Giant Partners Adds Executives
Growth strategy firm adds depth through executive partners
May 31, 2007
Oklahoma City-based Giant Partners recently added four powerful names to their list of executives - Pattye Moore (OKC), Richard Christman (Illinois), Taylor Keen (Tulsa) and Scott Pruitt (Tulsa). All four are part of Giant's budding network of executive partners and are evidence of the company's current and expected growth.
Well-known to Oklahoma City, Pattye Moore is the former president of Sonic Corp. and current owner of Pattye Moore and Associates, a business consulting company. Her book, Confessions from the Corner Office: 15 Instincts that Will Help You Get There, written with Scott Aylward, former chairman and CEO of Barkley Evergreen Partners, will be released in July. Along with expertise in strategic planning, Moore brings a wealth of knowledge in branding and marketing.
Richard Christman spent 30 years as CEO of CASE New Holland, a $12 billion farm and construction equipment company, and the last two years heading up The GSI Group, a $400 million agriculture equipment company. He has spent his career involved in strategic planning as well as sales and marketing, product development and mergers and acquisitions for large, global companies. Christman lives in Decatur, Illinois.
Taylor Keen of Tulsa was executive vice president of Cherokee Nation Enterprises, Inc. Prior to that, he founded a private consulting practice named Native American Solutions and worked overseas for WorldCom PLC in business development. Keen holds a master’s of business administration and master’s of public administration from Harvard University. Currently, he serves as a legislator for the Cherokee Nation. Keen brings a wealth of understanding of growth strategies and tribal sovereignty and business issues.
From Broken Arrow, Scott Pruitt is general managing partner of the Oklahoma RedHawks and a former state senator. Prior to purchasing the Rangers’ affiliate with Bob Funk in 2003, Pruitt was an attorney in Tulsa. His leadership at the ball club has led to huge gains in attendance. Along with strategic planning, Pruitt also has expertise in legal and regulatory issues such as workers compensation.
Giant Partners CEO, David Woods, former chief executive of Ditch Witch, said, “We are ecstatic to partner with such outstanding people. All four are passionate about helping develop and grow organizations and impacting the hearts and minds of business leaders around the country.”
The four new partners join two long-standing executive partners. Scott Klososky is an expert in technology innovation and Ray Sanders provides expertise in strategic marketing communications.
Executive partners work with Giant Partners (www.giantpartners.biz) in Oklahoma City and their Atlanta-based company, Giant Impact (www.maximumimpact.com), to offer strategic planning and leadership services designed to impact the heads and hearts of CEOs, their management teams and their companies. Through a “strategic orienteering” process developed by Giant Partners, each executive will seek to awaken companies to who they are meant to be by helping them grow faster, with more clarity and less stress.
Giant Partners is a growth firm offering strategic planning and advisory services, as well as leadership conferences and resources to select companies dedicated to growth.