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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
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• Strategic Executive Coaching™
• Executive
Performance for
Business Results
• Executive Talent Development
• CEO and Top Level Job Transitions
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• Succession Planning
• Team Development
• Interpersonal Skills
• Communication Skills
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CLIENTS |
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• AT&T
• Bell
Labs
• Deloitte
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Detroit Edison
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• Ford
Motor Company
• Health
Partners of
Minneapolis
• IBM
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• Nike
• The
University of Michigan
• United
States Department
of Defense
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LEVEL/TYPE
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• CEO
• CFO
• CIO
• Managing Directors
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• EVP
• SVP
• Division Heads
• Board of Directors
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
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Tony Putman helps leaders and their organizations make their
highest aspirations real.
Tony is an internationally known coach and consultant with over thirty years of experience helping leaders and their organizations grow and succeed. He combines the approach of both business coach and executive coach, always focusing on maximizing business value. Chairman of The Putman Group in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he has personally coached over 900 leaders ranging from the CEO-Managing Director-Board Chairman level through EVP-CFO-CIO-Division Head-General Manager to the Account Executive-Marketing Director-Lead Partner level. He works with individuals as an Executive Coach and with entire leadership teams as an Organization Coach.
His client organizations number in the hundreds, ranging from giants among the Fortune 100 to one person firms; their businesses include high technology, manufacturing (including executives responsible for entire manufacturing operations, managers of engine testing and engineering, and dozens of manufacturing consultants), health care, higher education, retail, financial services, accounting, consulting, and many other kinds of professional service. Some specific organizations he has served include IBM, Deloitte & Touche, Ford Motor Company, Nike, Key Bank, Bell Labs, Health Partners of Minneapolis, The University of Michigan, Detroit Edison, AT&T, and the United States Department of Defense.
Tony is the widely acknowledged world authority on creating Ally
Relationships between service providers and clients. Among the
many issues Tony has helped his clients address are:
• Turning around a manufacturing business that was steadily losing
market share and profitability;
• Moving an entire firm’s relationship with its customers from
service
source to Ally
• Transforming a global consumer products enterprise into a
“sustainable business”
• Merging two historical competitors into a single
high-performing firm
• Taking a global high-tech consulting firm from
opportunity-
constrained to demand-driven growth, constrained
only by their
capacity to find qualified employees
• Redesigning work processes and structures to remove wasted
time
and effort while ensuring people actually do things the new
way
• Taking vision and mission that exist mainly on paper and
making
them real.
Dr. Putman is an internationally known author, speaker and workshop leader. His classic book,
Marketing Your Services: A Step-by-Step Guide for Small Businesses and Professionals, was published by John Wiley & Sons in 1990 and is in its eighteenth printing; the book has also been published in Italian, German, Spanish and Vietnamese.
Building Ally Relationships: The Key to Sustained Success for Your Service Business was published in 2006. He has been an invited speaker and workshop leader at numerous national conferences, and at several universities, including The Georgetown University, the University of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Putman received his Ph.D. degree in Psychology from the
University of Colorado in 1973. He was a founding member of the
Society for Descriptive Psychology, which he has served as
President, as Editor of its Bulletin, and as Editor of Advances
in Descriptive Psychology, Volume 5. He is Founder and Director
of the Society's publishing wing, Descriptive Psychology Press.
He is the author of over twenty articles and chapters in
professional journals and books, including germinal articles on
“Communities”, “Organizations” and “Being, Becoming and
Belonging” in Advances in Descriptive Psychology. He has been
listed in Who's Who in Finance and Industry, and Who's Who of
Emerging Leaders in America.
Tony has consulted to numerous start-up companies, including
several software and Internet enterprises, and was a founder in
1981 of Management Support Technologies, a pioneer in applying
artificial intelligence to PC software applications. He has
taught meditation to inmates in state and federal prisons, acts
occasionally in local theatrical productions (his most
challenging role was King Lear) and is the father of two
adult sons.
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