Richard C. Putz

Principal

Richard Putz is an internationally recognized thought leader in Value/Service chain collaboration. Richard uses strategic planning and technology to craft the working solution. Richard brings 27+ years of experience to bear in his lively and interactive seminars, talks and keynotes. He has been an educator and consultant to senior management for nearly 20 years, and a marketing executive for six years. Richard uses amusing and insightful stories based on real life situations to drive his point home. Richard is a business storyteller.

His experiences as CEO/President of a prominent community bank and holding positions such as CFO and CSO in major corporations for manufacturing, distribution and high tech companies provide useful and enlightening information to draw upon for the learning experience. Richard has decades of hands-on experience he shares in his work with clients.

Richard has served as Regional Vice President of Strategy within the Industrial practice of Oracle Corporation. Earlier he was a partner and Senior Manager in two Big 8 consulting firms including his tenure as the National Value Chain Director for Technology Advisory Services at Coopers & Lybrand. CEO of a leading community bank; CFO and CSO of C-bridge and CMO and CSO of Excelon Corporation. Richard is trained and certified in the Theory of Constraints as a “Jonah’s Jonah.”

He is actively involved with entrepreneurs of New England, Indiana and the Greater Chicago area and is actively involved in the Purdue University entrepreneurial program as an adjunct professor and teaches a Value Chain Management class at Loyola University in Chicago, which incorporates the Theory of Constraints Strategic Thinking body of knowledge. Richard invests a significant portion of his energy in large-scale research projects — often five or more years in duration — to develop fundamental insights and then translate those findings into books, articles and lectures. He uses his management laboratory to work directly with executives and to develop practical tools for applying the concepts that flow from his research.

Richard makes his home in the Chicago area.