsizing, and employee policies have been recognized as best practices by industry and the Canadian government. His pioneering work on Compassionate Leave was adapted by the Federal Government as a basis for the Employment Insurance Compassionate Care Leave program.
After an extensive career as an HR leader working for some of Canada’s leading
employers, Texaco Canada, GlaxoSmithKline and Manulife, he founded Newman Human Resources Consulting Inc. in 2014. With his consulting office located in Cambridge, he is ideally situated to service clients in Guelph, Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and south-west Ontario.
In addition to his Bachelor’s degree in English from Victoria College from the University of Toronto, he made an investment in life-long learning, becoming a Certified Human Resource Leader now.
To make sure he met the standards and was able to initiate best practices, as a human resource manager he took advantage of industry courses, and those offered by his employers.
- Certified Human Resources Leader
- Bachelor of Arts, English, Victoria College, University of Toronto
- Leading Technical Professionals, Blessing White
- Human Resources Management, Queen’s University
- Consulting Models, Lawler Consultants
- Accelerating Change Management, ACM Consultants
- Lean Sigma/Lean Manufacturing, GlaxoSmithKline
- Human Resources & Communications, Dale Carnegie
- Blue Ocean Thinking, Schulich School of Business
- University of Toronto, Certificate in Personnel & Industrial Relations
- Member, Human Resources Professional Association of Ontario
As a trusted HR Business Partner and Advisor, Frank has worked in HR with business leaders in Finance, Pharmaceuticals, Semi-Conductors and Oil & Gas on business transformations and change initiatives including start-ups, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, outsourcing and organizational performance improvement.
Positions in Human Resources
Frank has worked in HR positions with increasing responsibilities in human resources, including HR Manager for international corporations in Toronto, Mississauga and as a Human Resources Manager and in positions including HR Director and Assistant Vice President.
He has led teams of HR professionals to support multiple businesses in Canada, US, Mexico, Europe & Asia.
Frank has worked for some of Canada’s best practice employers including:
- Manulife Financial
- Gennum/Semtech
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Texaco Canada Inc
FRANK IS A PROUD PARTNER OF:
Newman HR advises and provides business mentorship to:
Frank is an Innovator, with elegant solutions to problems. He didn’t realize one solution would become one of National Importance
Federal Government Compassionate Leave provisions for Employment
- Significant collaboration with the Federal government contributed to the development of the Compassionate Leave provisions for Employment Insurance. The principles and practices developed have been adopted as best human resources practices by numerous organizations.
- Innovative work in recruiting was featured in Forbes e-business magazine.
