Pam Gardiner Email & Phone Number

Missoula, Montana Area

I developed and coordinate a "Back of the Pack" program within Run Wild Missoula, a nonprofit running club, to encourage and support slower runners and walkers in the community.

I publish a weekly e-journal on topics related to health and well-being. The journal is published on Sunday mornings. To sign up for notification when each issue is posted, e-mail me at wellbuddies.blogspot.com

I offer personalized coaching for individuals and groups who want to take charge of their eating, exercise, energy, health, and stress management. I work primarily with "Boomers," men and women over 40, who are ready to invest in lasting behavioral change. I help people leverage midlife transitions into opportunities for re-balancing the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions of their lives. For more information, see my website at www.wellbuddies.com, and visit my blog at www.wellbuddies.blogspot.com

Missoula, Montana

I organize and deliver Jeff Galloway's training program to help people prepare for the Missoula Marathon and Half Marathon. The program is offered in a parternship between Wellbuddies Coaching and Run Wild Missoula. John Pitcairn is co-director of the program.

I research funding sources for a nonprofit conservation organization, develop and write grant applications, and write periodic reports on how funding has been used to support the organization's mission.

I played a lead role in developing policies and programs for land and natural resource planning, monitoring, appeals, and litigation on national forests and grasslands in MT, ND, and ID.As a manager and supervisor, I helped employees and teammates develop and work at their highest potential. As a leader, I enabled the process of articulating vision, setting goals, and achieving organizational results. As a public servant, I fostered an open and inclusive decision-making process that encouraged collaboration and the creative resolution of conflict among diverse public interests.I also served as speaker, instructor, and professional learning coach for a variety of agency leadership development programs throughout my Forest Service career.

In this position, I exercised national leadership for land management planning, natural resource project planning, monitoring, appeals, and litigation. I managed a staff of nearly 200 employees stationed at eight work locations around the country. I made a priority of coaching employees to develop and to perform at their peak potential.

In this position, I had day-to-day management responsibility for the Wasatch-Cache NF, an organization with more than 300 employees and a $20 million budget. Staff of the Wasatch-Cache NF care for lands and serve the public in northern Utah and southwestern Wyoming. A key accomplishment of my work in this position was support for the 2002 Olympic Winter games, including the development of venues and hosting of events on the national forest.

As District Ranger, I managed staff and programs on federal public lands in northeastern Wisconsin. In this position, I supervised a staff of 40 employees and a budget of approximately $1 million. I enjoyed working with diverse public interests to build support for an ecosystem-based approach to managing their national forests.

As Assistant Dean, I provided student personnel services with a focus on student counseling and residential life at a prestigious liberal arts college in Southern California. I served a student body of 1300, and supervised 30 full-time and part-time resident staff.

Certification, Wellness Coaching

Activities and Societies: Training and certification in the art and science of wellness coaching over a two-year period. Included 26 weeks.

Leadership Coaching

Activities and Societies: Year-long training program in leadership coaching by CI International. Training consisted of a one-week.

Personal Mastery

Activities and Societies: Personal Mastery is a one-year training program in which the participants develop more effective leadership.

Post-Bacc, Biology, Botany

Activities and Societies: Teaching assistant (botany), herbarium assistant

Ma, Counseling

Activities and Societies: Newman Club (Catholic campus ministry)

Ba, Psychology, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Gamma Pi Epsilon (national Jesuit honor society), national Psychology and Philosophy honor societies