Alina Siegfried
Leadership | Systems Thinking | Narrative
About Alina
Alina is an author, leadership coach, speaker, narrative strategist, systems change advocate, and spoken word artist based in Wellington, New Zealand. She is dedicated to helping leaders, businesses, and organizations to rise to the challenges of today with authentic, purpose-driven leadership fit for the 21st century.
Relentlessly curious at heart, Alina’s diverse and varied career has helped her to understand the nuance and complexity behind systemic challenges within organisations and communities - and how the actions of our leaders can make or break organisations.
Alina has worked across entrepreneurship, circular economy, communications, politics, crowdfunding, and consulting. In her role in building and supporting New Zealand's Edmund Hillary Fellowship, she helped to co-create New Zealand’s Global Impact Visa, and curate a global community of 500+ world-leading entrepreneurs, investors, artists, and systems change leaders to develop transformative solutions to pressing global challenges.
Through this experience, Alina gained insight into what it takes to lead at the edge of innovation - an alignment to purpose, a curious spirit, and an ability to hold complexity and ambiguity.
Alongside her professional career, Alina also spent 15 years honing the craft of spoken word/performance poetry under the alias Ali Jacs. She featured at TEDxChristchurch in 2012, won the New Zealand National Poetry Slam in the same year, and went on to become the first Kiwi to represent New Zealand at the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2013. Experiments in cross-pollination between her professional life and her love for spoken word make Alina an engaging and inspiring public speaker.
Certifications
Alina is currently nearing completion of her professional coaching certification through the International Coaching Academy, an ICF-accredited programme.
Alina is also a certified Emotional Leadership Practitioner of the Emotional Culture Deck, a simple tool designed to help unpack and encourage conversations about emotions at work.