Serving small businesses in the greater Michiana area

Your Family Business Supported.

Your own business—it’s the dream come to life. But the dream can often be a wilder adventure than you’d prepared for. It can be difficult to weather the daily currents. When your team depends on you to lead, you can depend on Syncovate Business Psychology Consultants to help you navigate. Let me facilitate your development, conflict resolution, and team-building with proven techniques grounded in psychology and human behavior. Together, we will map the course to success*.

"When someone really hears you without passing judgement on you without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good... When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

• How do we grow—but do it in a smart way? 

• We have a vision for the future—how do we make sure everyone really sees it, & Feels Like They Belong?

• Why can’t we have meetings that feel worthwhile?

Syncovate is here to guide you

The truth is, with an informed strategy, you can chart a simple course to success.  

With a little more data and process you can pinpoint key values and create an actionable shared vision.

Most people hate going to ineffective meetings, and you probably do too! But we know communication and information flow is essential to organizational success—with the Syncovate Facilitation Model we can help you.

Guidance on Culture

How to envision the right culture for your unique business. How to create and maintain it.

Tackle Growth Challenges

How to lead and manage your team through times of growth.

Implement Boundaries

How to handle common stakeholder dilemmas, like scope creep, and dealing with a bad fit.

Uplevel Your Leadership Potential

How to pivot when the skills that got you where you are won't get you to where you're going.

Syncovate is here to help

Choose the option that best fits your business

Second Stage Business Owners

(AKA Organizations Outgrowing Their Business Model) There is an unwritten and sometimes overlooked rule of a growing business, if your systems work and you continue to grow—eventually you will outgrow the same systems and beliefs that allowed you to be successful in the first place. This creates a unique set of challenges. If you are at this point, it's time for us to get together.

Family Business Leaders

Leading a growing organization sometimes means sharing ownership and leadership with others, and often those others go by names like brother, sister, mother, father, Cousin Billy...as second and third generation leaders, business continuity becomes a number one priority. Let's work together to reduce ambiguity, work through conflict, and to design a path to clarity, a defined legacy, and shared values and vision.

People Looking for Kickass Events

The thing that really ties my work together is the art and science of group experience. I have applied this expertise in all kinds of environments: Leadership Retreats at the Edward Lowe Foundation, Family Meetings, all kinds of classrooms, organizational strategy development and team building events. If you are looking to create a learning experience for a group of people or to develop a series of effective meetings towards a set of outcomes, we should talk.

Team Building and Problem Solving

Support team dynamics and address issues, allowing your team to reduce friction, improve results, and better identify opportunities.

Meet Dr. J

Greetings and salutations! 

My name is Dr. Shannon Jennings, a.k.a. Dr. J. 

I am an owner of Creative Health Services (CHS), and co-founder of Sycnovate Business Psychology Consultants. 

My mission is to facilitate growth in others and use the tools and to use the science of psychology effectively in an organizational context. 

Boring and draining meetings are my enemy and I am resolved to vanquish them through the art and science of facilitation!

Client Testimonials

"We are a small nonprofit who help disadvantaged pregnant women begin a process of life transformation for their new family. We employ10-15 staff with and Executive Director who reports to a Board of Directors. We were facing a significant challenge with our Executive Director transitioning off the team in the heights of Covid. The transition was very difficult for the residents, staff, and Board. Morale was low and the outlook was bleak. When we discovered Dr. J, who worked alongside our new Executive Director (interim at the initial partnership) during the transition when she was serving as the interim ED.

Dr. J provided Executive coaching, staff development and Board direction for Hannah’s House.
We have not only come through the pandemic, but our new ED, Staff and Board have gained remarkable knowledge on how to work together as one unit striving for the same goal and Hannah’s House is thriving.
We are looking forward to working with Dr. J for our next fiscal year to continue the great work we started. Our goals for the next season at HH is Board development, Executive Coaching and staff engagement/development."
Susan Frucci, Executive Director
Hannah's House
"Dr. Jennings played a key role in creating and implementing our strategic plan, including creating and maintaining organizational alignment and engagement through meeting structures and communication initiatives.”
Willy Veldman, President, Veldman's Inc.
"The StrengthsFinder workshop with Shannon had many lasting effects, our newest employee told me it was really good to learn more about herself and her new 
co-workers. It helped her understand what strengths she could bring to the table and how to approach her new co- workers. The whole team gets along pretty amazingly, and I’m sure understanding each of our strengths has really helped."
Christen Carter, President/Owner, Busy Beaver Button Co.

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