Pamela Jolly

Pamela Jolly, Founder, and CEO of Torch Enterprises Inc brings more than 20 years of proven leadership and strategic management expertise; her primary focus is legacy wealth creation that passes on for generations. Torch Enterprises is a strategic investment firm focused on growing and sustaining minority-owned businesses. Since 2004, Torch has assisted over 1000 entrepreneurs and remains committed to raising capital and awareness for women and minorities desiring to build wealth via ownership. Pamela Jolly uses her extensive background in financial services, strategy, community development, and theology, to help minority entrepreneurs and professionals succeed.

In 2014 Pamela launched the NarrowRoad™ a unique patent pending developmental methodology that infuses the cultural realities of people of color into the educational journey that elevates a business idea into an investable one. Pamela is a sought after keynote both nationally and internationally, lecturing and advising businesses and leaders with her research and work in places such as Korea, China, Japan, Africa, the Caribbean, and most recently Oxford England. She inspires audiences around the country, at every level, to break through barriers and achieve great entrepreneurial success.

Pamela is committed to elevating the standard of business in her community; she is President of the Wharton African American Alumni Association, and hosts workshops and training on the principles of legacy wealth creation via personal business acumen.

Pamela is a graduate of Hampton University (B.S.), The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania (MBA), Boston University School of Theology (MTs), and the Graduate Theological Foundation (Ed.D). Dr. Jolly's research concentrates on individual and collective relationships with money, business, faith, and finance in communities of color. Her book highlighting The Narrow Road™ Method and ways to navigate the financial wilderness to build legacy wealth via ownership was released in 2015.