Pam Waston Korbel

An expert on leadership in fast-growth companies, Pam Watson Korbel demonstrates high capabilities to build company sales, profits and valuation through her CEO experience.  In two different firms, she has overseen profitable growth once achieving 500% growth in revenue over four years and another company 1500% growth in eight years.

She also maintains her own professional services firm SmartGrowth, Inc., which she founded in 1996.  Through this firm, she serves as a corporate director, interim CEO, management consultant and executive coach.

As an executive coach, she ranks in the top 7 percent in the world according to the International Coaches Federation.

Pam was a finalist for the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the program sponsored by Inc. Magazine.  She has also worked in strategic and sales positions in Fortune 200 and Inc. 500 companies.

Pam’s mentoring extends as well to her volunteer work.  A life-long Girl Scout, she founded the Demeter Scholarship program for girls who earn the Girl Scout Gold Award, and she serves in volunteer roles for Girl Scouts of Colorado, Inc.

While a resident of San Diego, CA, she co-founded the Roads to Self-Employment Program, which helps women to reduce their dependence upon welfare by becoming entrepreneurs. 

She is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce.  She is past president of the Denver Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners. 

Pam has been recognized for her expertise and contributions to the business community by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Women Business Owners, and US Small Business Administration.

In 2005 she received the Martin Luther King Award for Business Social Responsibility for Colorado, and in 2004 the David E. Bailey Award for Small Business Advocacy.