Lee is Founder and Chief Change Agent at Unleashing Leaders.
I've been looking forward to hosting Lee on the show, ever since we met 6 months ago at XPrize visioneering. We connected instantly and I'm excited to learn more about his journey, the genesis of Unleashing Leaders and share his wisdom with you all.
Lee Scott is a prolific practitioner and educator of leadership. And has significantly impacted both the public and private sectors. As the Founder and Chief Change Agent of Unleashing Leaders, Lee has dedicated over 27 years to inspiring leaders to more powerfully connect and contribute to their organizations and communities, coaching and training more than 26,000 professionals to date.
Lee's unique approach integrates practical essentials from multiple disciplines and industries, helping cross-functional teams tackle daunting challenges, streamline processes, and achieve remarkable results. His extensive experience ranges from leading startups to managing large international corporations, providing him with a wealth of knowledge on overcoming organizational dysfunction and maximizing limited resources.
I love his core values, with an acronym FIERCE: freedom, integrity, excellence, resilience, curiosity, and engagement.
Get ready to be inspired by Lee's practical insights and transformative strategies for unleashing leadership potential and fostering a culture of excellence and adaptability.
Ross and Lee talk about life being precious, biology in leadership, evolutionary biology, luck, natural selection, trial & error, environment, selective convergence, geographical advantages, divergence, diverse thinking, shortcuts becoming traps, supporting people, blending support, channelling the wrong energy, multi generational collaboration and harnessing energy. The pair also discuss leaders serving, duality, data driven tools, solving problems for leaders, being vulnerable, discipline, trying new things, accelerating change, imagining different futures, predicting the future, looking fear in the eye, having the right skills, feedback, protecting your confidence, shifting perspective, asking great questions, curiosity, embracing being uncomfortable, hobby farming and loving mistakes.
Timecodes:
- 00:16 Intro to Lee
- 02:20 Saving lives as a lifeguard
- 03:50 The genesis of unleashing leaders
- 13:12 Challenges leaders are going through
- 16:13 Helping leaders achieve and resetting expectations
- 21:13 Moments of change at the lifecycle of leadership
- 28:16 The concept behind the Unleashing Leaders logo
- 29:03 The immediate horizon for leadership
- 34:53 Creativity and play for leaders
- 38:05 VOPAR - Visualise. Organise. Prioritise. Actualise. Revise
- 48:28 Member selection and injecting fresh energy
- 50:16 Taking the persona of a journalist
- 53:08 The last time Lee did something for the first time
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