Pamay Bassey

Pamay Bassey is Chief Learning and Diversity Officer at Kraft Heinz, where she drives a culture of continuous learning, bold creativity, and intellectual curiosity, leads global learning and development, and amplifies the work that every Kraft Heinz employee does to create and nurture a diverse and inclusive workplace. Pamay is a true believer that learning can be a superpower that transforms people, families, communities, and organizations. This belief is demonstrated through passion projects that focus on the ways people believe, worship, lead, and learn – and is highlighted in keynote speeches that she delivers across the globe.Her 365 Days of Learning project – where she made a promise to learn and share something new every day for a year – has been the foundation of a learning transformation at Kraft Heinz, and inspired her book, Let’s Learn Our Way Through It, Shall We? — created to encourage others to commit to their own personal and professional learning journeys.Prior to Kraft Heinz, Ms. Bassey 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. Pamay earned a B.S. in symbolic systems from Stanford, with an AI 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.