The Leadership Detour: How The Unexpected Path Shaped My Success

The Leadership Detour is a deeply personal and powerful memoir-meets-leadership guide by Dr. Tammi Fleming. Blending lived experience with professional insight, she shares her unexpected journey from early career success to profound personal transformation. Through heartfelt storytelling and coaching wisdom, she explores the essential leadership shifts-from technical expertise to emotional intelligence, from performance to presence, and from chasing titles to building a legacy.

Drawing from her upbringing in New Orleans, her work across the federal, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors, and her experiences mentoring and coaching emerging leaders, Dr. Fleming reframes leadership as a journey of becoming-one shaped not by perfection, but by resilience, reflection, and realignment.

The Leadership Detour offers inspiration, encouragement, and a roadmap for professionals navigating transitions, leadership plateaus, or the quiet call to lead with greater authenticity and purpose.

Author: Tammi Fleming
Publisher: Diamond Consultants, LLC
Published: 09/18/2025
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9798998668012

About the Author
Fleming, Tammi: - "Dr. Tammy Fleming is an executive coach, strategist, and former federal appointee with over two decades of experience advancing leadership and equity across the nonprofit, philanthropic, and public sectors. As the founder of Diamond Consultants, LLC, she supports mission-driven leaders in transforming their careers and organizations with clarity, confidence, and purpose.A certified executive coach with a Ph.D. in Public Health, Dr. Fleming specializes in helping high-achieving professionals bridge the gap between technical expertise and executive leadership. Her work blends personal insight with strategic development, empowering leaders to show up fully and lead with impact.The Leadership Detour is her debut book - a powerful blend of memoir and mentorship that redefines how we grow into leadership.She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, their beloved Shih Tzu Duchess, and three young adult children who keep her grounded, laughing, and inspired."Johnson Dias, Janice: - Dr. Janice Johnson Dias is an educator, strategist, and changemaker with a Ph.D. in Sociology from Temple University, specializing in urban and political sociology. She is a tenured associate professor of sociology and a graduate faculty member of criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. As president of the GrassROOTS Community Foundation, an international public health and social action training organization she co- founded in 2011, Dr. Johnson Dias leads efforts to empower communities and promote equity. Her funded research on mothers and children has been featured in prominent policy and social science journals. In 2021, she authored Parent Like It Matters: How to Raise Joyful, Changemaking Girls, a practical guide for caregivers inspired by her life experiences. Driven by a passion for justice, she has dedicated her career to creating pathways for social transformation.Knutson, Donna: - Writing coach Donna Knutson partnered with Dr. Tammi Fleming to clarify the book's ideal reader, shape how the message would resonate, and develop a strategy to reach more readers.