Greg Hiebert

Greg Hiebert brings 26 years of studying, practicing, teaching and coaching the art and science of effective leadership. His passion is in helping organizations and individuals achieve sustained high performance through building effective and profound leadership capability and capacity.

Currently Greg is a partner in a small privately held professional services company, eXerceo Group, and focuses on helping organizations transform their leadership development into an integrated business discipline that produces breakthrough leaders. eXerceo Group’s distinctiveness is that it supports and equips clients with powerful new models about how to manage and develop their leadership in extraordinary ways. At the core of eXerceo Group’s approach is that development requires guided and facilitated action. Wonderful classroom education can create new insights and awareness but it is in the midst of challenging work that one must produce new behavior. eXerceo Group helps individuals and organizations craft strategies and actions that enable and support these new behaviors to occur, be reinforced and be sustained. Additionally, eXerceo Group provides systemic and integrated recommendations and solutions for client organizations on how to build sustainment, reinforcement and support into the leadership development process. Some of eXerceo Group’s current clients include the US Air Force, Equant, Cox Communications, Broadwing Communications, VHA, Deaconess Billings Clinic, and Kimberly Clark.

Prior to this, Greg was a management consultant for Egon Zehnder International, focusing on helping clients solve their most important talent management issues and needs. In addition to helping clients find exceptional senior executive talent, Greg provided rigorous management assessment as well as trusted advice so that clients would have the tools, frameworks and rigor to build their leadership bench strength. In the midst of this work, Greg also provided executive coaching to his clients. His search focus was on service industries, telecommunications, high technology companies, and consumer products and retailers. Greg was a co-leader in Egon Zehnder’s talent management practice and served clients such as Sprint, Motorola, Nokia, BellSouth, Randstad, Pharmacia, Novartis, Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Equant, Sky Chefs, Sonera, France Telecom, National Linen Services, Home Depot and the US Air Force.

Before joining Egon Zehnder, Greg was in high technology companies serving in a host of senior leadership roles to include vice president of operations and vice president of professional and client services where he managed several teams of network engineers, software engineers and consultants. Prior to this Greg spent three years at BellSouth Telecommunications serving in several senior leadership positions in customer service operations, leadership development and strategic planning. While at BellSouth, Greg won several awards for his work on leadership development to include creating and implementing a leadership model that was used extensively and highly successfully in BellSouth’s Small Business Operating Unit. Previously, he was with the Atlanta office of McKinsey & Company, serving a variety of clients in the high technology, health care, telecommunications and utility industries especially focused on leadership development and building high performance cultures and teams.

Before moving to Atlanta, Greg served for 12 years in the United States Army, primarily as an airborne infantry officer as well as serving on the faculty of the United States Military Academy at West Point teaching leadership, ethics and organizational change. Greg graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor of Science degree in General Engineering. He also has a Master of Business Administration degree from the Harvard Business School where he graduated with high distinction. He has resided in Atlanta for the last eleven years and is very active in young adult ministry focusing on leadership development. He and his wife, a pediatric nurse-manager, have four children.

Greg Hiebert's Email: greg.hiebert@leadershipforward.com