Richard Neulight

Mr. Neulight, president of National Management Strategies, Inc., a Lehigh Valley based business consulting firm, graduated Franklin and Marshall College and earned his Masters degree from Temple University. A college professor early in his career he instructed management, marketing and merchandising, the administration of justice, and all facets of communication: speaking, writing, and non-verbal. The greater part of interpersonal communication is conducted silently. Rick has introduced Kinesics (Body Language) to business people from all over the world, and understandably has been retained to assist in complex business dealings: “C” level interviewing, employee motivation, company acculturation, mock jury trials, and sensitive negotiations of all descriptions. Rick has been a lifetime entrepreneur engaged at one time or another in manufacturing, distribution and retail, in both products and services. He has frequently been enlisted as a “special resource” to both the Ben Franklin Technology Center and the Iacocca Institute of Lehigh University, a business “think tank.” He served as Chief of Staff at the Iacocca Institute during the Department of Defense project resulting in the introduction of Agile Manufacturing and the Agile workforce. He authored a written Scenario depicting the manufacturing culture of the future, highlighting the issues affecting Empowering Individuals and Teams, and Continuous Learning. Mr. Neulight has assisted numerous companies in structuring their ‘corporate identity’ and controlling and managing the flow of information that determines what stakeholders believe about your company. For over thirty years, Rick has assisted companies in building and sustaining a managed-growth architecture, and is probably most well-known for his success in turnaround or rescue of closely held or family-owned businesses. His point of view: The centerpiece of turnaround is in the creation of a thriving company culture. A skillful negotiator, Rick Neulight is a recognized authority on the subject of human dynamics in business interaction, and in the culture of the American work place