Amanda L. Christian Challenges Traditional Leadership for Senior Women

In her new book, SoulFIRE Leadership: The Leadership Model Women Were Never Taught, Christian addresses the psychological toll of adapting to male-dominated corporate environments. Drawing on a 33-year career that included managing large-scale teams at Wells Fargo and executing disaster-recovery plans during national crises, she suggests that the persistent need to translate one's own leadership instincts into system-sanctioned behaviors is unsustainable.

Christian utilizes the "25 percent" social-change threshold—the point at which a committed minority can begin to alter established norms—to propose that collective change is now possible. By moving away from models that reward adaptation, she encourages senior executives to reclaim their authentic operational styles. Endorsed by Jack Canfield, the book aims to provide language for experiences often dismissed as personal failure, framing them instead as survival mechanisms within systems not designed to accommodate diverse leadership archetypes. Christian, a certified Master Life Coach, now works with directors and C-suite leaders to bridge the gap between their learned workplace personas and their inherent professional strengths.