BY JULIE BRITT
There are as many paths to leadership as there are leaders, and each comes with unique trials and lessons that can prove beneficial in later endeavors. The path for NAIFA’s new president began during
family jam sessions when he was growing up in Rockdale, Texas.
“WHEN I THINK BACK, I WOULD SAY THAT THE BEST
“I was always musically inclined. I sang
LEADERSHIP TRAINING—NONCOMBAT LEADERSHIP
a lot when I was a kid,” says Thomas D.
Currey, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF. “My dad TRAINING—IN THE WORLD IS BEING A BANDLEADER.”
—Thomas D. Currey, CLU, ChFC, LUTCF
was musical to some degree, and some
of his brothers were musical as well. I can
remember little jam sessions with them playing guitars and mandolins and what not.”
Currey was only 9 when his father died in a car accident, and he never
learned to play those stringed instruments. “The first chance I had, I started tak-
ing piano lessons and I got into the band. When I found the trombone, I really
fell hard; so that’s been a lifelong love for me, and one that I maintain to this
day,” he says. “It seems like I’ve spent more time with that horn stuck to my face
than I care to think about.”
November 2009 | ADVISOR TODAY 29
