Pamela Godwin

Pamela Godwin founded Change Partners in 2001.

Ms. Godwin is a corporate director, an experienced senior executive, and a consultant with more than 25 years in corporate leadership and leadership consulting. She brings both extensive practical leadership experience as well as public and private company governance experience to her practice and serves as a thinking partner on leadership, strategy, and execution issues to CEOs, COOs, and other Senior Leaders.

Since 2001, Ms. Godwin and her Change Partners associates have offered a variety of services including customized executive coaching programs, strategic leadership assessment, succession planning, team alignment, and cultural assessment. Deep personal experience in developing and leading major strategic change initiatives and in managing businesses in highly regulated and changing industries allows Change Partners to help executives move forward in facing their own personal need to make changes while leading dramatic change throughout their organizations.

Prior to starting Change Partners, Ms. Godwin 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.

From 1999 to 2001, she was President and Chief Operating Officer of GMAC Insurance Personal Lines Agency Division, a provider of private passenger  automobile, motorcycle, and commercial auto insurance in 33 states.

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 Women’s 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. A list of her speeches can be found here.

She is a member of the board of directors of Unum Group (NYSE:UNM) and is a member of the Advisory Board of CHBriggs, Inc. one of the largest independently owned building materials distributors in its industry. Ms. Godwin holds the Certificate of Director Education from the NACD Corporate Directors Institute and has completed the Terry College of Business Directors’ College (2007) and  the 2008 Harvard Business School program, Compensation Committees: New Challenges, New Solutions.

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,  and the Philadelphia Forum of Executive Women, of which she is past President.

She is a former member of the Penn State Great Valley Advisory Board (immediate past Chair),  the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network Board of Directors, Novant Health Triad Region Board of Directors, Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, 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).

Ms. Godwin was named to the Pennsylvania Honor Roll of Women by the Pennsylvania Commission for Women in 1996 and was named one of Pennsylvania’s Best 50 Women in Business in May 2007.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Pennsylvania State University, Ms. Godwin lives in Havertown, PA.