Welcome to our web site. Every service we offer
is designed for individuals whose goal is to create success and balance in their career and life.
Our career-transition process helps you move beyond, "What is next?" to "What is best?" Your questions are invited - please see the contact page.
Nick Synko, Principal Partner
We believe experience is the critical factor when selecting a career transition coaching team. Whether you are facing this important juncture in your own career or providing this assistance to employees, partnering with proven, experienced professionals makes all the difference.
Our time-tested approaches help to eliminate wasted efforts and provide proven processes which help our clients identify and reach their goals.
Drawing on over thirty years of knowledge, research and experience our associates understand the fundamentals required by today's globally competitive employers. Using processes developed for our individual development, leadership and organizational change programs, we provide customized approaches to meet your needs.
- Individual transition programs
- Team-oriented transition programs
- Transition program management
- Educational classroom programs
- Educator and student workshops
Your career transition workshops allowed employees at the Ann Arbor News to open their minds and to think about future career possibilities in an entirely new way. I’ve received positive feedback from numerous employees who attended the workshops. Employees have referred to your workshops as “inspirational, informative, practical, logical, stimulating and helpful”. All are true. One particular employee commented on how she could not sleep because she was so motivated and couldn’t wait to get started on applying the tools discussed in the workshop. Your career transition workshops are truly uplifting and practical; I would recommend your workshops to anyone who is experiencing uncertain times at work and to those who are considering a career change.
Thank You,
-- Doretha McDonald, Human Resources Manager
Ann Arbor News
Synko Associates specializes in a highly personalized service approach. They help individuals create a “perfect fit” next step as they advance their career.
-- Darlene Trudell, CAE, Executive Vice President
The Engineering Society of Detroit
Synko Associates is the definition of top notch and compassionate professionals. The career transition service they provided would not have been possible without their creative and flexible approaches. I highly recommend the Synko team as an ethical professional services firm.
-- Dennis P. Blanchette, President & C.E.O.
Ensure Technologies
Two words, "professional and personalized," come to mind when I think of the Synko Associates' team. As Ave Maria College relocated from Ann Arbor to Florida, we needed an outplacement firm that would treat each of our non-relocating employees as the unique individuals they are. We found Synko Associates' career transition coaching process and their personalized service to be highly effective at helping our staff move forward with their future.
-- Gordon Leipold, Vice President, Human Resources
The Ave Maria Foundation
The overall effect of working with Nick and Cathy Synko was to mark a watershed in my life. Career coaching gave me the impetus I needed, the accountability (I have stayed in touch with them ever since), the belief that it was possible to find the answers and the courage to persist until I knew the what, the where, and the how. At this time I am finishing up pre-requisites for nursing (and doing exceedingly well in school). I know I made the right decision.
-- Elizabeth Chewter., Fulltime Mom to Fulltime Nursing Student & Mom
During the last year, I have had the opportunity to work with Synko
Associates to provide career transition coaching services for some of
our Eastern Michigan University employees. Each member of the Synko team
has proven to be a capable and caring professional who has treated our
employees with dignity and respect as they move forward with their
careers.
-- Karen L. Simpkins, J.D. - Interim Associate Vice President
for
Business and Finance-Human Resources
Eastern Michigan University
If you think things will never change for you, you should know I spent 20 years of frustration wandering in the career desert. Nick provided the guidance, support, and encouragement I needed to discover my Purpose and Passion. Thanks to Nick, I have found the courage, commitment, and inner resources to complete my career transition. I heard Nick on a radio show and we made these changes over a few months of working together by phone. It is difficult to believe that someone I only know over the phone has helped me make such dramatic changes in my career and my life.
-- Hugh Costello, President, Mighty Mech LLC, Fairmont, West Virginia
As a medical school applicant, I was more nervous about the interview than the
Medical School Admission Test itself! I needed direction and confidence.
That is exactly what I got from Synko Associates. Their team of professional
career coaches, who were dedicated to my success, gave me clarity of thought,
the practice and the confidence I needed to nail the interview. I directly attribute
my acceptance to Wayne State University School of Medicine to the outstanding
interview preparation I received from Synko Associates. There was no possible way
I could have done it without them. They knew how to bring out the best in me as a
candidate. Thank you for everything!
-- Andrew Petraszko
University of Michigan Graduate
Wayne State University Medical School Student
