Phil Putnam

Phil Putnam is a leading voice in people leadership, professional motivation, and business strategy. His expertise in guiding people's relationship with employment has expanded the lives and careers of countless individuals and led change at organzations including Apple, Adobe, Bloomberg and Salesforce.

After years of working under well-intentioned managers whose approach to motivating performance never quite connected, he created a motivation method that is truly meaningful to team members, leaders and the organizations around them.

With Desire-Based Leadership: A Manager's Unexpected Key to Driving Top Performance, Phil has condensed his human-first, common-sense approach into tactics and business cases that all people leaders can use to motivate top performance, achieve exceptional results, increase peace of mind and enrich all aspects of their own lives and the lives of those they are privileged to lead.

Originally from Sacramento CA, he made NYC his home many years ago. His partner Raj and dog Bacio are the center of his desire-based life and the keepers of his heart.