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Leadership Partners was co-founded by Sandra Sieb and Tim Laporte, two of the most experienced and trained Leadership Advisors in the APAC.
We are supported by a network of highly experienced colleagues, people whom we all deeply trust professionally and personally with strong academic backgrounds and diverse professional experiences.
Sandra Sieb
Co-Founder
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Co-Founder
Sandra Sieb is passionate about bringing more awareness, purpose and courage into organisations as a means to successfully navigate today’s complexity. Paired with the art of inquiring and active listening, she believes these attributes are at the heart of creating effective leadership contexts where quality relationships and courageous conversations can occur.
Sandra started her career in management consulting at Booz Allen & Hamilton in New York (Now Strategy&), working on large strategy, operations and organisation projects in various industries. During her consulting years, Sandra developed strong strategic and project management skills and the ability to deal with complex situational and interpersonal challenges that required constant adaptability. After moving to Australia in 2005, Sandra decided to focus on supporting senior leaders and completed her Masters of Coaching Psychology at Sydney University.
Today, as the co-founder of Leadership Partners, she blends her coaching and consulting skills to create leadership development journeys for C-suite executives and their teams. Journeys that help them increase their strategic and system thinking skills, broaden their emotional competencies, and develop trusting environments in their organisations. She helps organisations foster collective intelligence and create environments where challenging conversations become not only possible but encouraged. Sandra has also been an Adjunct Faculty for the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) - UNSW Executive Education, specialising in High Performing Teams and has taught classes in Managing People and Organisations, Management Skills and Positive Psychology at UTS.
Having been raised in Egypt, studied in France, started her career in New York and living in Sydney for the past 10 years, Sandra is quite experienced with change herself. Sandra’s strength lies in her ability to help leaders find clarity in complexity and deal with ambiguity. Her genuine empathy allows her to challenge her clients in a non-confronting way. She is regarded for her highly analytical, structured and pragmatic mindset as well as her great interpersonal skills that allow her to quickly connect and create trust with people at all levels. Some of her recent clients include Air Liquide, CEVA Animal Health, ICAP, Air France, NSW Government Health.
Sandra also believes in the importance of supporting younger generations and developing awareness from a young age. She has taught ethics classes in her local primary school and coached and mentored several teenagers through not-for-profit organisations The Helmsman Project and the Raise Foundation, where she has been a volunteer for the past few years.
Academic qualifications & Professional affiliations
- Master's Degree, Applied Science - Psychology of Coaching, University of Sydney, Australia
- Masters of Science of Management, HEC Paris, France
- Law Degree, Université La Sorbone, Paris, France
- Bachelor, Economics and Finance, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France
- University of Sydney Mentoring Alumni Association
- International Coaching Federation
Leadership Development Practitioner
- Former Adjunct faculty, Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM, UNSW) – Executive Education, High Performing Teams program
- Teaching Assistant at Undergraduate and Post-Graduate levels, UTS, Managing People and Organisations, Management Skills and Positive Psychology
- Certified Practitioner – Global Leadership Profile, The Leadership Circle, LSI, Lominger 360 Voice, DISC, Self-Leadership Lab, NLP EQ
Areas of Expertise
- C-Suite Leader Coaching
- Executive Team assessment and development
- High Performing Teams
- Process and strategy consultation
- Strategic and system thinking skills
- Communication: difficult conversations, conflict resolutions, presentation and writing skills
- Emotional Intelligence
- Stress Management and Mindfulness
Industry Experience
- Consulting
- Consumer Products
- Financial Services
- Healthcare
- Government agencies
What Sandra's clients say
"At all-time good listener but not afraid to be truthful, leading towards functional outcomes or key questions to be explored further, working sessions with Sandra were intense but each time positive. Combining practical coaching on management issues and addressing deep / long term acquired behaviors, Sandra successfully helped me to move to another step in my management style. Those 6 months have been truly an energizing experience.”
