Sydney Ayers, APR - Senior Level Strategist, Corporate, Community and Crisis Communications Expert

Sydney Ayers, APR, has worked in agency public relations, marketing and advertising for nearly 20 years. Through her association with some of the leading public relations and advertising firms in the Rocky Mountain region, she has served a wide variety of consumer and business-to-business clients on the local, regional, national and international levels. She has been involved in a number of sectors including technology, business and professional services, manufacturing and real estate. She also has significant experience working with government, public and non-profit institutions. Prior to forming her own firm, which she ran with her father for nearly 10 years, Sydney was worked at Servoss Public Relations where she handled media relations, community outreach and special events for a variety of well-known clients including those in the technology, manufacturing and retail sectors. She also worked with DDB as an account executive and at a small local advertising and public relations firm, Neuwirth Koller, where she did everything from coordinating advertising copy to buying media to producing commercials. An advocate for education, Sydney is a member of the Fairmount Elementary School PTA and currently serves as the organization’s Legislative Liaison. She also serves on the Jefferson County Public Schools’ Legislative Forum and is a board member for the Academy of Urban Learning, a DPS charter high school predominately serving homeless and at-risk youth. Further, she has consulted on public relations issues for prominent education-based nonprofit organizations including Denver SCORES and the Colorado I Have A Dream Foundation. Active in her profession, Sydney is accredited by the Public Relations Society of America. She currently is the chairman of the Society’s Counselors Academy, a section devoted to serving high-level public relations counselors across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. She previously was president of the Colorado Chapter of PRSA and received its Chapter Service Award in 2006. Sydney is a graduate of Leadership Denver and was named Forty Under 40 by the Denver Business Journal.