Dave Newick is a senior executive by profession having successfully started up several businesses, worked for multinationals and sat on company boards. Today he manages business transformations, getting businesses to fulfill their potential through energising and focusing people and designing and executing strategies.
In 2012, Dave became the President of the most successful football (soccer) club in New Zealand, Birkenhead United, leading them to six national titles, one league title and growing the club by just under 100% in five years. This is a voluntary role delivered in excess of the day today demands of a professional career.
Football is a passion as is his family. and friends. Happily married to Sharon for 25 years in May 2017, David has two adult children, Bridget and Matthew.
Leading into the Camino trip, Dave had completed a significant business divestment and integration and had resigned to head to a new challenge. The gap of three months between employers while on full pay was an unusual opportunity which coincided with turning 50 years in March.
After seeing the movie ‘The Way’ starring Martin Sheen some years before, a seed had been planted to one day do the Camino.
At the urging of his wife to take the time and do something for himself, he left New Zealand with one weeks notice, a new pair of boots and a new pack to head to the Camino Portuguese.
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