Consultants

LINDA PÜTZ

As a senior consultant with Strategic Partners, Inc., Linda Pütz specializes in bridging the gap between workforce capabilities and organizations’ changing strategic direction. Linda designs customized approaches for incorporating new employees, and developing and re-engaging valuable employees and managers across the career span who must make new strategic goals a reality. In addition, she is a skillful meeting designer and facilitator, and author of a three-day course in Facilitation Skills.

In over 25 corporate, government, non-profit, and laboratory settings, Linda has 20 years of experience in both internal and external roles. As Manager of Career Development for a major aerospace corporation, she served as a corporate-wide catalyst for implementation of systems and training programs to develop high-potential managers and employees, including designing career systems for two large engineering groups. In a technical division, she managed the Management and Organization Development function, implementing employee attitude survey recommendations, delivering or coordinating 20 professional and technical courses, and training dozens of line managers to facilitate training and feedback sessions.

Linda earned an M.A. in 1990 in Counseling from the University of Maryland’s Counseling and Personnel Services Program (CAPPS), currently identified by U.S. News and World Report as the top program of its kind. During her studies, she managed two nationally known Career Resource Centers, at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the General Accounting Office.