Laura Putnam

Laura Putnam’s innovations in workplace wellness have not gone unnoticed. She’s been covered by MSNBC, The New York Times, Fox News, US News & World Report, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, NPR, and The American Journal of Health Promotion. Putnam is proud of her multi-disciplinary background. She’s been an urban public high school teacher, an international community organizer, a dancer in New York, and a Stanford scholarship gymnast. She’s the recipient of the American Heart Association’s 2020 Impact Award as well as the National Wellness Institute’s Circle of Leadership Award. She served as the Chair of the American Heart Association’s Greater Bay Area 2020 Task Force and currently teaches at Stanford University as a guest lecturer and is a member of the Google Vitality Lab Core Team, a community convened by Google’s Health and Performance team, to expand and accelerate the capacity for organizations to build a healthy future. A graduate of Brown University and Stanford University, Laura lives in San Francisco with her fiancé and unruly cat. Watch out for her next book, tentatively titled, “Born to Move, Told to Sit.” You can sign up for her newsletter here.