TRACY PUETT

Tracy Puett connects with clients in genuine, heartfelt ways through training, facilitating, and coaching to help them identify issues and apply solutions to real-world challenges. Whether in classrooms or coaching sessions, Tracy creates an environment where clients feel safe, relaxed, and respected, yielding individual and team-level insights that improve performance.

Having served as a certified paramedic for 18 years, Tracy decided to “go big” in his life’s work by developing skilled, compassionate, and aware individuals and teams. He has grown high-performing leaders and teams at T-Mobile USA and Healthways, Inc., served as Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s director of leadership and organizational development, and later as director of leadership programs at Vanderbilt University.

In addition to a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies and a master's degree in organizational development and whole systems design, Tracy holds training and coaching certifications from a number of organizations and is certified to administer several talent management tools and assessments, including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, Korn Ferry’s Leadership Architect™ Competency Model, and the Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment. He’s an accredited facilitator for The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™, a certified Everything DiSC Workplace® Facilitator, and a trained facilitator for The Leadership Challenge® Workshop.

Tracy serves on two nonprofit boards and is a mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters. He has taught mindfulness meditation to individuals and groups over the last 15 years, maintaining a 20-year daily practice himself. He’s developed a passion for physical fitness and bodybuilding in midlife, motivated by setting new physical and mental goals and working to achieve them in purposeful, focused ways. Tracy is an independent contractor with FlashPoint.