Laura Putnam

What drives performance? Laura Putnam, author of "Workplace Wellness that Works" and founder & CEO of Motion Infusion, has trained 50,000+ leaders through interactive keynotes, manager-focused workshops and licensed content.

Her work is based on a simple but radical premise: engagement, performance, and wellbeing aren't people problems; they're conditions problems.

Stop fixing people. Fix the workplace.

Putnam has spent twenty years testing that premise in very different rooms — in urban classrooms, on the Senate Judiciary Committee, in a Ghanaian village, and across 500+ organizations. Her proprietary Multiplier Method™ turns managers into agents of change for their teams, creating a middle-out effect that drives engagement, performance, and wellbeing across the entire organization. The published results of this approach, as measured by a third party, have been cited by the Mayo Clinic as evidence to the key influence that managers hold.

A Division I gymnast at Stanford University with a master's degree from Brown University, Putnam’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, and MSNBC. She was named a 2025 Woman of Impact by the American Heart Association and received the Circle of Leadership award from the National Wellness Institute.