Siham is a coach and assessor on the Conflict Dynamics mediator skills training course. She is enthusiastic about empowering individuals and has offered training to organisations in the public and private sectors. She has designed a module on law for business within an MBA program and is often called upon to offer her services as a guest lecturer. Organisations regularly request her to design and offer bespoke training on the investigation of complaints in the workplace, mediation, conflict management, leadership and recently Managing Mental Health in the Workplace.
Siham is an independent dispute resolution practitioner and has mediated many disputes and chaired disciplinary hearings drawing upon her legal, corporate, and investigative experience. Siham is a member of the Conflict Dynamics panel of mediators and is an accredited Commercial and Workplace mediator.
She is an admitted Advocate of the High Court of South Africa and has practiced both locally and internationally, specialising in Constitutional and Public International Law. Siham served as a clerk both at the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the Land Claims Court. Siham practiced as a consultant in the corporate and public sectors where she gained experience in dispute management and forensic investigations.
Siham has Master's and Undergraduate Degrees from the University of Cape Town namely: MBA (2010), M.Phil Criminology (2005), BA (1998), LLB (2000) and an LLM in Public International Law (2008) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Siham was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley being awarded the AW Mellon Fellowship. She also attended the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as part of her MBA programme. Siham holds a mediation accreditation with CEDR (2013) and a Corporate Governance accreditation with the Chartered Governance Institute of the UK and Ireland (2021).
Siham is able to conduct training in English.