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About Al Siebert, PhD:

Phone: (503) 289-3295

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Brief Biography:

Independent Publisher's award for Best Self Help Book in 2006

Dr. Al Siebert is Director of The Resiliency Center. He is internationally recognized for his research into the inner nature of highly resilient survivors. His book, The Resiliency Advantage, won the Independent Publisher's 2006 Best Self Help Book Award. His previous book The Survivor Personality is now in its eighteenth printing, and has been published in German, Dutch, Russian, Hebrew, Chinese, Spanish, United Kingdom, and Japanese editions.

Articles quoting his work have appeared in Nation's Business, Family Circle, Men's Fitness, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, New Woman, Bottom Line/Personal, Good Housekeeping, USA Weekend, CBSHealthwatch.com, Human Resources Magazine, and many trade publications. His popular quiz "How Resilient Are You?" has been reprinted in many articles and books. He has been interviewed about highly resilient survivors on National Public Radio, the NBC Today Show, CNN, and OPRAH.

Al Siebert received his MA and PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan. He taught management psychology at Portland State University for over thirty years while conducting his resiliency research.

He is an ex-paratrooper, was a volunteer recovery group leader with Vietnam veterans, served as chairman of his county school board, and is a consultant to various Indian tribes. In recent years he gave keynote talks at conferences of the Employee Assistance Society of North America and the Employee Assistance Providers Association. Al keynotes conferences for many corporations, government agencies, education, and health care groups on "Resiliency in Non-Stop Change." At present he is a senior consultant to the new "Provider Resiliency Training" program being implemented in all US Army medical installations.

For More Information:

Please visit Dr. Siebert's Resiliency Center website.

How to contact Al Siebert:
Phone: (503) 289-3295
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 505
Portland, OR 97207

E-mail Al Siebert

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