Pam Farris
Executive Director
Leadership West Virginia
MAGGIE MATSKO
Photo by Tracy A. Toler Photography.
“THE TRUE MEASURE OF LEADERSHIP is not how much you
achieve. It is how much you inspire others to achieve.”
This quote by John Maxwell inspires Pam Farris every day
in her role as executive director of Leadership West Virginia
(LWV). The Pennsylvania native’s passion for the Mountain
State started during her first visit to the old Mountaineer Field
as a high school student, and she has never looked back.
Upon graduating from West Virginia University with a
degree in marketing, Farris landed her first professional job
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as an assistant account manager for Employer’s Service Cor-
poration, a third-party disability management administrator
in Charleston. In that role, Farris learned the importance of
having a connection with each client, a trait imperative to the
work she does today with LWV, where she is responsible for
creating connections among West Virginia’s leaders.
At LWV, Farris oversees the planning, implementation and
fundraising to promote the organization’s education and profes-
sional training program statewide. “I manage the recruitment