Build trust with Give To Get ™

Build trust with
Give To Get TM

GIVE your people what they want most for their lives, and

GET what you need most from their work.

Trust Matters Now

More Than Ever Before.

Constant, radical change and painfully low trust between employees and leaders are the biggest obstacles to consistent business growth today.

Your operating strategy only works if you have a deeply trusting workforce ready to execute it.

Through the GIVE TO GET TM methodology, Phil helps leaders build constant trust to overcome constant change and achieve consistent growth.

Companies ranked as High-trust regularly outperform the S&P 500 by 30-50%.

Their workers are:
180%

more likely to be motivated

140%

more likely to take on extra responsibilities

50%

less likely to leave

Source: Trust Across America

20+ Years Inside Top-Tier Teams

With more than two decades of experience in world-class organizations like Apple and Adobe, in roles spanning from entry-level to executive leadership, Phil Putnam brings a rare blend of strategic business expertise and an incisive understanding of human behavior.

He knows how to lead, and he knows what it’s like to be led.

His human-centered leadership framework, GIVE TO GET TM , is grounded in the core truth that drives all performance: people work to get the life they desire.

Phil is trusted by leaders at:

Phil Takes Organizations...

From:
To:

Fear & Friction

where uncertainty and confusion constantly limit results

Trust & Trying

where consistent growth flows from a deeply committed and courageous workforce

Crippling Costs

as you watch valuable team members and customers walk out the door

Strategic Spending

as you proactively understand whose desires you can fulfill and who should move on

Conflict

as colleagues collide with each other and add friction to daily operations

Chemistry

as colleagues turn toward each other with empathy and achieve true collaboration

Second-place Attempts

motivated by the achievement of company goals

First-place Results

motivated by deep trust and the fulfillment of employees’ desires

Forget The Same Old Leadership Talks

Phil’s signature keynotes, rooted in his GIVE TO GET TMapproach, offer a data-backed, deeply human path to action and excellence from today’s employees, volunteers, and buyers.

At the heart of every talk is one powerful idea: we work to get the life we desire, and the fulfillment of our desires builds the deeply trusting teams that win amidst the constant change of today’s world.

When leaders understand this, everything grows.

Phil’s talks will teach you how to:

Feedback From Leaders

The Book
Behind The Message

There is one proven pathway to your employees’ best performance: their ability to get the life they desire from the work they give.

Most managers try to motivate their people’s performance with the message of, “When you give us your best, we’ll hit our goals!” This never taps anyone’s full potential because, while most people care about their employer’s success, every person cares MOST about getting the life they desire.

Denying this human truth costs employers billions of dollars every year because when leaders leverage a second-place motivation, they get second-place results.

Desire-Based Leadership: A Manager’s Unexpected Key to Driving Top Performance gives people leaders of all levels insights and tools to get what they need most from their people by giving their people what they want most from their work, and lays out a rock-solid business case for how aligning with employee desires is the fastest, most reliable path to consistent business growth.

Download Phil’s Give To Get TM
Trust Guide

This visually-rich leadership tool brings clarity to one of today’s most costly workplace challenges: how to lead multi-generational teams in ways that build trust and drive growth.

In his GIVE TO GET TMTrust Guide, Phil teaches leaders how to turn cross-generational conflict into chemistry by moving from judgment and impatience to understanding and empathy.

Inside, You’ll Find:

Detailed Generational Profiles

to help you understand each generation’s relationship with employment and income, what they want from work, and why they want it.

Context & Timelines

to help you anticipate each generation’s response to workplace demands based on how the world around them has shaped their ideas about loyalty, hierarchy, power, motivation, and success.

Actionable Leadership Tools

to help you navigate big cross-generational challenges like return to office, pay & promotions, collaboration, skills development, and more.

Planning a Leadership Event?

Planning a Leadership Event?

Phil will meet you where you are, and move you forward.

Fill out the form below to start a conversation about how to experience the impact of Phil’s talks on your team.

Phil will meet you where you are, and move you forward.

Fill out the form below to start a conversation about how to experience the impact of Phil’s talks on your team.