BizHack Academy

Manhattan School of Music

Talawanda High School

Founder + Principal at Cultured Innovations and Preceptor (Adjunct Faculty) at Watson Institute

Business is a “seen world” of revenues, profits, valuations. ROI, KPIs, P&Ls. Deliverables, metrics, outcomes. 

But what about the less concrete aspects of life as a professional, but which are very real and formatively shape your career? This is the “unseen world” of thoughts, feelings, memories, wounds. Disappointments, fears, regrets, trauma. Unworthiness, shame, guilt, anger. Impostor syndrome. 

These experiences lodge in your energy field, on a quantum level that isn’t visible to the eye. Because the fingerprints of these invisible, internal influences endure, and everyone has them, everyone brings them to work, whether consciously or not. And that means what happens at work, and your own professional potential, are profoundly shaped by the collision of everyone’s unseen inner stuff. 

At The Business Healer, we use strategy and energy work to release and transmute what no longer serves you—so you can experience greater fulfillment, satisfaction, and thriving in the workplace and beyond.

So if work triggers the “Monday blues” or has caused anxiety, burnout, exhaustion, insomnia, upset, or other residual harm…you’re not alone.

Join us for a Corporate Detox event or work with us 1:1 through coaching and business healing services. For more information, visit https://www.thebusinesshealer.co.

The Business Healer

Chief Executive Officer

Guide, facilitate, and support Watson Institute scholars through courses designed to spark their development as self-directed learners, help them learn, apply, and self-assess relevant entrepreneurial hard and soft skills, gain support from peers, and prepare for future roles through creation of storytelling and visual materials. 

Course specialties: Problem Solving Practicum, Leadership Practicum, and Digital Portfolio Creation.

Watson Institute

Preceptor & Adjunct Faculty, Lynn University College of Business + Management 

Leading-edge artistic thinking + business strategy. This is practical creativity. 

I’m Marte Siebenhar, a classically trained professional musician and strategic planner. 

I believe that disruptors - creatives, social impact makers, and entrepreneurs - make our world more connected, compassionate, innovative, and fascinating. My work invests in the capacities, practices, and well-being of the leaders and companies in these spaces.

My tools are creativity, strategy, empathy, and intuition. I put them to use as a catalyst and thought partner with my clients. Together, we translate vision into value to help them achieve powerful results. 

Services include:
- Strategic and business planning
- Team and executive coaching 
- Creativity “jam sessions” 
- Memorable, high-impact retreats and convenings

Clients include FIU-College of Communications, Architecture + Arts, New World Symphony, The Phoenix Symphony, Florida Venture Forum, NovoPayment, Radical Partners, Venture Cafe Miami, Capital Days Florida, Guitars Over Guns, Children's Theatre Foundation of America, TransSocial, Pride Youth Theater Alliance, Children's Chorus of Washington, Theatre for Young Audiences/USA, Children's Voice Chorus, Amadeus Concerts, Inc., Global Language Network, and a number of individual artists and business leaders.

Founder + Principal

• Led audience development and institutional marketing campaigns for the New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy, that attracted new audiences and revenue, resulting in NWS’ highest-grossing single event—exceeding the previous benchmark by 15%—and highest percentage of new audience members to a single event (62%); created new ticket access programs yielding nearly $52,000; nearly tripled group sales and attracted nearly 2,800 new ticket buyers
• Created and deployed strategy to deepen visibility and build community connections through affinity campaigns and partnerships, such as with the Lincoln Road Business Improvement District; personally forged more than 20 of more than 60 new institutional partnerships toward the successful completion of the Knight Foundation-funded Project 305, one of Miami’s most ambitious arts audience development project based on more than 1,050 video and sound submissions sourced directly from Miamians
• Created, envisioned and produced two successful Open House events which drew 1,000 new audience members per year and was adopted as a key fulfillment by a six-figure sponsor; mentored Fellows in their developing their innovative programs in the community and for new audiences

New World Symphony

Assistant Vice President, Audience Development

The Miami Foundation's intensive leadership program identifies individuals 5 to 15 years into their professional career who are inspired by our community’s potential, have demonstrated ethical leadership and have the dedication to do more. Our dynamic community serves as a learning laboratory for the 15-month experience. Fellows develop a deeper understanding of effective leadership while learning about important issues facing Greater Miami. They connect with the men and women heading our most influential organizations and create lasting relationships. 

Miami Fellows Class VIII will build on the legacy of the program that began in 1999. Since then, nearly 120 people have participated. The program focuses on building Fellows’ knowledge, networks and abilities and increasing their community engagement and impact.

The Miami Foundation

Miami Fellow - Class VIII

Led a two-year strategic organizational consultancy for a growing network that advances the practice of queer youth theater by providing emerging and established leaders in the field with opportunities and resources to exchange, collaborate and learn. The engagement included:

Phase II (January - August 2015): Designed and facilitated the creation of a multi-year strategic, business and financial plan. Plan included a detailed environmental study, internal analysis, strategy development, implementation and financial plans, and addressed all aspects of business operations, including programming and evaluation, marketing/brand building, network development, partnerships, fiscal structure, staffing, governance, and resource development; presented plan to Executive Committee and membership at annual national conference.
Phase I (January – August 2014): Studied internal, external, and peer practices and designed 18-month action plan outlining organizational priorities, solutions such as establishing mission and firming up programs; presented findings and facilitated working sessions at annual national conference

Pride Youth Theater Alliance

Strategic Planning Consultant

Developed and led expanded programming, promotion, and engagement for Bakehouse Art Complex, a not-for-profit educational institution providing a platform for 60 juried artists and an expanding community of children, adults, and families to connect, exchange, and further their creative development. The Bakehouse’s 2.3-acre historic Art Deco former commercial bakery site is Wynwood’s only permanent, dedicated not-for-profit artist working facility. 

