The Putman Group helps leaders and their organization grow and succeed. Client organizations range from giants among the Fortune 100 to one person firms. Their businesses include high technology, manufacturing, retail, financial services, accounting, law, consulting, health care, higher education, and many other kinds of professional service. Some specific organizations he has served include IBM, Deloitte, Ford Motor Company, Nike, Bell Labs, Health Partners of Minneapolis, The University of Michigan, Key Bank, Detroit Edison, AT&T, Animas Valley Institute, and the United States Department of Defense. Among the many issues The Putman Group has helped clients address are: • 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. • Building service businesses from scratch to thriving, sustainable success. • Moving an entire firm’s relationship with its customers from service source to Ally. • Implementing a highly successful “key client” targeting program for a global services firm. • Creating and implementing a new organizational structure that greatly improves results in an "In Service" organization. • Taking vision, mission and programs that exist mainly on paper and making them real.