The Crooked Rim: Master Your Mindset to Strengthen Your Resilience for Limitless Personal and Professional Excellence

The Crooked Rim motivates, inspires and empowers all readers with practical tools and strategies to master their own mindset, strengthen personal resilience and develop resilient teams, and perform like a corporate athlete to manage elevated expectations and insurmountable stress.

Through The Crooked Rim, Pam Borton inspires hope, confidence, and a powerful belief that resilience and mental toughness are attainable. For more than 30 years, she has coached these principles and guided elite NCAA players and now corporate athletes to their own Final Fours…and she shows readers that they can do it, too. It is a personal playbook to master one’s own mindset for success. It is filled with real-life experiences, positive psychology and well-being exercises, emotional intelligence insights, best practices, successes and failures–everything an individual needs to be resilient and mentally tough in the game of life.

The Crooked Rim teaches readers practical tools and strategies to master a tougher mindset, strengthen personal resilience and develop resilient teams, and perform like a corporate athlete to manage elevated expectations and insurmountable stress. It takes a holistic approach to navigate barriers and to deliver the level of excellence stakeholders expect today. It takes optimizing more than one aspect of life to achieve sustainable success. It takes the same approach elite athletes use to train to be the best – they focus on the physical, mental, emotional, and purposeful aspects of their lives. While corporate athletes must train in the same way to perform at their best, most try to accomplish this without the knowledge or coaching. The mind is the most powerful muscle in the body, and it can either propel one to new heights or prevent one from fulfilling their dreams. In The Crooked Rim, Pam shows how to build the mental muscle required to reach the next level and experience your own final four.

Pam Borton ICF MCC occupies rarified air as a Master Certified Executive Coach, one of the few master coaches in the world. Her journey began on a farm in rural Ohio that led to a 27-year career coaching Division I women’s basketball. In her tenure as women’s head coach at the University of Minnesota, she guided her team to the NCAA Final Four and was a familiar face at March Madness with her teams. She is now a sought-after senior executive coach, speaker, and best-selling author of ON Point and The Crooked Rim. Through her business coaching expertise, multiple certifications, and thought leadership, Pam continues her endless pursuit of excellence, her passion for elevating others, and her commitment to growth and development to support the complexities and challenges her clients face daily. She has appeared on ESPN, CBS, NBC and transitioned from the sports world to the boardroom by founding ON Point Next Level Leadership LLC, a national, woman-owned leadership development firm. Pam has also founded two nonprofits supporting women and girls, TeamWomen and Empower Leadership Academy. As a true coach and gifted force of nature, she has been recognized by the Top 10 Global Women of Leadership Pillar Award, (Real) Power 50 Award, New England National Coach of the Year Award, and a two-time nominee for the Naismith National Coach of the Year. Pam also was honored with the creation of the Pam Borton Endowment at the University of Minnesota in the College of Education and Human Development, the only endowment of its kind in the world. Pam lives with her partner, Lynn, and their two Yorkshire terriers, Louie and Stella, in State College, Pennsylvania.