Jean Synodinos is an independent consultant with 19 years of experience helping good organizations do great things. With a background in strategic communication and social marketing, she has expanded her work in recent years to include strategic planning and meeting facilitation. She provides realistic, customized, and actionable solutions to organizations big and small—from local nonprofits to federal agencies including several divisions of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
A passionate trainer, Jean has conducted over 120 highly-rated trainings to over 5,500 participants nationwide. Her expertise has garnered her invitations to present at national conferences for the U.S. Department of Education, the National Dropout Prevention Center, and CADCA (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America).
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AREAS OF FOCUS
- Strategic planning to identify organizational priorities
- Strategic communication planning and execution
- Mission and vision statement development
- Values-based message development
- Social marketing campaign planning and execution
- Data-driven story development to move hearts and minds
- Communicating data effectively to any audience
- Audience identification and formative research
- Policymaker education and advocacy
- Materials development
- Public speaking
- Values-based organizational branding
REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS & CLIENTS
Strategic Planning
- Clean Air Partners, Washington, DC
- Pennsylvania System of Care (PA CARE Partnership)
- Metropolitan Washington Air Quality Committee
Communication Planning, Coaching, Training and Technical Assistance
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative and National Center on Youth Violence Prevention and Mental Health Promotion
- Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Youth Violence Prevention Training and Technical Assistance Center
- CDC Division of Community Health (Community Transformation Grants and Partnerships to Improve Community Health)
- Georgia Health Policy Center
- Pennsylvania Allegheny Intermediate Unit 3 (Division of Special Education Services)
- Center for Applied Research Solutions
Keynote Addresses & Conference Sessions
- World Social Marketing Conference
- SAMHSA Safe Schools/Healthy Students annual conferences
- CDC Youth Violence Prevention Initiative annual meetings
- U.S. Department of Education Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools
- Community Anti-Drug Coalition of American
- Iowa Department of Education Safe & Supportive Schools
- Colorado LAUNCH Together (Early Milestones Colorado)
- Georgia Health Policy Center
- Alabama Project LAUNCH
- Community of Care Network of Kansas
Campaign Development and Execution
- The Walmart Foundation National Retail Challenge (Baltimore and Chicago)
- National Library of Medicine’s Women’s Health Resources Center
- CDC’s Agency of Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures
- Mental Health Services Administration of New York City’s Managing Stress in an Uncertain Economy
Jean lives in her adopted hometown of Austin, TX with her partner and their incorrigible dog. For more than 20 years, Jean performed as an award-winning singer-songwriter*. She is a painter and is also hard at work on her first novel. From 2013-2020, her favorite hour of the week was spent at the Travis County Correctional Center where she taught guitar and songwriting to incarcerated men and women as a means of non-violent self-expression. Jean is a graduate of Duke University.
*Fun fact: In a rare linkage of passions, Jean composed and produced the music for Show Me How, a video promoting SAMHSA’s Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative which garnered a 2010 Ava Platinum Award for Best Original Music.
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