Hanna Siegel and Mickey Bergman

Family Member & Veteran Hostage Negotiator Offering a Behind-the-Scenes Conversation on Negotiations, Resilience, Leadership, and Humanity Following the October 7th Hostage Crisis

Washington, DC, USA
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Communication, Crisis Management, Emotional Intelligence, Executive Leadership, Geopolitics, Jewish Heritage, Leadership, Negotiation, Personal Growth, Security & Defense, World Affairs
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Hanna Siegel and Mickey Bergman Biography

Hanna Siegel and Mickey Bergman came together on Oct. 7 when the worst possible events unfolded. Bergman has spent his career negotiating the release of hostages and wrongful detainees around the world, operating in back channels, working across governments, and navigating the fraught space between leverage and humanity. Siegel watched her aunt and uncle, Aviva and Keith Siegel, taken from their home in Israel on Oct. 7 and held hostage in Gaza, and what began as traditional family advocacy quickly evolved into something far more consequential.

Bergman brings decades of experience as a hostage negotiator, including leadership at the Richardson Center for Global Engagement and serving as CEO of Global Reach, an organization dedicated to bringing Americans home. He teaches negotiation and emotional intelligence at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is the author of the book "In the Shadows: True Stories of High Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad." He has spoken extensively about his work at forums around the world and in the media.

Siegel became the primary family advocate and a core member of the negotiating team, shaping strategy, directing messaging, navigating political and diplomatic fault lines, and sustaining the fragile conditions that ultimately made a deal possible. Aviva was held for 51 days and Keith for 484. Siegel brings a career in strategy, communications, policy, and public leadership. She is a partner at the ENSO Collaborative, previously led a national immigration reform nonprofit for a decade, worked in the New York City mayor's office under Michael Bloomberg, and began her career as a broadcast journalist with ABC News. After Oct. 7, she drew on that background — strategy, messaging, coalition building — in the most personal context imaginable. She speaks not only as a family member, but as someone who understands from lived experience what it means to help move a negotiation forward when the stakes are life and death. She has appeared on national television, written for national outlets, and regularly speaks to business and nonprofit executive audiences.

Together, Siegel and Bergman experienced the same crisis from two completely different vantage points: the career negotiator and the family member who became a negotiator herself. Their experience offers lessons about leadership, communication, emotional intelligence, leverage, moral clarity, and community, lessons that feel deeply relevant to Jewish communities grappling with how to show up effectively when members are in crisis, the right balance between advocacy and strategy, remaining united when emotions run high, and what moral leadership looks like when there are no clean options.

The program is designed as a joint keynote and moderated conversation, 60-90 minutes including Q&A, and is tailored to audiences, whether a synagogue community, federation gathering, leadership forum, or donor event. They also offer smaller sessions with boards or leadership teams focused on crisis decision-making, stakeholder alignment, and how to communicate under moral and emotional pressure.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/25/2026.

Hanna Siegel and Mickey Bergman Speaking Topics

  • From Hostage Crisis to the Negotiating Table — A Conversation Our Community Needs

    On October 7th, our lives converged in the worst possible way. Mickey Bergman has spent his career negotiating the release of hostages and wrongful detainees around the world — operating in back channels, working across governments, navigating the impossible space between leverage and humanity.

    Hanna watched her aunt and uncle, Keith and Aviva Siegel, get taken from their home in Israel on October 7th and held hostage in Gaza. What began as traditional family advocacy quickly evolved into something far more consequential: she became the primary family advocate and a core member of the negotiating team — shaping strategy, directing messaging, navigating political and diplomatic fault lines, and sustaining the fragile conditions that ultimately made a deal possible.

    Aviva was held for 51 days. Keith for 484. Together, we experienced the same crisis from two completely different vantage points: the career negotiator and the family member who became a negotiator herself — essential to the effort and instrumental in bringing the deal across the finish line. What we learned — about leadership, communication, emotional intelligence, leverage, moral clarity, and community — feels deeply relevant to this moment for Jewish communities.

    We would love to bring that conversation to your community. This would not be a political talk. It would not be a news recap. It would be an honest, behind-the-scenes conversation about:

    • How high-stakes negotiations actually work — and what most people misunderstand
    • The role families and communities can play (and how to do so constructively)
    • Communicating clearly under extreme pressure
    • Holding both strategy and humanity at the same time
    • What this experience taught us about resilience, responsibility, and collective strength

    We believe Jewish communities, in particular, are grappling with questions like:

    • How do we show up effectively when members of our community are in crisis?
    • What is the right balance between advocacy and strategy?
    • How do we remain united when emotions run high?
    • What does moral leadership look like when there are no clean options?

    This program is designed as a joint keynote and moderated conversation (60–90 minutes including Q&A), tailored to your audience — whether a synagogue community, federation gathering, leadership forum, or donor event. Hanna and Mickey can also offer smaller sessions with boards or leadership teams focused on crisis decision-making, stakeholder alignment, and how to communicate under moral and emotional pressure.

Hanna Siegel and Mickey Bergman Videos

Hanna Siegel | Face the Nation

Hanna Siegel | Face the Nation

Niece of freed hostage says ceasefire is a "really fragile deal".

Mickey Bergman | Insider

Mickey Bergman | Insider

How Hostage Negotiators Actually Work

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In the Shadows True Stories of High-Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad
In the Shadows True Stories of High-Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad

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