Pamela Ammondson, president of Ammondson Communications, has been active in business and marketing communications for more than fifteen years. An accomplished writer, speaker, and video producer, she has held a variety of public relations and corporate communications positions -- editor of Metro Denver, PR Manager for Mountain Bell and Pacific Bell, Communications Consultant and Senior Producer for the Hewlett-Packard Company -- and currently owns her own company. Ms. Ammondson spent several years researching burnout, its causes and antidotes and is a frequent media guest, interviewed by Time magazine and NBC Nightly News. She conducts workshops for people at all job levels and has compiled her findings into the practical book Clarity Quest: How to Take a Sabbatical Without Taking More Than a Week Off (Simon and Schuster, 1999). She was awarded the Golden Quill Award from the International Association of Business Communicators and is listed in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, International Who’s Who of Professional and Business Women and Nationwide Register's Who's Who. Ms. Ammondson has served in professional and community organizations as Co-Chairman of the San Francisco Symphony 500, Board Member of the San Francisco Professionals and the Arts, PR Consultant for the American Red Cross, Board Member of the Weld County Council on Aging, Team Leader for the Santa Rosa Holiday Food Project and member of the Alumnae Resources’ Career Advisor Network and National Speakers Association. She currently lives in Santa Rosa, California.

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