Pamay Bassey, Kraft Heinz Chief Learning and Diversity Officer - Comedy, TEDx, and Leadership

Pamay Bassey is Chief Learning and Diversity Officer for the Kraft Heinz Company. Prior to Kraft Heinz, Pamay served as the Global Head of Learning Platform and Professional Development for BlackRock. Before that, she was president of The Pamay Group, an e-learning design and strategy company. Her career began in Accenture's Media Technologies Group. Pamay is also Chief Experience Officer of the My 52 Weeks of Worship Project, through which she facilitates courageous conversations about cultural and interfaith diversity, inclusion, and understanding. Her 2018 TEDx talk, Navigating Sacred Spaces, is based on her project work and her book: My 52 Weeks of Worship: Lessons from a Global, Spiritual, Interfaith Journey. Pamay is Chair of the National Advisory Board of The Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the board of Houlihan Lokey and of the M&G Etomi Foundation, serving the people of the Niger Delta region in Southern Nigeria. Pamay earned a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford, with an Artificial Intelligence concentration, and a M.S. in Computer Science from Northwestern. She is also a graduate of the Second City Conservatory program in Chicago, an advanced study of improvisational comedy and theater.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamay/ (Pamay’s LinkedIn Profile): https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamay/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamay/ ) Pamay’s TEDx talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/pamay_bassey_navigating_sacred_spaces (https://www.ted.com/talks/pamay_bassey_navigating_sacred_spaces ) Pamay’s Book: My 52 Weeks of Worship: Lessons from a Global, Spiritual, Interfaith Journey https://www.amazon.com/My-Weeks-Worship-Spiritual-Interfaith/dp/1452545804 (https://www.amazon.com/My-Weeks-Worship-Spiritual-Interfaith/dp/1452545804) WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER IN THIS EPISODE: How stand-up comedy and improv inform Pamay’s leadership style and why "laughter is a superpower".   Why Pamay pursued a major in