Kris Putnam-Walkerly
Kris Putnam-Walkerly is a trusted advisor to the world’s leading philanthropists. For over 20 years, ultra-high net worth donors, foundations, Fortune 500 companies, celebrity activists and wealth advisors have sought her advice to transform their giving and catapult their impact. As a philanthropy advisor, speaker, and award-winning author, she’s helped hundreds of philanthropists strategically allocate over half a billion dollars in grants and gifts. A thought leader in transformational giving®, Kris has been named one of America’s Top 20 Philanthropy Speakers for the past three years. She is the author of Delusional Altruism: Why Philanthropists Fail To Achieve Change and What They Can Do To Transform Giving *Wiley, 2020) and Confident Giving: Sage Advice for Funders. In 2017 Kris was inducted into the Million Dollar Consult-ing® Hall of Fame, one of only 75 consultants worldwide. She helped launch the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers and served on the boards of the Community Foundation of Lorain County OH) and the Horizons Foundation.Prior to forming Put-nam Consulting Group, Inc., Kris was a Grantmaker at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and an evaluator at Stanford Univer-sity School of Medicine. She and her husband have five children and reside near Cleveland, Ohio.
