September 26, 2011
It is a pleasure to write this letter of reference for The Synergy Organization. During the past 8+ years you have conducted multiple executive searches, numerous assessments of external candidates, developmental assessments of internal employees we have wanted to promote within the organization, and occasional rerailment assessments & executive coaching as needed.
The Synergy Organization was referred to me by a trusted colleague. We found your company to have excellent credentials, with an extensive network for achieving the best results in an expedient manner. Your firm was very responsive to our needs and helped us establish clear expectations for the professionals needed for Albemarle Health.
We were impressed with your Synergy Screening System that utilizes proven behavioral profiles and structured interviews to objectively match and recommend candidates who would best fit with our organization’s needs. The Synergy Organization has consistently saved us time, costs, and the frustration often associated with screening individuals.
Overall, we continue to be very pleased with the first-rate services and high level of communication provided by your firm. We really think of Synergy as being the “E-Harmony.com” of executive search and assessment firms because you take virtually all of the risk out of hiring decisions.
We look forward to continuing our professional relationship with The Synergy Organization.
Best regards.
Sharon M. Tanner
President
Albemarle Health
September 7, 2011
“We utilized The Synergy Organization for a complex and high level search. Their comprehensive initial Needs Analysis included the use of behavioral profiles. These ensured that the key stakeholders were aligned in candidate requirements – which saved us tremendous time on the back-end. Additionally, their leadership assessment instruments provided valuable information regarding candidate fit. Synergy’s value-added processes led to our finding a terrific candidate and shortened the on-boarding process.”
Mike Wukitsch, SPHR | Chief Human Resources Officer
Children's Hospital Colorado 13123 East 16th Avenue
Aurora, Colorado 80045
October 4, 2011
Lompoc Valley Medical Center ("LVMC") is California's first public healthcare district, founded in 1945. LVMC currently consists of a 50-bed general acute care hospital and a 11O-bed skilled nursing facility. LVMC is located in the City of Lompoc in northern Santa Barbara County on California's Central Coast.
LVMC was seeking a recruiting/selection partner that was not purely interested in providing a "live, warm body". Being a relatively small organization, LVMC wanted a firm that would be in the best position to provide candidates that would be a "good fit" for the organization. After reviewing service proposals from a number of national and well-recognized health care recruiting firms, LVMC engaged The Synergy Organization by way of our mutual affiliation with group purchasing organization AmeriNet.
From the outset, LVMC's relationship with Dr. Ken Cohen, Mr. Dick Robson and the entire Synergy staff has been a true partnership. Before they actively started any search process, the Synergy team made sure that they got to know the key LVMC stakeholders in order to ensure that, when they presented candidates to LVMC, they would have a high likelihood of being the right fit not just for the job, but with LVMC's organizational culture.
LVMC believes that since Synergy invests the time and expense to ensure candidates will be the right fit, they can create value that sets them apart from their competition. The value they can create is through the actual reduction of long-term recruiting expenses by placing highly qualified candidates who are the right fit and who will be apt to commit to the organization for many years.
In this spirit, LVMC highly recommends The Synergy Organization.
Sincerely
Edwin R. Braxton, MSHRM
Chief Human Resources Officer
October 26, 2010
I want to drop you a note of appreciation for the recent leadership assessment project you completed for us, evaluating our two Cardiology Chair finalists.
As you know, this is the first time we have utilized this type of third-party leadership assessment as an element of our leadership search process. I can assure you that both our medical staff and administrative stakeholders found not only the process, but more importantly, your work product, to be of great value.
Your interviews of our key stakeholders, along with their individual written assessments of the position, provided a valuable insight into the key success factors necessary for this important physician leadership role. Your perspective on our culture, key responsibilities, performance criteria and leadership style and characteristics proved to be an important foundation upon which we were able to evaluate our candidates.
In our estimation, though, the feedback you were able to provide on each candidate's style and success profile, measured against these agreed-upon success factors, proved to be of even greater value. You were able to synthesize the written assessments with your interviews and your findings to develop a well thought out and concise profile of each candidate's likely strengths and areas of potential concern. I found this assessment to be objective, well structured and actionable.
Thank you for your assistance in this important search, and for your insights.
Sincerely
James F. Carlino, SPHR, CCP
Vice President, Human Resources, CHRO
DEBORAH Heart And Lung Center
