Building Educational Experiences That Prepare Students for a Lifetime of Opportunity

Higher education has an extraordinary opportunity to strengthen the connection between learning, purpose, career development, work-based learning, and economic mobility. Synergy helps institutions transform that opportunity into meaningful practice.

Building Educational Experiences That Prepare Students for a Lifetime of Opportunity

Higher education has an extraordinary opportunity to strengthen the connection between learning, purpose, career development, and economic mobility.

Synergy partners with colleges, universities, systems, foundations, and national organizations to help transform that opportunity into meaningful practice.

20 years program

development experience

Student Success

Strategies Support

Adaptable Career

Success Programs

How Does Your Educational Institution Address Various Challenges To Improve Outcomes And Meet Workforce Demands?

  • Is public pressure a significant factor in driving initiatives to enhance graduation rates and meet local workforce needs?

  • Are budget challenges a common obstacle faced by your educational institution?

  • Is your educational institution experiencing declining student enrollment?

  • Is your educational institution too preoccupied with immediate issues to develop and implement strategic plans?

  • Is staff and administrator burn-out prevalent within your educational environments?

  • Does your educational institution struggle to manage competing priorities effectively?

A Higher Vision for Student Success

Graduation remains one of higher education's most important outcomes.

But today's students need more than a credential.

They need purpose. They need agency. They need meaningful experiences.

They need the ability to recognize opportunity, make informed decisions, and adapt throughout their lives.

Preparing students for that future requires more than individual initiatives. It requires intentionally designing educational experiences where learning, advising, career development, planning, student support, work-based learning, technology, and employer partnerships reinforce one another.

Students don't experience an organizational chart. They experience one educational journey.

Turning Vision Into Sustainable Practice

Synergy helps colleges design educational experiences that connect learning, advising, career development, student support, and opportunity.

We partner with institutional leaders and teams to strengthen practices and processes, implement meaningful ideas, learn from experience, and continuously improve. This work is supported through executive coaching, professional learning, and evaluation.

Educational Experience Design

Helping institutions clarify vision, priorities, and implementation.

Professional Learning and Executive Coaching

Building the confidence and capability needed to sustain change.

Implementation, Evaluation, and Continuous Improvement

Turning meaningful ideas into lasting institutional practice.

Navigating Educational Challenges: Strategies For Success

Refining Advising and Career Development

Turning meaningful ideas into lasting institutional practice.

Meet Mike Buccilli

For more than twenty years, Mike has partnered with colleges, universities, systems, foundations, and national organizations to strengthen educational experiences through thoughtful implementation, organizational learning, and institutional capability. His work is grounded in a simple belief: higher education has the opportunity to prepare students not only for graduation, but for lives of opportunity.

Let's Start a Conversation

Every meaningful partnership begins with listening. Whether you're exploring a new idea or strengthening work already underway, I'd welcome the opportunity to learn about your institution and the future you're working to create.

What Makes Us Different?

Synergy staff have experience leading program design and implementation in the education and workforce sectors. Our track record includes launching and sustaining programs by leveraging resources outside regular funding streams to actualize college and career success programs that work. Additionally, we have relationships with key stakeholders in state and federal government, philanthropy, community-based non-profits, and post-secondary education. We will bring key stakeholders to the table during the design process and build programs that leverage the strengths of each partner.

Synergy staff have extensive experience with the design, implementation, and sustainability of community college success programs. Our programs have been recognized nationally for increasing student persistence and retention and for closing equity gaps among historically underserved populations.

What Our Clients Are Saying…

Building educational experiences that prepare students for a lifetime of opportunity.

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