Arnaud Leboulanger, Managing Director, CEVA Animal Health
Tim Laporte
Co-Founder
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Co-Founder
Tim Laporte specialises in bringing senior executives and their teams on a journey of development and supports them to become accomplished leaders. He helps senior leaders make meaning of complex situations and build compelling stories to bring their teams with them. Under his guidance, senior executives develop an ability to see their organisation as a live system and focus on key leverage points to deliver on shareholders, board of directors, media and market expectations.
Tim has a strong academic background and an extensive experience allowing him to navigate organisational complexity and deal with ambiguity. He has worked within a variety of industries, including architecture, communication, consulting, construction, engineering, finance, health (primary & acute), hospitality, logistics, manufacturing and services. His career spans France and Australia, where he has successfully managed businesses specialising in acquisitions and fast growth as well as divisions of larger publicly listed companies for over 15 years.
As the co-founder of Leadership Partners, he focuses on his passion to be a ‘thinking partner’ for his clients. From analysing the complex web of stakeholders and identifying the organizational politics at play; understanding the type of conflicts they might be subject to and unearthing the key leverage points to influence their various systems which will allow them to deliver on strategic plans and return on investments, Tim’s strength lies in his ability to ‘delve into the trenches’ with his clients. Tim is recognised for his exceptional ability to read situations and support executives to develop a high degree of self-awareness in managing complex stakeholders and make meaning of situations. He advises boards, coaches senior executive individuals and teams and also facilitates workshops and conferences to build organisational competencies in effective leadership practices. He has done so for organisations such as BDO, CBA Group, HDR, ICAP, Leighton Holdings, NSW Government Health, Strategy&, Veolia and Westpac Group
Tim was Adjunct Faculty and Program Director for the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) - UNSW for the MBA (Executive) and Executive Education, specialising in Change Management, Organisational Behaviour, Leadership Development, High Performing Teams, Organisational Politics, Resilience and Executive Development. He was also an associate facilitator at Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), where he developed and facilitated workshops in the Leadership Series on Positive Politics in Organisations.
He is currently the Chairman of the not-for-profit organisation, Prisoners’ Aid whose mission is to reduce recidivism; he also facilitates strategy and leadership workshops for the not-for-profit sector.
Academic qualifications & Professional affiliations
- Master's Degree, Applied Science - Psychology of Coaching, University of Sydney, Australia
- Master of Business Administration - Executive MBA, AGSM - University of New South Wales
- Bachelor Arts in Business, IIMP School in Paris, France
- University of Sydney Mentoring Alumni Association
- International Coaching Federation
Leadership Development Practitioner
- Former Adjunct Faculty and Program Director for the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) - UNSW for the MBA (Executive) and Executive Education – Change Management, Organisational Behaviour, Leadership Development, High Performing Teams, Organisational Politics, Resilience and Executive Development programs
- Associate Facilitator for the Macquarie Graduate School of Management – Executive Education – Leadership Series on
- Certified Practitioner – The Leadership Circle, LSI, Lominger 360 Voice, DISC, Self-Leadership Lab
Areas of Expertise
- C-Suite Leader Coaching
- Executive Team assessment and development
- Organisational Politics
- Board Advisory
- High Performing Teams
- Complexity and Systems Thinking
- Trust and value-based organizations
- Behavioural and Emotional Management
- Emotional Intelligence
- Building effective Resilience
Industry Experience
- Architecture
- Banking and Finance
- Construction, Engineering, Logistics and Manufacturing
- Communication
- Consulting
- Engineering
- Healthcare
What Tim's clients say
“Tim Laporte’s facilitation style could best be described as “present”. He is attentive to each individual in the room, the interplay of team and group dynamics, and enabling each voice to be heard. He combines his energy, an understanding of human behaviour and experience in business to bring out the best of individuals and teams.”
Lana Ledgerwood PhD Director Public Sector, AGSM Executive EducationAustralian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) | Australian School of Business | The University of New South Wales