Phil Putnam

Phil Putnam is a top expert in human-centered leadership and employee performance. Fueled by over 20 years of first-hand experience within world-class organizations including Apple and Adobe, he helps today’s leaders get the growth their business needs by giving their people what they desire most from work. His expertise on leading cross-generational teams, motivating top performance, and buyer psychology teaches leaders how to create the trust, growth, and revenue required to thrive amidst the constant change of today’s world. 

The heart of his message is a simple, undeniable human truth: we work to get the life we desire. Getting that life is every person’s number one career goal. That’s why our ability to get the life we want from the work we give is the most powerful and most reliable engine of professional motivation and performance, and is the cornerstone of Phil’s GIVE TO GET methodology.

Through his GIVE TO GET talks and his book, Desire-Based Leadership: A Manager’s Unexpected Key to Driving Top Performance, Phil helps leaders embrace their employee’s commitment to their own desires and leverage it as the most powerful, logical, and scalable solution for the biggest business challenges of today; things like constant change, cross-generational conflict, distributed workforces and return to office, and crippling attrition and replacement costs. Many of the world’s greatest companies and associations have accessed the financial and cultural benefits of GIVE TO GET leadership, including Adobe, Bloomberg, Slack, Salesforce, Dropbox, Nielsen, the Revenue Enablement Society and the Collegiate Information & Visitor Services Association (CIVSA).

Originally from Sacramento, CA, Phil made New York City his home many years ago, where his husband Raj and dog Bacio are the center of his life and the keepers of his heart.