Interview with a Leader: Engage Mentoring LIVE, Featuring Pamela Morris-Thornton

Each quarter, we conduct an Engage Mentoring LIVE event, featuring successful leaders across the country who share their perspective on leadership and mentoring. I had the great pleasure of interviewing Pamela Morris-Thornton for our first Engage Mentoring LIVE session.

Pamela Morris-Thornton, a St. Louis native, is Vice President, Corporate Human Resources, for Panera LLC. She leads the HR Business Partner function, Talent Acquisition and Diversity, and Inclusion Strategy and Initiatives.

She has 20+ years of progressive human resources experience in various industries and is a seasoned professional with proven effectiveness in strategic partnering with senior executives and business leaders on a range of topics, in addition to providing coaching and counseling to all levels of management in a multi-state operation.

Pamela’s current outside interests include holding leadership roles in local chapters of her sorority’s alumni association, volunteering with a youth leadership development organization, and serving on the board of the St. Louis Community College Foundation.

She holds a Master’s in Human Resources Management from Webster University, Webster Groves, MO, and a Bachelor of Science in Speech Pathology from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

You can also listen to the full interview on YouTube by following this link. 

To learn more about the Executive Talent Roundtable and the Engage Mentoring program, visit https://engagementoring.com/executive-program/