Synchrony Advisors helps for-profit and non-profit leaders gain an objective view beyond the day-to-day challenges, so that they can identify and implement changes to improve practices and operations. Our focus is to ask really good questions to help leaders gain deeper insight into the dynamics of their organization and to re‑orient and re-align operating practices and systems with strategic goals and stakeholder needs.

Synchrony's approach is founded upon the direct, practical experience of its team in building and growing companies, in the course of which instincts were honed for identifying the operating systems and elements requiring attunement. Synchrony starts with a systematic overview of:

• financial and operating systems and conditions,

• organizational goals and objectives in the context of those conditions, and

• conditions hindering attainment of stated goals and objectives.

Based upon the information obtained, Synchrony assists its clients in uncovering pathways to surmounting limiting conditions or, alternatively, accommodating established goals and objectives to the organization's reality. To support meaningful change, Synchrony facilitates strategic planning efforts, assists in identifying options for overcoming action plan hurdles, completes financial projections and analyses, and identifies needs and resources for specialized expertise.

Key areas of expertise include:

• leadership;

• strategic operations assessment and alignment;

• strategic planning;

• financial management;

• metrics identification and benchmarking, and reporting;

• leadership transition;

• risk management and legal affairs;

• human resources management;

• health and safety processes;

• quality assurance practices; and

• corporate governance.

Non-Profit Sector Experience – Served as an interim executive director (e.g., YWCA of NH) and on multiple boards (e.g., NH Center for Non-Profits) supporting diverse areas of interest including: domestic violence prevention and crisis intervention services, conservation, affordable housing, and religious and youth sports organizations. Served as board chair; chair of finance and audit, development, coaching, and executive search committees; and membership on finance, asset management, project, and policy committees. Consulting assignments for non-profits have included strategic plan facilitation and development for multiple organizations; completion of a competitive landscape analysis; stabilizing financial and business operations for a community action program put into trusteeship by the probate court; and orderly transfers of assets from two failing organizations including serving as court-appointed receiver for one.