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Eric Sondermann

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A Colorado native, Eric Sondermann founded and now chairs SE2, a Denver-based consulting firm specializing in public persuasion, media relations, and all forms of mass communication in the broad realm of public policy. Clients include a mix of public, private and non-profit organizations, all requiring expert services in understanding and moving public opinion through effective positioning and message delivery.

Sondermann has directed this consulting business for a quarter-century.. During the early years, he did business under the title of The Sondermann Group. In the mid-1990's he teamed with Eric Anderson (with Susan Morrisey later joining the management team) as part of a shared commitment to business expansion, building critical mass, and providing distinctive and exceptional service in a highly specialized field.

Sondermann is particularly regarded for his strategic vision, his skill in crafting effective messages in various challenging contexts, and his ability to always see the forest no matter how many trees might be in the way.

A high-profile political analyst and media pundit, Sondermann has been interviewed by a wide array of publications and media outlets. He appears as a regular panelist on the weekly "Colorado Inside Out" program on local public television and as host of the Colorado Decides political debate series sponsored by CBS4Denver and KBDI-Channel 12 . He is sought after for his independent thinking, his ability to distinguish analysis from spin, and his forthrightness in calling things as he sees them.

Sondermann is a founding Board member and the incoming Board Chair of Get Smart Schools, a collaborative dedicated to training new school leaders to open high-performing, autonomous schools along Colorado's Front Range. He is also a long-time Board member of the Colorado I Have a Dream Foundation to which SE2 is making a major pro bono contribution of leading-edge communications work during 2011. Sondermann also now serves as a community trustee of The Logan School, a highly-regard, private K-8 school with an experiential and individualized focus. As part of a long-standing leadership commitment to Logan, he previously served on this Board for over ten years, including five years as Board Chair. He is a former Board member of Urban Peak, Colorado Public Radio and the Children's Museum of Denver.

Sondermann and his wife, Tracy Dunning, are the parents of Katrina and Clarke. Beyond family time, recreational pursuits include travel, golf, Avalanche hockey and Rockies baseball, voracious reading, providing humor in all possible venues, and circulating often provocative articles evidencing his independent and occasionally contrarian worldview.