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"In today's society and economy, the old rules no longer apply.
It is who you know, how you keep your relationships thriving, what you know, how to quickly access information in real time, the capacity to take a concept to market, and how to connect, move, and inspire others to participate and excel in the quest for personal excellence."

-- Bobbie Goheen

 

Our strength is in our people. We are made up of knowledgeable individuals who have the ability and experience to bring concepts & ideas to life in a dynamic environment. We are connected to a wide array of select resources to provide our clients the best.

 

Synthesis is committed to make results happen through the fusion of peoples’ needs with business needs in an experiential learning/working environment. While we work, the work gets done.

 
Synthesis is committed to make results happen through the fusion of peoples’ needs with business needs in an experiential learning/working environment. While we work, the work gets done.
 
Synthesis coaches for success by focusing on strategic "shifts" and skills a leader must make to thrive for themselves, their team, and their organization. Find out if you or your company would benefit from one-on-one leadership development/coaching.
 
Synthesis knows the four realms of thriving, successful companies; People, Leadership, Strategies, and Customers. Synthesis focuses on these four realms to ensure every initiative takes hold with energy to allow an organization to be nimble, flexible, resourceful, and successful. Synthesis aligns with people and companies to move into their unrealized potential.
Roberta (Bobbie) Goheen is a leadership and business consultant with more than 25 years experience.

Bobbie offers an uncommon approach with successful business leaders and their workforce on leadership development through individual coaching (one-on- one leadership development), team development, business strategy, large scale organizational change, culture growth, and personal excellence.
 

Her focus is on people, business, and organizational leadership. Bobbie uses experiential learning to develop leaders, vision, strategies, effective implementation, high performance organizational design, customer focus, personal excellence, and teamwork at all levels of the company.

Her expertise in leadership, teamwork, business, and organizations supports a dynamic environment for positive growth, change, and results for the individual, the organization, and the customer.

Bobbie has worked with companies and organizations ranging from 5 employees to 80,000 across the world. Her initiatives including strategic planning and implementation, visioning, leadership development, facilitation, team building, communication, coaching and change management.

Bobbie led the training industry to create one of the first in-house corporate universities for a fortune 500 company which 6000 people attended annually. In a 12 year time frame over 50 world class programs (of which 17 became college certified) developed including technical, service, sales, supervision, HR, business basics, management, and leadership. In addition, she expanded services to include instructional design, performance consulting, executive coaching and large scale learning events.
  • Working with organizations to create better operations and momentum internally and externally
  • Executive Coaching
  • Leadership Development
  • Visioning and Growth Strategy
  • Culture and Values Development
  • Organizational change and effectiveness through inclusion of key people at all levels inside and outside the organization
  • Innovation and Creativity
  • Board Effectiveness
  • Executive team building and facilitation of key planning retreats and meetings

She coaches and facilitates Executive Leadership Development for the EMBA program at Rochester Institute of Technology and lectured on Leadership for the University of Rochester women’s graduating program and developed and led leadership programs for Cornell University’s Executive Art Directors Program on Organizational Development. She also facilitates CEO roundtables for multi million dollar firms within Upstate New York.

She has been interviewed on radio, television and is quoted in many newspaper and magazine articles. She has written several training programs for technical, management, leadership, sales, and customer service on achieving and maintaining organizational growth and objectives.

She has been a featured speaker at associations on topics of personal excellence, relationship development, leadership, and the integration of successful organizations and talented people.
  • Founder of Synthesis Management Group
  • Co founder of Beaconhouse Leadership Programs,
    • An Executive Leadership 12 Month Program
  • Director of Training, Paychex, Inc
  • Regional Operations Management, Paychex, Inc
  • Customer Management, Paychex,Inc
  • Sales and Business Development, Paychex, Inc
  • Customer Service, Paychex, Inc
  • Site Manager - Budget Rent-A-Car
 
 
  • Birkman Certification
  • Through the Looking Glass – Center for Creative Leadership
  • Leadership at the Peak – Center for Creative Leadership
  • Executive Coaching – Conference Board
  • Situational Leadership – Blanchard Training
  • Service Excellence – Blanchard Training
  • Solution Based Selling
  • Wharton/Horizon MBA
  • Multiple Intelligences
  • Learning Styles
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Cooperative Learning
  • Experiential Learning Environments
  • Team Dynamics – Blanchard Training
  • 7 Habits – Steve Covey
  • Marketing and Strategy – Harvard Programs
  • Good to Great – Jim Collins
  • Myers Briggs Certification
  • DISC Certification
  • Women Presidents Organization – Facilitator
  • International Association of Facilitators
  • Society of Human Resources
  • Heart Association
  • Artisan Works
  • International Visitors Council
  • Epilepsy Foundation
  • Memorial Art Gallery
  • Eastman House
  • Institute for Circlework
  • Rochester Women’s Network
  • Rochester Business Alliance
 
  • Athena Nominee 2007
  • Wayne State University, MI
  • Oakland University, MI
  • Irvine College, CA