Results include: 228% increase in annual attendance; creation of important partnerships with corporate and educational partners resulting in the United States premiere of La Tauromaquia by Pablo Picasso through the Bank of America Art in Our Communities program, attended by 1,700 visitors in two weeks, and development of an onsite project room with the Florida International University College of Architecture + the Arts; attraction of important new institutional funding sources, including the institution’s first National Endowment for the Arts artistic grant, its first Miami Foundation Community Grant, and a Knight Arts Challenge for an Art Hackathon; seeding of vital community and education programs, including Teaching Artist Residencies in neighborhood Title I schools and the Wynwood Green & Art Market, a program of the Our Miami Public Space Challenge program, presented by the Health Foundation of South Florida and The Miami Foundation; and implementation of executive functions, including building and collaborating with the board of directors, overseeing all earned and contributed revenue efforts, and managing all aspects of operations, including human resources, finances, and the 33,000 square foot Art Deco facility.

Bakehouse Art Complex

Executive Director

Served as interim leader for one of the nation’s finest children’s choruses that provides high quality vocal education to over 200 children ages 6-18 in the nation's capital, regardless of background, experience, or socio-economic status through five award-winning vocal ensembles and outreach programs SING DC, PREP Class, and Teacher Workshops; oversaw and implemented all executive, fundraising, board development, marketing, and financial management functions during CCW's leadership transition; developed comprehensive marketing and communications plan for 2013-14 season; created fundraising boilerplate, infrastructures, and completed grant applications; managed budget, finances, and financial reporting with staff and board of directors; negotiated performance engagement fees; initiated first collaborative educational event with The Washington Chorus; secured new ticket database and led development of first membership and ticket package programs; educated, liaised with, and led fall retreat for board of directors; prepared and conducted fall board meeting; initiated cross-organizational planning structures; and assisted with recruitment of permanent Executive Director.

Children's Chorus of Washington

Interim Executive Director

Strategized and deployed all aspects of marketing, advertising, publicity, public relations, membership, and patron services, including performance season promotion, website and social media, and special events for a multi-disciplinary organization dedicated to serving audiences and artists of all ages and abilities. MTC programs include MTCperformance, theater, dance, and music for all ages and abilities; MTCeducation, learning opportunities for children, performers, theater technicians, arts administrators, and members of the general public; and MTCfilm, independent, foreign, family, and art films presented in partnership with O Cinema.

Miami Theater Center

Director of Communications

Guided long-term fundraising strategy, initiated long-range and institutional marketing plan, and consulted on programmatic marketing campaigns for immersive language programming serving over 5,500 students in 60 languages per year.

The Global Language Network

Marketing and Development Advisor

Trained, supported, and empowered arts managers and their boards locally, nationally, and internationally as primary project manager for the Institute’s roster of domestic pay-for-service strategic planning and customized consultancies, providing fundraising and communications strategy and support, conducting environmental research and internal assessments for clients across a range of arts and cultural industries; oversaw implementation of emergency plan, including marketing and fundraising leadership onsite for contemporary art museum client; designed and led arts management content for training programs reaching approximately 260 organizations and 42 individuals nationally and internationally.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Special Projects Manager, DeVos Institute of Arts Management

Prepared for an executive position in a complex arts environment through a structured blend personalized mentoring, hands-on work experience in Kennedy Center Marketing, Major Gifts, and Theater for Young Audiences departments, over 200 hours of training with Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser and Center senior staff on strategic planning, finance, development, marketing, institutional affairs, international programming, accessibility, law and the arts, media relations, accessibility, technology, human resources management, and union negotiations. Personal projects included: designed and led focus groups informing design of Kennedy Center MyTix program and redesigned DeVos Institute arts management website, Millennium Stage audience communication research with over 900 respondents, and facilitated the conception and preliminary implementation of a pilot collaborative theater for young audiences commissioning program involving connecting national and international producers.

Fellow, DeVos Institute of Arts Management

Led Carnegie Hall’s elementary school music education programs by designing and producing more than 80 annual events, concerts, age-appropriate standards-based curriculum, professional development, audiovisual, and online resources reaching approximately 60,000 participants locally and nationwide, 4,500 online, and 3,000 internationally; developed educational collaborations and represented Carnegie Hall in the field nationally and internationally, partnering with the Mississippi Arts Commission, Fomento Cultural Banamex, A.C. in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Carnegie Hall

Manager, Elementary School Programs

Managed all aspects of music education programs reaching 14,000 students in 40 New York City public schools annually, including teaching artist recruitment, hiring, professional development, termination, and administration of collective bargaining agreement; supported fundraising efforts such as individual donor cultivation resulting in six-figure gift for new guitar program and writing government grants awarded over $130,000 for one season; liaised with Board, including presenting at quarterly meetings and leading Education Committee meetings with Founder Midori, Education Committee Chair, and senior staff.