As specialist in the challenges of leadership, he is frequently engaged to talk on strategy, culture, change, collaboration, performance, growth, communication, innovation and resilience.
Siebert brings to his work and to his presentations profound, practical experience in leadership, as well as deep knowledge from a distinguished academic career.
He holds six tertiary qualifications including a Master’s Degree in International Business from Sydney University, where he finished top of his year.
Most importantly he is a brilliant storyteller, and infuses his talks with fascinating anecdotes and examples collected from his rich personal experience and extensive research.
He calibrates his talks to the audience – light-hearted but informative entertainment when that’s appropriate; more intellectual rigour when required.
Siebert has overcome deep personal loss and tragedy in his life, and adds unparalleled depth of empathy to his work, while communicating with humour, style and great awareness of the needs of his audience.
He was rated by the Institute for International Research as one of the five best speakers on management nationally. His speaking engagements include work for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Anschutz Europe, several listed companies, government departments in five countries, non-for-profit organisations and small group gatherings.
This is what others say of his presentations:
Siebert is a highly engaging speaker. By using his personal experience from having worked in several countries around the world, he was able to captivate our audience in way that made them question their own approaches and identifying personal areas for improvement. He is motivational, but at the same time grounded. He balances strategy on one hand with down to earth execution on the other. His talk balanced strategy implementation with everyday actions, giving his audience a great framework to effectively reaching the goals we strive towards as an organisation.
You were a sensation! That of course was to be expected, as (the person who recommended you) is a hard judge of facilitators and does not impress easily.
The feedback from staff was very encouraging with many rating your culture and change presentation and evening keynote as excellent. Staff enjoyed and I believe respected the opportunity to be actively involved in discussions where they could make a contribution. Professionally and personally it was a pleasure to work with you. Thank you again for your inclusive, engaging and thought-provoking contribution.
My thanks to you for speaking to our new editors about leadership. The feedback from them was overwhelmingly positive and there were many aspects of your presentation that they were still referring to in the days following. The other piece of feedback of course was that they would have liked your session to be longer. I’ve recommended that we should invite you to work with the group again shortly after we implement.
Just a quick note to thank you for the wonderful job you did today! It was inspiring as well as providing the staff with some practical insights and tools. It was exactly what I had wanted for the last session of the conference. As discussed, we have only just embarked on a new leadership journey within this Division, and I look forward to working with you in the future, as we continue to better enable our staff to lead change and deliver results for Australians. It has been a pleasure working with you.
As usual you gave a sterling performance and demonstrated so much of what all of us can aspire to in terms of professionalism, commitment and passion. I think it’s great for our guys to spend time with you for these reasons.
I wanted to let you know that I was very inspired by your presentation at the ATO leadership conference today. I’ve seen you in action a few times now and you have an amazing talent.
