The leadership and business consulting firm Unleashing Leaders provides trusted agents and practical techniques to accelerate the changes their clients seek. Founder and Chief Change Agent Lee Scott started as a solopreneur in 1997. He crossed paths with Cyrus Aram at VSP in 2001 and stayed in touch and after decades of nagging Aram to leave the corporate ladder for the entrepreneurial experience, Scott prevailed and Aram joined as the CEO in 2018. Together, the dynamic duo has coached, trained or consulted with more than 30,000 leaders.
“I believe in two quotes to live by,” Aram says. ‘“Everybody teaches; everybody learns.’ You can gain insights from anyone regardless of titles. The second is ‘Experience is sometimes overrated.’ Yes, we have amazing, late-career experts. We also have early-career agents, many just graduated from university, who are already solving complex business problems.”
“Working with Lee Scott and Cyrus Aram is a master class in leadership development. Every day you’re learning from them how to lead with gratitude and empathy in serving our clients.” — Lovelle Harris, Senior Client Relationship Manager
Scott also believes leadership is more about choices than position or personality. He says, “As a leader, I strive to make three choices consistently: passion for people, faith in the future and playful curiosity. A genuine passion for people makes success a collaborative game instead of a fixed-pie competition. I also focus more faith on future possibilities versus dwelling on limiting beliefs. This faith is a prerequisite to the leadership skill of vision. Third, I love learning more than knowing. This curiosity makes breakdowns just precursors to breakthroughs.”
As Scott says, “Leadership is a team sport.” Together, Aram and Scott pursue a triple aim of employee engagement, client success and national growth. “The secret is out and we are growing rapidly,” Aram says. Their current priorities are scaling internal leadership capacity and systems while leveraging new partnerships to expand into new markets. Ultimately, those strategies enable the firm’s change agents to serve more leaders in more communities to make a positive difference for our country.
