Founder/Facilitator
Paul Rieken
“Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities."
-Dr. Jordan B. Peterson-
Paul Rieken is the founder of Normative Point, LLC, a professional development consultancy in Lincoln, Nebraska. Paul facilitates transformative development initiatives that elevate performance, productivity, and morale, helping teams, leaders, and organizations achieve their highest potential and become the best versions of themselves.
Paul has over twenty-seven years of leadership experience in the private and public sectors, holding roles ranging from front-line supervisor to Executive Director.
He dedicated fourteen years of his career to leading training and development departments and facilitating thousands of hours of development initiatives. Paul's experience in dynamic work environments allowed him to thoroughly explore performance, productivity, and morale issues and design creative, personal, and practical methods to assess, address, and resolve those issues.
Paul's approach fosters engagement, promotes skill enhancement, and results in measurable improvements. Interactive team development initiatives enhance communication, collaboration, trust, efficiency, effectiveness, and more among team members. Transformative leadership development programs boost knowledge and skills, strengthening leadership competence, confidence, consistency, and credibility. Strategic planning sessions provide a clear, achievable, yet challenging roadmap for success. Innovative and customized training workshops offer information, tools, processes, and resources to boost performance. Cultural transformation processes provide the impetus to help organizations move toward more fully aligned, engaged, and thriving cultures.
Paul holds a Master's degree in Organizational Performance and a Bachelor's in Human and Social Services Administration from Bellevue University. He resides in Lincoln with his wife, Jennifer, and their highly spirited miniature poodle.
Mission-Vision-Purpose-Values
Our Mission:
To engage teams, leaders, and organizations in transformative training and development experiences that unlock potential, ignite performance, and create extraordinary outcomes.
Our Vision:
A future of work where exceptional leaders, high-performing teams, deeply engaged individuals, and thriving and dynamic workplaces are the norm.
Our Purpose:
We exist to inspire ideas, actions, and achievements that positively impact those within the workplace. We hope that the tools we teach and lessons we share reverberate beyond the organization's boundaries, ultimately benefitting families, friends, communities, and beyond.
Our Core Values:
Ethical behavior: doing what is right, even if it is difficult.
Positive connections: relationships built on trust, dignity, and respect.
Ownership: responsibility for everything within our scope of influence.
Innovation: creativity, new ideas, and continual learning.
Adaptability: flexibility to navigate change.
Humility: never getting too big for our britches.
Services
Team Alignment Initiatives
Forging collaborative, high-performing teams through assessments, experiential learning, and activities tailored to improve teamwork, communication, and trust.
Leadership Development
Maximizing leadership impact through tools, processes, and mindshifts that increase confidence, competence, and credibility.
Customized Training Workshops
Bridging skill gaps, increasing knowledge, and boosting performance through targeted learning experiences.
Strategic Planning
Aligning vision with strategic action to create a charted course to success.
Organizational Change Processes
Driving positive transformation by developing aligned, engaged, and thriving cultures.
Our Promise
We promise an unrivaled commitment to your professional development needs and your complete satisfaction with all tools, strategies, processes, and results throughout the lifespan of every development initiative.
After browsing the website, please use the contact page to schedule a free consultation to learn more about our services and fees. We would love to discuss how Normative Point, LLC can provide your organization with personal, practical, creative, and affordable professional development solutions.