Margo Halbert

Margot Halbert BCom (UWA) CSP, Director

President National Speakers Association of Australia 2012

Margot is an expert is leadership communication, influence and presentation.  

With many years' corporate experience, Margot has become a trusted business advisor for many of Australia's leading organisations.  Using commercial acumen and communication skills, Margot advises senior executives and professionals in persuasive and effective communication strategies and behaviour.

Typical assignments are working with senior leaders and professionals who recognise how critical effective communication and influencing skills are to their personal reputation and to the organsiations they represent.

A firm believer in the benefit of networking and the sharing of ideas, Margot brings to her clients contemporary leadership and business best practice through her associations such as the CEO forum The Executive Connection (TEC), National Speakers Association of Australia and the Institute of Company Directors. Margot is President of the National Speakers Association of Australia for 2012.

Margot is an accredited Executive Coach and is also a Certified Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).    Margot is a founding partner of Women Who Lead, a mentoring program for women who lead in the corporate or business environment to enhance leadership and business skills.   (www.womenlead.com.au)

As the Director of Positive Persuasion, Margot has experience in a broad cross-section of industries.  She has worked closely with organisations including BHP Billiton, Bunnings, the Chamber of Minerals & Energy, CSBP, Doric, the Royal Automobile Club of WA, Nulsen, Leightons HWE, RIO Tinto, Water Corporation, Woodside Energy and Wesfarmers. 

Margot is passionate about people.  She loves the privilege of working very closely with people to encourage and inspire them to realise their potential to be the best they can be. Outside her work, Margot is a proud mother of two beautiful girls, umpires tee-ball and loves hosting family and friends at home! She has a keen interest in viticulture and part owns a vineyard in the south of Western Australia, where you might find her sampling the produce or getting into a good book. 

Positive Persuasion is a boutique strategic communication and leadership development company, specialising in influential communication and persuasive presentations.

We support leading companies and their executives to become significantly more effective and successful by improving how they communicate. We work in partnership with business leaders, managers and team leaders to design and create face-to-face communications that are delivered with confidence and passion to key stakeholders.

Positive Persuasion has a long-established reputation for delivering excellence in presentation and communications coaching. We provide a broad range of services including:

• Leadership & Executive Coaching
• Strategic Message Development
• Presentation, Pitch & Public Speaker Coaching
• Team & Group Communications Coaching
• Facilitation

www.positivepersuasion.com.au