Expert Retreat Facilitating

by Al Siebert, Ph.D.

If you want your retreat to be highly successful, have a lasting effect, and be praised as extremely worthwhile, arrange for Dr. Al Siebert to be the facilitator/consultant. He has facilitated executive and leadership team retreats for over 30 years. A unique strength is that, when necessary, he can draw on his years of experience teaching management psychology.

Al Siebert's work includes serving as facilitator/consultant for the:

State of Oregon Executive Department reorganization meetings.
Tongass National Forest retreat to plan opening a large mining operation in the Misty Fjords National Monument.
Washington County and City of Beaverton fire department meetings to intergrate services into a combined operation.
Western Oregon College President and Adminstrators team building retreat.
Oregon State Bar Association staff retreat.
Project ACT retreat, Portland Public Schools.
Okanogan National Forest meetings for handling conflicts with the "Early Winters" ski resort development.
Linn-Benton Community College President, Adminstrators, and Department Heads team building retreat.
Lincoln County School District Annual Retreat for administrators.
U.S. Forest Service, Region Six, facilitator for facilitator training retreat.
Newberry Volcanic National Monument Visioning Retreat after the US Congress created the monument in Forest Service lands.
Pacific Medical Equipment Suppliers Boards of Directors mission statement retreat.
Umpqua National Forest Leadership Team reorganization and restructuring, with follow-up assessment.
City of Hillsboro annual retreat for the City Manager, Bureau and Department Heads.
Willamette National Forest and Siuslaw National Forest Decision Team sessions for integrating certain operations into a combined Zone-Area-Province unit.
Tacoma School District Superintendant and Cabinet team building retreat.
Southwest Oregon Province Executive Comittee retreat assessing progress on the President's Northwest Forest Plan.

Dr. Siebert taught seminars in management psychology for the Professional Development Center at Portland State University for over 30 years. A native Oregonian, Al is an ex-paratrooper and a graduate of Willamette University. He received his M.A. and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan. His public service includes serving for seven years on the Multnomah County School Board, being a volunteer rap group leader with Vietnam veterans, citizen representative on the Portland Police Internal Audit Committee, and volunteer consultant to the Northwest Indians Veterans Association.

Dr. Al Siebert is recipient of the Oregon's governor's award for his selection as the State of Oregon's 1993 "External Training Consultant of the Year" for his work during the layoff of 4000 state employees.

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