What if the path to achieving your full leadership potential wasn’t in a business school classroom, but in your childhood home?
Veteran executive coach Pam Manfredo Curtis, PhD, brings the therapist’s couch to the corner office, revealing how your earliest experiences are the most significant predictor of your leadership style.
This groundbreaking book guides you on a revelatory journey into your past. You’ll explore specific childhood environments and discover how they shaped your strengths, communication patterns, and hidden limitations.
Drawing on decades of experience coaching the world’s most influential CEOs and executives, Manfredo Curtis moves beyond theory, providing powerful, actionable tools to help you identify and overcome personal blocks, have truly authentic conversations, and foster psychological safety within your teams. Learn to engage in constructive conflict and give feedback that inspires growth, not fear. By understanding the origin of who you are, you can fundamentally change how you lead.
No matter your current leadership position—whether that’s at your job, your home, or in your community—The Origin of a Leader empowers you to reach your highest potential. This isn’t just about becoming a more capable, self-aware, inspiring leader; it’s also about transforming yourself into a more competent, confident, and empathetic human being.
"Pam has accomplished what I didn’t think possible: a book that feels like she’s in the room with you, offering the leadership insights and care she’s known for. For leaders who want to better understand themselves—and their results—this is a must read."
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Mary Barra
Chair and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors
"The insights in this book not only changed me profoundly, they transformed our leadership team as well. Pam's work undoubtedly prepared us to weather the most intense
philanthropy crisis our organization ever faced. Every leader will benefit enormously from this book.”
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Curtis R. Welling
Senior Fellow and Lecturer at Dartmouth College, Former President and CEO of Americares
“We often think about what we’d tell our younger selves, but this book pushes you to connect your earliest experiences to how you show up as a leader. It’s not a typical leadership playbook, and that’s exactly why it works.”
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Mel Raines
President and CEO of Pacers Sports & Entertainment
“Pam’s coaching profoundly transformed the way I lead. She helped me unlock a more authentic, grounded, and powerful version of myself while strengthening the connection and performance of our entire team. Her work changed not only how I showed up as a leader, but how our organization showed up together. In this book, Pam shares the insights and practices that help leaders reach peak performance without losing themselves in the process. For any leader committed to growth, self-discovery, and elevating those around them, this is an essential read.”
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John Replogle
Partner at One Better Ventures, LLC, Former CEO of Burt’s Bees and Seventh Generation
About The Author
Dr. Pam Manfredo Curtis is an elite executive coach and the founder and president of Manfredo Curtis Associates, LLC. In her work, she draws upon her natural emotional intelligence, business, industrial, and organizational psychology expertise, and over thirty-five years of executive advisory experience to empower C-level leaders around the globe to achieve benchmark results. The Origin of a Leader: Transforming Family Patterns into Leadership Power is her first book.
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Pam Manfredo Curtis is an elite executive coach and a corporate game changer.
Dr. Manfredo Curtis is a gifted executive coach. Drawing upon her natural emotional intelligence, her degrees in business and industrial and organizational psychology, and over 35 years of executive advisory experience, Dr. Manfredo Curtis empowers C-level leaders around the globe to transform organizations and achieve benchmark results. At Manfredo Curtis Associates, clients are advised by world-class talent including leading authorities in psychometrics, licensed psychologists, renowned authors, and seasoned corporate consultants.
