Pamela Godwin, President of Change Partners, is an experienced senior executive and consultant with more than 20 years in corporate leadership and leadership consulting.

Ms. Godwin has successfully led significant organizational change in business strategy, cultural and operational integration of acquisitions, operational turnaround, and crisis intervention; and has worked with diverse employee and customer populations. Her work with enterprise-wide strategic change was highlighted in the book, "Reengineering the Corporation" by Michael Hammer and James Champy.

Prior to starting Change Partners, Ms. Godwin was President and Chief Operating Officer of GMAC's $600 million Insurance Personal Lines Agency Division with 1,100 employees and an agent force of 12,000.

Previously, she was Senior Vice President of Customer Management for Advanta Corporation with responsibility for its 6 million-member credit card operations. She has also served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Academy Insurance Group, and Senior Vice President of Providian's Direct Response Group.

She began her career with Colonial Penn Group where she held a succession of management and executive positions, most recently, Senior Vice President of Property/Casualty Claims. She has also served as interim President of Womens Way, a funding federation of agencies serving 250,000 women and children in the Philadelphia Region.

Ms. Godwin is frequently invited to speak and has addressed audiences in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. on business process reengineering, the human aspects of change, and leadership in a team-based environment.

She is a member of the board of directors of UnumProvident Corporation (NYSE:UNM).

An active participant in civic and business organizations, Ms. Godwin is a member of University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business Executive Education Advisory Board, Committee of 200 (an organization of senior women business leaders in the U.S.), the Philadelphia Foundation's Board of Managers, the Penn State Great Valley Advisory Board (Chair), and Philadelphia Forum of Executive Women, of which she is past President.

She is a former member of the Novant Triad Region Board of Directors, Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, Sunday Breakfast Club of Philadelphia, Insurance Society of Philadelphia Board of Directors, the JFK Vocational Technical School Board of Directors, and Wheels, Inc. Board of Directors. She is also past President of the Philadelphia chapter of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters (CPCU). She was named to the Pennsylvania Honor Roll of Women by the Pennsylvania Commission for Women.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Pennsylvania State University, Ms. Godwin lives in Havertown, PA. She and her husband, W. Gill Godwin, have a grown son.