Cyrus Aram Speaker Biography
Change Management & Leadership Authority, and Renowned Expert on Managing Ambiguity
With over twenty years’ experience in Fortune 100 companies promoting business strategy, people, process & technology implementations, Cyrus Aram has a passion to take on wicked business problems and to unleash people’s potential to bring about sustainable process improvements.
Management
Cyrus is currently the CEO of a leading management consulting firm specializing in supporting large-scale clients deliver upon their mission. Cyrus Aram is an expert in the areas of customer strategy, business transformation, planning, program, change and quality management. He has domain level expertise in customer strategy, business process transformation, lean sigma, program and change management, performance management and business controls, and thought leadership. Cyrus is also an adjunct faculty at the Sacramento State College of Business Administration.
Leadership
Aram has 18 years of experience working with progressively responsible Fortune 100 business and public sector strategy development and implementation (e.g., EDS, GM, VSP, HP, Blue Shield of California). He has demonstrated success in leading a variety of complex business programs, initiatives across different industry functions and on a global, national and regional basis.
Strategic Transformation
He has over 10 years of experience directing large customer transformation efforts, including leading all efforts to complete the largest technology merger in corporate America history. His company initiatives have delivered hundreds of millions in savings and increased revenue by as much as 30 percent.
Education
Aram earned his MBA from the UC Davis Graduate School of Management and his B.A. in English, political science and philosophy from UC Davis. He also received his Six Sigma Master Black Belt from the American Society for Quality, Black Belt certification and Project Management Professional from the Project Management Institute.
Cyrus Aram Speaking Topics
Uncertainty Tolerated: The Surprising Clarity when Managing Ambiguity
Cyrus Aram invites us to feel emotions that we are often uncomfortable accepting - fear, frustration, uncertainty - and asks us to become comfortable in ambiguity. Beyond just the individual level, Cyrus explains how ambiguity is all around us and how we can become more confident in ambiguity, even if we do not find the clarity we are searching for.
Unleashing Leaders: Five Things You Need to Be a Highly Effective Leader During Turbulent Times
Cyrus Aram proposes that leaders need to get back to the basics. Focus on your company value from the outside in. Know the customer needs and build systems and processes to support the end-user. Seize the opportunity to question the status quo instead of assuming the old way is the right way. Build strategies to withstand uncertainty because they’re based on your understanding of the customer. View change as a constant. If we know that change is certain, we must develop and implement the infrastructure necessary to bend — not break — when change inevitably occurs. The companies and organizations thriving are the ones that created systems to navigate periods of uncertainty.
